Congrats Tasty!
I too want to say that I quit cold turkey using the AVRT Crash Course and reading a few books. I did not discover SR until many months in. Once I found out that I had the power, I simply stopped drinking. Mind you, I drank seven days a week for three decades.
Now, when I have a random drinking thought, I recognize it as my AV and I just tell it no, and it retreats. It will become much easier as your AV recognizes that it is no longer in control of your life.
This on line crash course probably saved my life. I recognized that I would not be one to go the AA and daily meeting route. Whatever works to get one to quit is the best method. But for me, AVRT made sense and the last 17 months I have been alcohol free have been the best 17 months of my life!