Originally Posted by
BillieJean1 
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.
I haven't really read it either but it makes sense to me that if you have freely reassessed all your options for future drinking without feeling forced in any way and you chose astinence then that is your choice and no-one elses and, because of the PDP, the reason you made that choice is because it's where you see the most happiness for you and you will therefore find it easy to stick to. Your natural motivation for happiness will keep you sober.
As to it making it a choice to drink, I would say that it always is a choice. Free will is an absolute, we either have it or we don't, and the model says that we are in full control of our choices once we reject the addict self-image.