Perhaps cutting alcohol altogether isn’t the best strategy at first. Try reducing from your current intake. After decades of drinking issues here and there, what helped me what something I got from the book Atomic Habits.

I thought, “What kind of person do I want to be as it relates to alcohol?” Do I want to be someone who has 1-2 drinks with friends? Yes. Do I want to be someone who needs a drink at the end of the day to unwind? No.

Alcohol is a poison and not healthy for the body in any way. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for it in society. What kind of person do you want to be as it relates to alcohol?