Originally Posted by
RobbyRobot 
Speaking for myself, it doesn't matter how strong or weak my Beast is or is not. No matter what, I don't drink anyways, so the relative strengths of the Beast and it's AV are truly unimportant.
exactly!
this is the area where i struggled a few times at first, not as in actually giving in and drinking but making it hard when as JT says it should be effortless... in the end i stopped granting my beast any person-hood, even as a metaphor (though i refer to it that way when TALKING about AVRT) and to me it's just an addiction, some wires that got crossed to mistake alcohol for a necessity like oxygen.
my beast/AV is my own and de-personalising it in that way helped me, not saying it would be right for everyone though.