Good luck to you Toy on giving up alcohol.
After years and years of drinking, 3 DWIs, thousands in fines, lost driver's license and huge speeding tickets, 55 days in a treatment center, I gave up alcohol and hard drugs in 1982 and changed my lifestyle. (Yep 37 yrs ago).
I never gave up weed, so, so much for gateway.
Good luck to you Brother.