Actually, I found when I gave up alcohol exactly the same as I had found when giving up smoking some years before [for the record, my last small cigar was smoked on 3 April 1975]:- ie that the pleasure of having shaken off any dependency on the addictive habit far surpassed any pleasure I had ever derived from practising it. Being a non-smoking abstainer I find a constant positive and triumphant delight.

This is not intended as any sort of universal law; merely a statement of what now works for me, and has brought me well into my 80s. If your mileage varies, then I wish you the best of pleasure & fortune from your addictions & indulgences.

≈M≈