I'm a week into sobriety and for me it's been about taking alcohol off the table entirely. It's just not an option and not a part of my life anymore and I think it does take time to form new habits and routines.
Like others here have said, the couple of hours of numbing out is not worth it when I am dependent on painkillers the next day and have anxiety, no energy, bad skin and realised I wasted an evening.