What happens when you do develop a bone of temptation?
Is your abstinence based on the absence of desire, only ?
In a lot of your posts you speak of the 'nostalgia' of intoxication and how you beat it or win out.
I'm an avid AVRT'er precisely because my path has to include living comfortably with latent desire, temptation. From my perspective I don't think the desire for booze/intoxication ever vanishes ,completely, heck I think it is sometimes important to 'tease' the desire lest I think the apparent absence of it is the sole reason I choose not to ever drink again.
For me thinking that I will know I won't drink , even loosely based, on the absence of desire doesn't work.
Eliminating desire or fighting desire doesn't work for me, desire is integral to life and beyond my capacity to circumvent, realizing and accepting that has made me able to dismiss it.
None of this is intended to be a gotcha or 'method' message, just a view , from my path, and an observation of the things you relate.