Originally Posted by
jazzfish 
I have found that a lot of traditional suggestions seem almost designed to set people up for failure.
yes, it seems to me that with that line of thinking, you are telling yourself that drinking is desirable and something you want to do, but you just aren't doing it today. Because if not desirable, why not be glad to be free of it? Why not proclaim you are done? So yes, its seems to reinforce the AV somehow to me.