Neuro plasticity is proof positive that it will lessen, if not go away completely. But, as you say, if it does rear it’s ugly head from time to time, so what, it has NO POWER over you, nor me. Therein lies the power to stop drinking, realising that the craving/obsession to drink is simply the biological Addictive Voice in the brain, it is powerless and cannot raise a can or glass to our mouths if ‘we’ the ‘mind that’s in control’ don’t want to.