Originally Posted by
dwtbd 
The only thing worth doing with drinking is eradicating it. Remove it completely from your life, cease and desist. Replacing it connotes a place holding, as in if any place holders are removed a space reopens and drinking is a viable candidate as a 'hole stuffer'.
This is a fantastic analysis as seen through the lens of AVRT, if I may say so, dwtbd. The Beast was born of drink itself, and thus has a spiritual problem, which requires strong spirits to correct. It lives to drink, and nothing will fill the hole in ITS soul left by the removal of that life-giving alcohol.