At what age did you know you needed to quit

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36. I haven’t picked up a drink in the 20 years since.

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I knew at 21, but couldn’t quit until 30.

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Now - 26

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34; entered rehab at 36. Had a one day relapse 9 months in, now a month away from one full year of sobriety.

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I don’t know until a judge pointed it out to me. I was 22 then and I’ve been clean and sober for 33 years.

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18 and was lucky enough to quit at 20

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I knew at 28 and went to my first AA meeting at 30. I’m celebrating 3 years sober next month 🙏🏻

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I quit at 25 for 3.5 years with no program knowing I would Mess up law school if I kept going the way I was;
Folks - including my secretary - were having “the talk” with me. Got talked into drinking when I graduated and then spent 14 years messing up my life and career until I figured I’d try anything to change. One night into that experiment I knew i needed to stop. 876 days later- it was the best thing I ever did.

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Three decades prior to actually doing something about it.

I knew very early in my drinking career that alcohol was different for me than for other people but I kept skating by with no serious consequences so I kept going. I finally woke up after watching alcohol destroy too many others around me and decided I could close that door at any time.

The biggest dumb revelation for me was that you don’t have to hit a bottom to stop drinking!

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I didn’t “know” that I needed to quit until I was already a month into sobriety... I was 34 and didn’t want to quit, I just wanted to “control” it; turns out, if I’m an alcoholic I can never consistently control it, and it’ll just continue to get worse over time. Grateful I found recovery when I did, and it’s never too soon or too late.

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I don’t know If I knew I needed to quit until I went to my first AA meeting. For me it wasn’t age as much as what I was doing. Going from wine to vodka to more vodka and more vodka. Hands shaking in the morning. Falling and hurting myself. Doing some extremely embarrassing things at work. Spending two days of my honeymoon in bed I was so hungover. I went to my first meeting 5 days after my 30th birthday and will have 12 years in January. I know someone who go sober at 16 and someone who got sober at 72. When you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired is the right time.

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Knew at 19, quit at 26.

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34 and probably should have known sooner, but was just a smidge self absorbed to figure it out. Working on 9 years sober now.

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39

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Knew at 39 and quit at 46 and now 6 years sober on 12/14🥰

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Realized it at 21, avoided dealing with it (unseccessfully) and finally quit at 28

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