Hi @WAwinelover and welcome to the forum!
I haven't had alcohol addiction before, quitting smoking twice is it for me. I might be off the mark because of lack of experience with alcohol (and def no judgement here) but I had a few thoughts about it. One idea is maybe to schedule something in the time that you'd usually have a drink. Maybe something nice for you that's relaxing and then see if you can extend it that way. I know when I gave up cigarettes I didn't use the word quit. I'd just say to myself that it didn't matter if I had a smoke tomorrow but just for today I'm not going to. That happened a few days straight and then it became a bit more about willpower because I could see that I'd made it through one day, two days, three days etc. I still didn't face it as something I was quitting. I think maybe because if I thought of it as quitting it was a pass/fail thing.
Maybe you could use a nice activity for delaying having the drink. If you focus on the time of having a drink it might make things harder because you'll be clock watching. This idea might not help at all, it's just an idea.
Another thing as others have suggested is to maybe see if you can get some professional help around this to make it easier and have support. I'm not sure of the supports for this but you can call the SANE help centre on the number at the top of this page and they can offer support and places that you may be able to get support.
Good luck with it and good job 👏 on posting here, it's a hard thing to do and a great start.
