Went to Rehab for 5 months. Dreamed of drinking every day I was there.
Got kicked out (long story) and made a decision to never, ever seek sobriety ever again. I had "ceased fighting" alcohol. Accepted my fate and surrendered my expectations.
One millisecond later, all thoughts, temptation and attraction towards alcohol was removed from my mind root and branch. Haven't thought about drinking or not-drinking since.
Sound like a miracle? Darn right it was.
Sound like I am the only one to experience it? It was described in the Big Book over 60 years before I experienced it:
" We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition."
(page 85)