| 1 | I have decided to cut out smoking and drinking. | |
| 2 | His doctor advised him to forbear from alcohol. | |
| 3 | After much difficulty, he contrived to stop drinking! | |
| 4 | In the temperance question, Mr White takes his stand on total abstinence. | |
| 5 | Such periods of abstinence were regularly punctuated with periods of alcohol abuse. |