No need for me to repeat what has been said already.
I got to the stage where I felt I was beginning to drink too much and I tried cutting down or short spells of abstinence but ultimately you will never give up an addiction such as alcohol until you really want to. Even when I had liver inflammation and was told to abstain for two months I only managed to stay off the drink for six weeks. The turning point for me was when my father becam terminally ill from gullet cancer and died at the age of 85. When I asked the doc the next morning how come a life long teetotaller dies of a drinker's illness he said that if you live that long something in your genetics will catch you. Big fright for me, the last thing I want is to precipitate a genetic trait killing me prematurely by giving it encouragement. I knew when I walked away from the hospital that morning in March 2004 that I would quit drink. I got very drunk immediately after my father's funeral and promised myself that would be my last drink. Over the next few months I had several "last" drinks. I eventually tried Allan Carr's Easyway which is a popular method for quitting tobacco but has also been proven to work for alcohol and heroin addictions and changes your attitude to why you wanted that drink. My periods of abstention gradually extended and I finally quit the booze on 6th January 2005. I've never regretted my decision.