Five ways to find your healthy balance

Whatever a sustainable relationship with alcohol looks like for you, here are some resources that may help

1 Drinkaware

The premise is simple: log your units and be alerted when your day or weekly totals could be affecting your health. You can monitor trends, set goals and even define locations where you’re at risk of binge drinking, so the app can remind you of your current goals, thus increasing your willpower. Free; drinkaware.co.uk

2 Sober Girl Society

The online community was founded by 30-year-old Millie Gooch, who decided to go sober after she realised how her boozy Friday nights were robbing her of her weekends. Join the club @sobergirlsociety or pick up her book for practical advice to help you embrace a life less boozy. The Sober Girl Society Handbook (£14.99, Transworld)

3 Reframe

Whether you’re looking to reduce your drinking or remove it from your life completely, this app employs neuroscience and CBT principles to help you get there. As well as in-app journalling, you get daily tasks to help boost your cognitive health and visuospatial games to play when cravings hit. From £5.50 per month; reframeapp.com

4 Club Soda

Worried about the effect on your social life? Club Soda signposts to IRL and online events where you can mix with other people choosing the dry(er) life. Bonus: these guys know their stuff when it comes to alcohol-free drinks; expect to upgrade your Beck’s Blue stash. Free to join, but prices for courses and events vary; joinclubsoda.com

5 Tempest

Personalisation is the watchword of this service, which bills itself as: ‘online alcohol treatment that fits into your life’. Once you’ve taken a quiz to work out how alcohol is impeding your life, you can take Tempest’s Foundations course. This combines evidencebased treatment methods, live expert coaching and peer support with a view to laying down a base for an ethanol-free life. From £30 per month; jointempest.com