Just wish to make it clear, that during my lengthy addiction, I wasn't aware I had a choice to stop drinking, until I joined SR and discovered AVRT. Prior to that I was told that the power of choice was a higher power outside myself, that I should pray to that HP. But sadly, God didn't answer my prayers and having been raised a Catholic, I suspected he wouldn't.
AVRT simply taught me that the power of choice was within myself, my own capacity. The same power that folks have utilised for eons (prior to AVRT). Buddhism also deals with this separation and power of choice.