I find it helps if you fess up and tell as many people as you can that you quit. Like that uncle.... So that way they'll know not to give you the stuff, and they won't offer it to you at parties, etc. When I go to parties (ha!...it's been a long time!) I bring my own stuff. Either I bring the fixings for an NA punch (there are tons of recipes on the web) or I bring a bottle of Ame' Delicate White. I buy it in my health food store, but I've seen it elsewhere. It sorta fake wine, but it's not that sparkly cider sweet crud. It's "A refreshing fruit drink with natural Eastern herbal extracts". It's nice to have something to bring that comes in a wine bottle, that I can drink outta a wine glass, so I don't feel so....dorkish. Then the best part happens. Everyone else starts getting tipsy, slurring their words and acting like boneheads. That's sorta fun to watch. Then I imagine how I used to be the drunkest bonehead of them all! Ugly thought .

Anyhow....good luck. Keep up the hard work!

emmy