Originally Posted by
flame11 
I acknowledged/ recognised this and the thought evaporated. I continued my walk home completley unperturbed by this encounter. How cool is that! Before AVRT I would have been grappling with that thought all evening and would have eventually given in to the AV because I wasn't aware of what I was dealing with.
That's it, flame, you've got it!
Recognize the AV, and maintain the separation. IT, your Beast, wants to drink, but you don't drink, and since the desire to drink comes from IT, and not from you, you don't even want to drink. In this fashion, abstinence is effortless for you, and difficult only for IT, your Beast.
The Beast doesn't really care what you have to say, though, and you will probably learn that if you engage in unnecessary dialogue with the AV, it will just keep suggesting the same "solution" to anything you have to say. So, it's usually best to simply not engage in dialogue.