Most of us have experienced the relief of that first glass of wine after a stressful day.

It can ease us into our evening routine of cooking dinner and looking after the family.

But what about when a harmless glass of wine becomes two, three or four?

It is surprising easy to slip into bad habits with drinking. One in six British women are developing health problems caused by alcohol and nearly a quarter (24 per cent) admitted in an NHS survey in 2012 that they had drunk more than twice the lower-risk guidelines in the previous week.

The Government guidelines for drinking for women are two to three units a day, a maximum of 21 per week, for women.

One standard-size glass of wine alone equates to 2.3 units.

And there are serious health implications as well with around 15 per cent of breast cancer cases linked to alcohol and one in six UK women developing some sort of health problem associated with drinking, while liver disease deaths have risen 20 per cent in a decade.

KELLY Jackson, 26, from Basildon, knows how easy it is to slip into bad drinking habits.

She writes a blog titled Confessions of a Sober Essex Girl about her attempts to cut out alcohol in January.

She currently consumes no alcohol units a week, but prior to cutting out the booze she would drink around 22 units per week.

Kelly says: “My biggest temptation to drink has always been when I get in from work on a Friday night and I have a glass of wine.

“It’s usually when I sit down to blog and I enjoy a drink at that time so I can unwind.”

However, Kelly found her drinking habits escalated and she was drinking more and more.

“I used to get through one or two bottles of Prosecco, but that would be drunk in one night.”

Kelly decided enough was enough last January when she gave up alcohol and started the blog.

“I wanted to stop drinking and by blogging about it, it kept me on the straight and narrow. I have continued blogging throughout the year and I have 50,000 Twitter followers who follow the blog.

It’s obviously touched on something that affects a lot of women.

“I only write about giving up alcohol once a year, but those posts are very popular.

I have started video blogging now too, so I can’t really be drunk while I’m doing that.”

Although Kelly says that she and her friends don’t go out a lot, they are still in danger of going over the alcohol limits.

She says: “It is easy to get into the habit of drinking every night when you get in from work. It becomes second nature and you crave it.

“Me and my friends don’t really go out on boozy nights out anymore we are more likely to go and visit each other for some wine.

However, when we totted it up we found that we were all over the recommended guidelines on alcohol.”

Last year Kelly could not resist one last binge before she went teetotal.

“On Boxing Day I was so hungover I didn’t make it to my mum’s for dinner. I didn’t even realise – I was ill and I just slept right through. I realised then enough was enough.

“It’s weird, but when you don’t drink at all you don’t crave it. If you’re trying to lose weight, the alcohol calories do really add up.”

Kelly finds it hard to fit a social life around not drinking.

“When I stop drinking, I also stop socialising, so I haven’t yet found a happy medium.

“But when I do start drinking again in February, I will be more aware of savouring the drink and cutting down overall.”

‘It is easy to get into the habit of drinking every night when you get in from work I missed Boxing Day dinner round Mum’s...I knew enough was enough."