This is a practical guide to giving up alcohol and living a happier and healthier life and is written by a qualified counsellor and therapist who is himself a recovering alcoholic. Beauchamp Colclough, known to all his patients and friends as "Beechy", draws on his own experiences and those of his patients, to take the reader through the various stages of recovery, recognizing the need for change and outlining the steps which make it possible. There is no easy way to stop drinking - but this book offers the effective way which has worked for Colclough and many of his patients.