I've been drinking for 10 years, sometimes I overdrink, I go from weekends to Tuesdays (I work in a pizzeria 4 days a week). Not married and don't want to, don't want a family. I don't want anything, I want to live a life of pleasure, and I get pleasure from drinking, I don't want to give it up. My colleague told me that it gets easier after the fourth stage. She had the third stage, her craving was increasing, then she didn't drink for a year and she went to the fourth stage and after that she could go to the fifth stage and now she drinks for exactly 48 hours a week, then she stops and works. Has anyone been through to stage five? Do you have to endure a whole year? I'd like to get it right away.