Thanks for welcome guys.
Good point freshstart57. Just because I haven't personally come across anyone using AVRT I am making assumptions. I have come across plenty of poeple who have just had enough and given up drinking though. When I ask how, the techniques they use are similar to AVRT. But as Trimpey based AVRT on what he had learnt from people who it it themselves I suppose that's not surprising.
Algorithm, I have had the book for a couple of years. I tried everything before AVRT (except stopping drinking). I listened to people who told me I must have deep seated "issues" and even though I felt I didn't I was pressured into trying therapy and other things to fix them. Didn't make any difference to my wanting to drink. I couldn't understand either, if I was drinking because I had all of these problems, why I wanted to drink when I felt happy without a care in the world too.
I learnt though AVRT the desire to drink was down to a biological urge (the Beast). A warped survival drive that existed only to secure a supply of alcohol for the body.
Once created this drive was with me for life. You cannot reason with a biological urge. You cannot talk it out of its whole purpose for being in existance.
You cannot communicate with it at all. But it can communicate it's need to you through the AV, whose sole purpose is to procure alcohol to meet the needs of this drive. This is my basic understanding of AVRT
What is troubling me at the moment is my wife has a terminal illness and the Beast does not miss a chance. There is a ***** in my resolve and the AV is working on it relentlessly, It tells me, when my wife passes, I will crumble. I repeat my Big Plan to myself, but the Beast having access to all my thoughts sends the AV homing in on this.