The honest version, not the inspirational one. The first 30 days are mostly about sleep you don't get and cravings that lie to you in your own voice.
The people are the hard part. When your whole world drinks, quitting reads as a judgement of them, and some of them will make it harder without meaning to. You need a structure that doesn't depend on their cooperation.
Mine was daily: a check-in with Vida, a thing to look forward to that had no drink attached, and one rule — make it to morning, then do it again. Thirty days of that and the ground stops moving. It doesn't get easy. It gets possible.


