I was the typical teen/early 20's for the UK at the time (~2000) and while I didn't drink during the week I drank to *oblivion* at the weekend - every weekend.
I went out one weekend (6pm saturday) when I was 27 and got so drunk that I didn't remember anything from 9:30pm til ~5PM on the Sunday - Scared the shit out of myself and resolved to never get drunk again - everyone who knew me said "yeah right, see you in the pub on Saturday" but I stuck to it.
I didn't have a drink at all for the next decade and these days I have 1 or 2 a handful of times a year (and raise a glass of scotch to my grandfathers every Christmas) - haven't been drunk or had a hangover in 15 years.
> Any tips on cutting out something completely and how to get out of just hating yourself when you fail?
Failing is part of life, the trick is to accept your failure and then move on to not repeating it - otherwise you get into a loop of "try, fail, be dispirited, continue to fail, try <repeat>" - basically be kind to yourself and remember that everyone struggles with something.
I went out one weekend (6pm saturday) when I was 27 and got so drunk that I didn't remember anything from 9:30pm til ~5PM on the Sunday - Scared the shit out of myself and resolved to never get drunk again - everyone who knew me said "yeah right, see you in the pub on Saturday" but I stuck to it.
I didn't have a drink at all for the next decade and these days I have 1 or 2 a handful of times a year (and raise a glass of scotch to my grandfathers every Christmas) - haven't been drunk or had a hangover in 15 years.
> Any tips on cutting out something completely and how to get out of just hating yourself when you fail?
Failing is part of life, the trick is to accept your failure and then move on to not repeating it - otherwise you get into a loop of "try, fail, be dispirited, continue to fail, try <repeat>" - basically be kind to yourself and remember that everyone struggles with something.