I am not sure if I picked a quit date or it picked me. I kept putting it off and putting it off then one night, I got up enough courage to call a detox unit and they got me in the next day. So, I drank that night and then got sober. I am not sure I could have made it another night of drinking--I was just too sick and depressed.

Cool that you were sober for 5 years! That is longer than I have ever stayed clean and sober.