For me doing a course on mindful meditation helped as well as a lot of exercise.

The other major thing is time and that is part of what makes it so hard.

When you are drinking you lose the ability to experience pleasure or feel normal without a drink.

The paradox is that it takes time for that to come back but it is so easy to give in to temptation early on that is easy to keep ending back at that zero level and it turns into a vicious circle.