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Drug and alcohol treatment centers are experienced in detox treatment. Detoxing on your own can be fatal so go to treatment so they can help you survive the experience. 

This is very hard to do but I admire the fact that you realize you have a problem with it. I quit drinking 16 years ago. I dont remember exactly how I did it but one important thing to do is to distance yourself from your drinking friends and drinking environments. Once you reunite with them or the places you will be tempted to drink again. I had to 'give up' my drinking friends and it was hard but most of them were just that, DRINKING friends, not real ones.

Another thing is that if you have a problem with drinking, you CANNOT drink 'socially' meaning "Ill have just one or two" at a wedding, party, etc. You will slip into drinking problems again.

Probable the best thing is to wean yourself off. make a calender and 'allot' yourself a certain number of drinks a day and reduce the number every couple of days until you reach one a day for a few days then stop. Stop for good and resist temptation. Dont go back to the same drinking lifestyle and what I mentioned  above. Congrats on realizing the problem and GOOD LUCK!