I have found that with drinking comes a certain lifestyle. If you quit the drink but not the lifestyle, you’re gonna have a bad time.
To have any chance at succrss, stepping away from the lifestyle is necessary. That includes all the people, places and things you associate with drinking.
Drinking is, at some point, pleasurable to us, that’s why we do it. So, wanting to drink is inevitable. In some cases, the longer you quit, the more you want to drink. Like with anything you’re quitting, you have to exercise will power, utilize tools and get through the cravings.
The thing that helped me was Changing your Relationship with Alcohol
Changing my relationship helped me no longer crave the drink or the lifestyle.
As for non-alcoholic beer - its the fast track to relapse and plus its empty calories, I wouldn’t touch that.
Quitting it easy, staying quit is hard, but finding a program and working it everyday makes.it possible.