To further clarify (past time limit to edit): I recognize fully that I may have no choice to stop 100%. Part of me, which may in fact be pure addictive voice, cannot fully accept that there is not a spectrum of agency. There may not be for an addict like me who's been developing the twice-a-week habit for 10 years. But that does not necessarily imply a pure schism exists in all of us when it comes to pleasure-seeking situations.
I can easily see how a dissociative technique like this works powerfully. I just worry about the becoming kind of person who lives that way in many things. The anecdote about slamming the phone down on the previous poster for joking about being in" a meeting" might clarify that a little.