I've learned this lesson the hard way myself many times. Once went out with some buddies to have 'a beer' and wound up missing a week of work and going in the following Monday white knuckling it through DTs with an angry boss and co-workers..
As mentioned 26 days is a good run. In my humble opinion if you've made it that long you can (note: CAN) do it for the long run. Dust yourself off and start over.
Assign that AV a voice that makes your skin crawl.