I'm curious, if your AV is you and you are one in the same, and you don't want to drink, why don't you just stop? I ask out of sincerity by the way, I'm learning too and don't have the same understanding as you and have questions about other's path to recovery.
My understanding is the AV is not you at all but rather a belief system. Unfortunately you have given it substance, a life, a name, now known as YOU. But it can't be you, if you don't want to drink. Which means it is not you at all and only a craving, which in itself is a compound of arising thoughts we allow to control our body (which is the real you).