Originally Posted by
Watcher 
If you're talking to yourself (not the AV) this is a good practice.
Your reasons are yours alone and the AV need not know them. The only thing the beast needs to know is "I will never drink and I mean it".
I would go further and argue that once you have made a Big Plan, that you no longer need to re-hash all the bad stuff in order to reinforce it. The need to reinforce it implies self-doubt, which would be Addictive Voice. There is also a good chance that you may eventually start to forget why you quit in the first place, so relying on past reasons can be unreliable. It is best to simply get into the habit of letting your Big Plan be the last word on the matter. You can then close the book on that sorry chapter of your life and let the sands of time wash over it, knowing that you won't ever go back to that state.