Originally Posted by
wooforever 
Yes people can do what they have there minds to.
Not Alcoholics
That's what makes it a disease, and that's the difference between "Heavy drinkers" and Alcoholics, is alcoholics can't stop and stay stopped when they try generally speaking. That's why they have programs and AA and stuff. They can go into recovery, but not quit using "will power" it just doesn't work. Alcoholics have a "strange mental twist" where they don't remember even yesterday when it comes to drinking.
We can get help, but "putting our minds to it" is a bad idea since it's "our minds" that make us drink in the first place.
Might seem to be semantics, and I truly apologize, but I felt it was important enough to say something about it.
sorry to "hijack" it's just not true in my experience, I mean it happens sometimes, but cancer miraculously goes into remission sometimes.