For you particularly, I think the most effective method would be finding a replacement behavior which is healthier/more beneficial for you.
You’ve previously shared on Fluther your experiences with addiction/alcoholism and its not at all unusual for those with an addictive personality to develop another obsession or addiction following their sobriety and abstinence from the original addictive substance.
That’s part of why they so frequently recommend at least “90 meetings for 90 days” for someone recently committing to sobriety
This begins the process of substituting the positive support of meetings and connections forming new friendships for the previous social patterns involved in their addictions.
That type of intensive focus on meetings, etc sometimes looks pretty obsessive and over the top to their friends and family but its substituting healthy obsession for the previously unhealthy habit patterns surrounding their addiction.
Try to find something positive and healthy to substitute for the currently undesirable habit/obsession you’re trying to stop.
Whatever it is, its quite similar to your previously active alcoholism since it arises from the natural tendencies inherent in an addictive personality. If you ask some of your twelve step friends, I think you’ll be surprised by how many of them have had similar patterns and experiences. Hopefully that will be an encouragement for you.