This was me a couple of years ago. I loved red wine. But gradually it changed and I felt my desire to drink it was controlling me. So I stopped, completely.

I’ve never looked back and I feel like a different person (she said nauseatingly), but it is true. Everything has improved.

Until then I drank way too much and I’d been drinking some kind of alcohol since my teens. The biggest thing for me other than my health was I don’t feel I ‘need’ a drink anymore. The doctor said that giving up adds 10 years to your life, well, unless you get run over by a bus.