Noteven, sorry I misinterpreted you. Sorry. 
Dubs Yesterday I was a dry drunk. That was such a thought provoking article. Will come back to read again. Thanks, that is going to really help me.
It seems to me, many of the babes who have kept to abstinence (I have to) have found AA the most effective long term solution, but I don?t have a Burqa. Sounds factitious and I know there?s a clue in the title but still wimping out of that bareness.
Mouse, I was anxious yesterday, thank you for your offer. If I come and sit next to you I might have cried. Not good with kindness when vulnerable. Full of beans today though 
It's so liberating not feeling guilty, ashamed and deceitful.
Loopy, I was drinking during the day, at 3 am if I woke up and there was any left. Sometimes I would drink ½ bottle of vodka a day and my warped mind would whisper a carton of V8 to dilute it could be one of my 5 a day. I would end up mixing it with anything. Not milk.
I stopped and felt lightheaded around lunchtime for a few days, very very tired and irritable. But follow wise advice to go to GP if feasible.
Someone here recently used the term ?recalibrate?. I found that very apt.
Shake I paid for my Allan Carr stop smoking with clubcard points. Don?t know if an option. But 5 weeks worth of alcohol is a lot of £££. Any way I hit a point 5 months later, where I could justify a cigarette in my head and hey ho 20 red Marlboro were back in my repertoire of destruction before the end of the week.
(And still there. Deal with what is killing you quickest. I do have to focus on that next though.)
To be truthful this is my biggest fear with drinking, a self fulfilling prophesy of failing.
Cidre about a year ago I went to a D A unit. I filled out a questionnaire and truthfully answered questions, though didn?t offer any additional info. Because I wasn?t suffering any of the physical effects and was an ?effective? worker, I think they took me as a total lightweight and didn?t really follow me up.
I have crossed over 3 weeks. I always get wobbly with stopping cigarettes around 3s, day 3, week 3 and very rarely 3 months, why?
I feel so much better in every way, though no thinner, e.g. my pee is pale yellow not a dirty ochre (tmi? 
) I can confidently pick up the phone, I wake up in my pyjamas, I sleep through the night, my children have stopped asking ?mummy are you feeling alright?? and ?I told you that, don?t you remember?? ... 
Hope everyone is managing with what they want to do. And big welcome to new passengers.