Originally Posted by
soberlicious 
Well, as you pointed out before, TU, AVRT is based on what people who are self-recovered had done. Although it would be hard to document, I would imagine this technique is very, very old...people have probably been doing this in a similar fashion since the beginning of time. That seems to indicate that it does work and can work for anyone who chooses to apply it. Just my thoughts.
That's precisely correct. People have been using similar methods for a very long time, well before any treatment for addiction ever existed. Indeed, this is how people usually quit smoking. It might take them 157 quit attempts to figure it out, but eventually, most people do figure it out. RR just studied it, documented it, and came up with a way to disseminate the information.