It was after 35 years of drinking that I just put the bottle down. There was some wild soul searching that went on that morning of August 22, 2011, but it took only a few minutes to make my choice to quit drinking, no matter what.
I advocate for AVRT but only because it closely describes what I started to do that morning, long before I knew anything about it. The
SMART ideas were accepted and understood by me as plain as the nose on my face, even when I was drinking. I believe even more strongly now that we can choose sobriety by deciding to no longer drink. We just need some more skills to deal effectively with our daily challenges, instead of indulging ourselves with booze in a futile attempt to cope.
I used to think that opening that vodka bottle was the easy way out, but that way of life was hard. This is so much easier now. When the booze goes, the mind stops racing quite so much all the time, and things begin to make sense again. I hope you find the same to be true for you.