I have actually been thinking about this a lot recently. Ever since I started on my little journey, my desire to drink has gone down markedly. However, I'm in college and live with 4 other college guys and of course they drink, so its hard to avoid it completely. I still go out with them to the bars sometimes (maybe once a week or so), but the next day I always semi-regret it. I don't like the hangovers, obviously, but I also feel more disconnected with myself and others after drinking. There is a kind of a haze that fills my mind the next day after I drink, that I have grown to dislike since starting on my spiritual path. I suspect that I will continue drinking with my college friends until I graduate and move on, at which point I probably won't drink very often at all. However, I hope to go to graduate school after I graduate, and if there is one thing I have learned from my sister, it is that graduate students enjoy drinking almost as much as undergraduates. So, I guess I'll see what happens 