Put the bottle down OP.
I'm currently 3 years sober after going through 1-2 handles of vodka a weekend for 10 years. It's hard to fully express the positive effect it's had.

Being able to wake up early in the morning on my weekends instead of staying in bed hungover is a real blessing. Food tastes better, and i dropped 100 pounds without changing anything else about my lifestyle. My days off feel lived in now instead of just drinking them away before the next work week.

And if you need some kind of substance abuse in your life a cigar outside on a cloudy day once in a blue moon is very relaxing. I'm not much of a nicotine person outside of that so i imagine it's less impacful if you already smoke.