Addiction Remedies -Heading East looking for Sunset

Conventional Addiction remedies all stipulate that you've got to stop using (insert drug of choice) before they can help you.

Fine, sounds good on paper.

How many times have you tried to quit smoking cigarettes?

You get to have total control over the "parameters" or how you "DEFINE" the measure of progress you're making towards conquering an addiction.

Let's say you screw up...
Is that 'screw up' a:

Relapse?

or a Slip?

What ever you do, don't 'set your self up for failure', what CAN you do that's pro-active?

Set a 'bottom line', experts define addiction as:

a recurring self destructive behavior that you contine even after you see it has negative consequences.