Originally Posted by
nimeton 
it's kind of scarey that I even think about drinking considering I know I'm better off without it.
Scary yeah, but it is also kind of natural in a way. I don't know your drinking history but I know with me I used alcohol to de-stress, celebrate, drown my sorrows... it was all I ever knew. I saw my cravings or any thoughts that I missed alcohol as a conditioned response. When I looked at it that way it didn't freak me out that much that I thought about drinking quite a lot. AVRT helped with this same problem too.