We humans are a complicated lot. I gained a new perspective on my understanding of addiction , when I reached the point of enough is enough and finding out about RR/AVRT. Quitting for real lead me to looking back and trying to figure out what my drinking was and how I could have lived as a drinker for so long.
The two step approach I adopted #1 Stop , #2 Don't would have, for alot of reasons, seemed impossible when I identified as a drinker, that self identification was also dependent on alot of reasons/justifications/rationalizations. One of the biggest impediments to adopting a mindset that would allow trying a two step approach was accepting ideas that catered to the notion that the choice was beyond my reach, or that the cause was not entirely my doing and so therefore the cure would not come from within. Once I 'tried' to believe that I had power of the choice, Idid.