I used to love drinking. Especially nice red wines or super fruity IPAs (I know, I know…). The flavours and experience of enjoying these things with a nice meal or whatever is still one of my favourite things in the right circumstances.

I got a fitness tracker which shows just how bad an impact even one drink has on my sleep, and I’ve really cut down to maybe once or twice a week, and well under the maximum recommended units (think 2-4 beers a week), or just go weeks without drinking at all now. Really made me recognise how much I was previously drinking and it’s rather insane how normal drinking every day seems to people, including me when I was doing it. I was probably doing a bottle of wine a day or equivalent and that’s really not cricket when it comes to health.

Thankfully for me I never had an addiction (though definitely a had habit!), but for those who do, the culture here must be very hard to deal with.