The biggest uplift I felt when I stopped drinking was around my physical health. First, I remembered what I did the night before when I woke up (HUGE), my mouth wasn’t chronically dry, my hands stopped shaking (oh yeah I drank a lot), I didn’t smell like booze (yeah…a LOT) and I had energy to do stuff. I even bought a road bike to get around campus and loved going uphill (crazy, right?).