Have a hook to hang it all on, one that makes sense to you

It can be a complicated business trying to balance all your needs and commitments with a good waterproof plan that stops you drinking.

Try to have one overarching thought, one belief, one little sentence that sums up why you're not drinking.

Something like:

• Drinking alcohol just makes everything worse, it solves no problems, it's just like pouring petrol on a fire
• Not drinking gives me the best chance of everything turning out well
• Drinking has caused me so much grief that it's never worth risking anything that'll put it near me
• Drinking has caused so much damage that I must never listen to any voices that try to persuade me to have a drink
• “After a night out, I nodded off for a few seconds on the back of my then boyfriend's motorbike. That's when it hit home that me and booze needed to rethink our relationship.”¹

For example, look at this list of 'simple reasons to kick addictions', but make up your own.

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