Originally Posted by
StevenSlate 
I find it odd that the idea of being happy to quit is repulsive to so many people.
It is odd. I quit smoking smoking several years ago and two remarks from people I knew really inspired me. One was from a friend's granddad who, clearly from experience, told me that the important thing is not quitting but being happy that I've quit. The other was from a friend's two young children who I can still recall looking up and me and unstoppably chanting something they'd learnt at school about smoking being bad for you.
So when I looked at the literature about addiction when I came to quit drinking I was surprised that I found nothing like this. Instead I was confronted by a (to me) mass of abstract and confused theory.
With TFM I have been able to find my way back to seeing my drinking problem the way I think most people who successfully change do and who just mature out of their problem. It's been a long journey and one which has taken me back to where I was.