The desire to drink wasn't lifted for me until maybe a year? It has nothing to do with being ready to stop. Don't listen to that bs. Someone said that to me early on "maybe your not ready yet and you should go back and drink some more". I found that a pretty hateful thing to say to a person.
But it was lifted. Just hang in there. Keep doing what your doing and just don't drink.
To make you laugh, when I hit 5 years, I thought I was going to be let into the secret where we get to drink to celebrate. How crazy is that? So I think some of that insanity stays with us