Originally Posted by
ReadyAndAble 
Maybe it's because I had already quit before I got into it, but for me the single greatest benefit I've derived from AVRT is the elimination of any sense that I'm missing out on anything positive at all.
I had a different interpretation. The positive was being drunk. I liked it, so I did it. When I figured out that the negatives
outweighed the positive, I knew I should stop. When I had trouble stopping I knew I had a problem.
Twenty years later, I found out I was sharing my head with a beast who craves alcohol.