Giving up drinking?
'The best thing for you is to give up drinking.' 'Yeah.. What's the next best thing?' - Anon.
Had to chuckle when I read this. My sponsor told me to change 'EVERYTHING' and it wasn't all about the drinking.
What I did learn was that I needed to quit, just for today, not for ever, not for a month, 90 days, a year, but one day at a time.
Found that drink took me to other things, places, and to people that were not healthy for me. So if I gave up drink, a lot of those other things were no longer in my life. Certainly the people didn't want me to be there if I didn't drink. They didn't want me to admit to a problem, because if I had one, then they might need to look at their own drinking, so best I leave and they can stay in their denial.
Just for today, I choose not to drink. It is an inanimate object until such a time as I choose to ingest it.
