I quit drinking a million times, like everyone else. What I eventually found out was that I had bad self-esteem from childhood and an inaccurate vision of who I was, and that was blocking me from evicting alcohol as a means to self-medicate.
I never really liked alcohol — not the taste of it, and especially not the hangover as I got older.
In the end, when I committed to something I did not think was possible, the running, and was able to accomplish what I thought was impossible, it completely changed my belief system. It fixed the self-esteem problems entirely. The self-esteem fix fixed the depression. And the focus on running provided a life purpose, which had been missing as well.
Couple that with finding the right people to surround myself with, and the natural high I got from endurance made the choice to stop completely easy. Alcohol only took away from it.
Lastly, I got rid of all the people and things in my life that were a trigger. You may have to isolate yourself and evict everyone for a time to do this process correctly. It has to stick — meaning it is not temporary, it is a life change. It was a perfect storm of factors that all came together to correct my mindset.