Regular drinking can lead to cirrhosis because alcohol and its metabolite acetaldehyde have toxic effects that can cause liver damage and can lead to alcoholic hepatitis, which can then progress to alcoholic cirrhosis. Generally drinking 80g of alcohol per day or more for 10 years and 40g of alcohol per day or more for 20 years can cause alcoholic cirrhosis. Alcoholic cirrhosis is the main cause of cirrhosis in Europe and the United States. In China, viral hepatitis is the main cause, but alcoholic cirrhosis is also on the rise. Patients with alcoholic cirrhosis can no longer develop into decompensated cirrhosis or develop various serious complications if they can avoid alcohol in time so that the degree of cirrhosis no longer progresses and the lesions tend to be quiescent. Compared with viral hepatitis or other causes of hepatitis, the prognosis is generally better and the survival period is relatively longer.