LifeIsGood,
It's true that the first four days or so are bad, but don't let that discourage you. Just attribute all "craving" to IT, the Beast, and go do something else, anything else. If you haven't already done so, get a copy of the Rational Recovery book, and take the free AVRT crash course at the RR web site. Since you have some days off, you can read the book then, but do it when you are neither drunk nor hung over. You need to be clearheaded in order to understand what you read, and decisions to never drink again made while hung over rarely stick.
Set a deadline for making a Big Plan, such as after you finish reading the crash course and the book, but don't put it off for too long, though. Then, just set your confidence level arbitrarily at 100%, recognize anything that contradicts your Big Plan, and all self-doubt about being able to stick to it, as the Addictive Voice itself, and you will do fine. If April here can pull it off after some of her shenanigans, I'm sure that you can too.
