@Vermillion-Rx This is part of the human experience, and when it comes from shutting down addictions or deeply ingrained compulsions, you have physiological urges and changes to power through on top of "mere" behavioral ones.

That said, it's a difference of degree and not type, the changes you have to make in this case, compared to the changes men must make in their Red Pill journeys, and other life changes. You'll have to WILL yourself at first, to do other things when you used to normally drink. WILL yourself, to choose other responses to the urges you'd normally satisfy with alcohol.

A psychiatrist said something that stuck with me long ago. "It feels contrived at first, but before long, what felt artificial and contrived just becomes normal."

When I was young in the 80s, I smoked cigarettes for a few years. Tried several times to quit, went through stupid games and workarounds and kept falling back into the habit. Aside from the biochemical nicotine addiction aspect, there were social and habitual aspects of it that had to get broken all at once. What finally worked for me was a deep conviction upon learning certain things tobacco companies were doing against my personal and political values. This time, I kept my pack of cigarettes right in my pocket for 3 days untouched before giving them away to a co-worker. No stupid games, I was DONE, and it stuck that time. Point of this story, don't try to "edge" an addiction by playing silly games around not-really-quitting all the way.