What was the best advice you received on your quitting journey?
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Keep your focus on staying sober in this moment, right now.
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Here’s a small list of the best advice I received at the start of my journey.
Surrender. I can’t do this alone and it’s ok to ask for help.
No matter what don’t pick up. There’s nothing a drink or drug will make better. Even if my ass falls off, I need to pick it up and carry it to a meeting. 
One day at a time and stay in the moment. When I start future tripping, I have to stop and look down at my feet as a reminder.
Keep it simple. I have a tendency to complicate the shit out of everything. All I have to do is go to meetings and follow a few simple suggestions.
Don’t isolate. If I’m not in the mood to go to a meeting, that’s when I need to get my ass in a chair.
Connect with others in recovery. I do that by coming here daily, going to meetings and texting or chatting with other alcoholics and addicts.
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Keep your stick on the ice.
1 is too much, and 1,000 is never enough - so just don’t have that first one. 
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That sometimes you must take it minutt by minutt, hour by hour. One day at a time.
I like it the way @Dazercat say: Im not drinking today, and probably not tomorrow either.
If you take it one day at a time, it doesn’t seem as difficult as saying I’ll never drink again. I’m not going to drink today either.
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All I can control is the present. Stay focused and stay motivated. Remember your why, and focus on that.
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“Keep coming back”
“Meeting makers make it”
“One day at a time”
There are many more!
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It wasn’t so much advice as it was an epiphany. It helped me with quitting smoking 11 years ago and now I’m hoping it will help with drinking. I used to consider a cigarette as insignificant and meaningless. It was a small trifle in a much larger world. One could be gone in an instant and replaced just as quickly, disposable and instant. I destroyed them daily and thought little of it. I realized that in order to have them out of my life, I had to flip that around. It wasnt that cigarettes had power in general. Just the very next one did. That single cigarrette was all-important in my quitting for good. I gave it all the power that it could hold and told myself that I just needed to never have that one single next cigarette. No matter what, I had to avoid it at all cost. If I caved and had that one, I knew I’d be back to a pack a day in a week or so.
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Play the tape forward.
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Abstinence is easier than trying to moderate.
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“Where there is breath, there is life and where there is life, there is always hope”
Someone commented these last two on a post I made in a addiction group on Facebook and I screenshot them as I found them profound
“You don’t have to stop copping dope forever and ever. Just don’t do it today. Yesterday and tomorrow are inconsequential. If you can get through this moment—right now—it’s all you need to do to change your entire life.”
“It’s never too late. If Maya Angelou died when she was 20, she would’ve been known as simply a prostitute and a single mom, and if Malcolm X died when he was 20, he would’ve gone down as just a thief and an addict. Instead, these people went on to change the course of literature and history and it all started with just one day.”
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This journey is never easy, but with time others will come along to ease you thru it