Hi Aspieman, I recommended you exploring Mindfullness, in that, I learnt it years ago (amongst other methods and programs) during my long battle to combat my alcohol addiction. I didn't stop drinking with Mindfullness, but we are all different and many people do. As Aleric said, Mindfullness is effectively "Urge Surfing", which many folks on SR use to deal with cravings for their drug of choice. Other folks use "playing the tape forward".
As a consequence of my prior experience of Mindfullness (we are not our habituated thoughts - but the higher part of the brain that experiences those thoughts and their attendant cravings, urges, feelings) when I discovered AVRT here in Secular on SR, it immediately resonated with me. In my experience, it's beneficial to investigate a variety of stop using methods, until you find one that works for you. So yes, Mindfullness is a positive step forwards in your quest, but I don't want to mislead you into thinking that I applied it to stop drinking.