Originally Posted by
AlericB 
Or there is a fourth option perhaps, and one which the model suggests you take, which is to challenge the thought. If you ask yourself "Do I really want to have a beer now?" then it becomes an active choice rather than the more passive, but no less valid of course, options you gave of either mindfully letting it pass, of giving into it, or of getting caught up and obsessing about it.
The thing with making it a choice or asking if you want it is that it's AV. Without turning this into AVRT, it's leaving the door open until the day comes along where drinking is the happier option. I still haven't read very much of the book though, so maybe I just don't fully understand.