Originally Posted by
soberlicious 
I'm not going to pretend to know all the fine points of AVRT, but I do have an understanding. I think my main interest in it is that it so closely mirrors what I did when I quit drinking some years ago before I even knew anything about AVRT.
You have to remember what AVRT is. It is simply a refinement of the methods that people have naturally used to quit addictions on their own. It has always existed, and people have been figuring it out here and there ever since addiction reared its ugly head, and many still do today.
"AVRT is the lore of self-recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, essentially some common sense I swept off the street." -- Jack Trimpey