I quit drinking several years ago, so Sober October will be extremely easy for me obviously.
I quit drinking, because I was a heavy binge drinker for excessive lengths of time. I suffered withdrawls every time I finished a long binge run. It was affecting my social life, my life at home, draining my bank account and damaging my work performance. I also tried to fight a lot of people for dumb fucking reasons, because I was drunk almost every night and quite a few days a week every week. I also stank of alcohol a lot, and was lax on my hygiene. It was a good call to give up the liquor that I loved way too much...and depended on almost constantly.