How To Make It Through The Evening Without Drinking

Some tips for making it through ‘the witching hour’.

Every problem drinker knows about ‘the witching hour’. It’s that time when ordinarily you started drinking. Time slows down and you can’t for the life of you remember why you decided not to drink. Before you know it, you’re drinking again.

How the hell do you change this habit? What on Mary’s earth should you do instead?

Before I successfully quit drinking, the witching hour used to stretch out yawning in front of me, and most often I didn’t make it through without opening a bottle of wine. The trick is to take it seriously.

Have a full-blown action plan and don’t underestimate what you’re dealing with.

Here are the different ways I have tried to defeat the witching hour over the years, and how I managed to beat it for good, four years ago.