As shown in Fig. 3, the likelihood of transition to abstention increased as a function of age among all baseline categories except infrequent drinkers, indicating that current drinkers were most likely to stop drinking in older age. Interestingly, despite participants within the heaviest baseline drinking categories (men: > 250.0 g/week; women: > 100.0 g/week) exhibiting the greatest rates of decline in mean consumption with increasing age (Fig. 1), the probability of transition to non‐drinking remained consistently low across the adult life‐course.
