If you're sobercurious and interested in quitting alcohol for a specific time period or forever, you may be wondering how to get started. The obvious answer is "quit drinking", but the real answer is more complicated than that.

If you’re among the sober-curious, you might be wondering what it feels like to detox from alcohol. Regardless of what you’ve heard, here are some real answers from real people who are in recovery and have conquered that first week of alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

Gone are the days of boarding a “cancer coffin” for a flight to France. Just like with tobacco, we’re finally getting a ton of data and research showing how harmful alcohol really is. It’s surprising that it’s taken this long for it to become common knowledge.

Yes, there’s that initial crash after a dose of booze. That hard, deep sleep a bear couldn’t wake you out of. Then that wears off, and you’re left tossing and turning the rest of the night. Parched, nasty-tasting mouth, restless.