If you think you need to quit drinking you problem need to. If you are losing friends or like you know you need to. First I would say try to ween yourself a bit if at all possible. I tired that like 7 times or so, I was able to quit drinking over a period of of about a week.
If you don’t think you can ween yourself, I strongly recommend going to see your doctor or checking into rehab. People DIE from detoxing off alcohol cold turkey, its normally a heart attack. I have passed out cold during the process several times, across my various times. Again I really want anybody thats really hit bottom with their addiction will try to stop. And sadly you will think about some of the good times when drinking, hell you might have had a good night just recently but now you are here.
I doesnt matter how you got here, or how low you got, bottom sure is a lot lower for some, the important point is your are here, now, today. You are ready or looking into it. I would suggest not to even try until you are ready, I mean if yours is likely to be bad you have my best hope. And prior to starting, I really think you should look at what your root problems are. How did alcohol take over your life and put you here, if thats mentally, or in other parts of your world. It aint going to get better, if you keep drinking it will likely get worse, do you think you need to go lower? I hope your answer is OH HELL NO!!! If it makes you want to cry, you might be ready, but you might at that bottom, the lower you go the tougher its going to be. Remember, its all on you how you got here, and its ALL on you to get out and stay out, or you can do like my dumb ass and waste so many years, and put myself through something close to torture.
Again only when you are ready, even if you are being told to by everybody you have to get set in your mind. Whatever you need to use to find the back bone to do it, find it. Don’t wait until you are in a jail cell, divorced or without a job.
Next is what you have to look forward to……
I’ve had several friends that drink themselves away. Know several that died from liver issues from drinking, but some kept drinking, they were frigging yellow. They knew they were killing themselves and maybe thats what they did. I hope you are able to quit drinking, but you have to know after you walk through this hell, all those old problems will be waiting for you. If you can give your body a week or so sober and trying to recover, it will be better. You haven’t been eating well, am I right? Hell I got where I would eat twice a day, after I had a good buzz, and then a nap, and then repeat, and go to bed drunk. It never ends and that damn drink is your boss, your damn owner, that bottle owns you. Its time