Originally Posted by
yeahgr8 
You obviously have a very different experience to most of us!
Most of us promised ourselves to stop drinking many, many times and failed to keep that promise...but we kept waking up and saying this time it will be different, i will succeed whilst making no changes whatsoever to our "plan of change"...it's called insanity...some of us only recognised we had done this once we got help and got sober, so the last thing that we would need to here is "this time you can do it" or "just stop drinking" and all that BS!
If you have woken up one morning and stopped drinking on willpower alone then all power to you but that "road to recovery" won't help most people...that's what is being implied here...
Posts like these just drone on and on... and make no sense. Why do people continue to ignore the #'s? It is documented that (and it cuts across recovery methods) the majority of those successful at getting sober once and for all do it with a long-term commitment to abstinence.
And this is a
paradigm shift in thinking... that is why and how it works.