I am 46 and do not have ins. , but I want to stop once and for all. I tried to quit for the first time about a year ago, to find out the realality of alcohol withdrawls. My mother was an alcoholic and eventually died from it. I truely thought it was only a mental thing, (failing to deal with my father leaving her for one of her freinds after 25yrs. of marriage). I never really knew what she went thru until it happened to me and I have been scared, ashamed, and many other feelings so I haven`t tried to quit since then. If I had the truth about alcohol, I don`t think I would have been so eager to drink. I allways thought that heroin and those types of drugs carried these kind of penalties, but it turns out alcohol is far worse. Their needs to be better info out their for eveyone, we all thought in the begining of our drinking days that alcohol was not that bad because it was legal. Despite drinking about a pint a day I have managed to keep my job and career, but it`s getting harder. I can feel the negative effects on my body, and it is affecting my marriage. I know that I need to something now, I feel like I`m running out of time. If someone could muster the willpower to weane themself to reduce the withdrawls, how fast or slow would have to be?