Yup it’s a great way to do things.
Ive taken the odd month off here and there previously. Mainly when I was getting too thirsty for my own good.
5 days in, no worries at all, meds seem to be doing their thing, best bit is my sleep quality is amazing!
Dude good luck! I can share where I'm coming from, not to talk about myself but maybe it helps you!
In my last semester of University I started training for a full contact kickboxing competition. Cannot do sparring when you've had some beers the night before. Even hitting a heavybag will rattle your brain from the impact ever so slightly that it's not good. So in like 6 months I only got drunk 3 times. mostly went to all the student-parties without drinking, because the kickboxing was more important to me. Ever since then I can go to parties without drinking, if I have to.
I would never dare to just drink 1 beer alone at home or sth like that (exception: once a year if an upset stomach wants beer or so I would drink it more like a medicine. or on hiking trips also for refueling).
I would always go either 0 or 100% with anything, so I'll never go there with booze. I would be mortally afraid to be in the same room with coke for the same reason.
And I always think: what's the point of drinking just a little bit. makes me slow and still have a hangover next day. Either full power blackout drinking, best with absinth, or just drink a sprite and be polite.
I have found the 100% drinking to be boring, maybe since the early 30s. At least for me, all drinking+partying nights were sort of the same: you wake up horribly hungover, can't remember anything about the night, all the money in the wallet is gone and for days people will tell you where you wipped your dick out.