Hi kinzoku and congratulations on 6 months.
I remember being told the adage ' remember when you learnt to cross the road, look right, look left look right again then cross'. We don't think of that every time we cross the road but we have trained ourselves to automatically take precautions before we cross.
Stopping drinking is similar. We arm ourselves with all our 'tools' which work best for us and with time, we automatically bring them out when we have a blip, an urge to drink, which does get less with time, especially if you've kicked it in the butt with your tools before it's had time to try to convince you.