That's not going to fix the brain architecture and chemistry that makes for addiction. Addiction is a physical thing. Some people are 5' 2" tall and some people are 6' 2" tall. You can't tell the person who is shorter to write down on a paper all the good and bad things compared to being a foot taller and expect it to make a difference in how tall they are.
Knowing as much, however, arms a person with more knowledge about what is actually occurring and more knowledge is always a good thing. It doesn't make a given condition any better or worse, only brings a bit of closure, understanding. The condition is still there.
I'm talking from experience, as a former alcohol addict (aka "alcoholic") who recovered by doing exactly what I wrote. It's a secular (non-12-step) treatment for addictions called AVRT (addictive voice recognition technique).
If the ideological bullshit you're blabbering were true, then I (and many others) can't have got over an addiction using psycho-therapeutic intervention.
I used the exact same technique to quit my nicotine addiction a year after I had recovered from alcoholism using it.
The universal trait of all addicts are the cognitive distortions that justify the behavior. They sustain the addiction by making excuses for the self-harming behavior. Change the bodily behavior by changing the thought pattern that sustains it, and the brain will change.
I am of two minds about addiction. On one hand I believe that it can be overcome with enough effort and enough help - with proper guidance, determination, and medication. I believe this because I know many alcoholics and/or drug addicts who have not used in decades.
I also think Moogly is corrrect that in some, addiction cannot be fixed. I am in this category. It isn't that I cannot stop using some kind of mind-altering chemical. I stopped drinking when I got married at 32, and didn't drink a drop for 8 years. BUT, during that time I substituted dyphenhydramine and/or dextromethorphan for alcohol. Even when I returned to drinking during my break up and subsequent divorce, I still used DXM, and did for more than 20 years). I believe it helped with my depression and anxiety, but it also ate away at my brain, so that my memory is now a shambles, and I am noticeably dumber now than I was when I was in my 20s and 30s. Really, everyone who knows me knows it, even my kids, and especially my siblings and parents.
Even now, at 57, I am forced to be sober because I am on probation and one slip could get me incarcerated. I fear going to jail more than anything, more than death, and more than bad health. But I am miserable. Even on meds, with no mind-enhancing chemicals to interfere with their effectiveness, I am not necessarily suicidal or hopelessly depressed, nor do I enter wildly manic phases, so they do stabilize me; but I feel no pleasurable effects from them, and they are not designed to do so. My caregivers will NOT let me have trancs, or any mind-altering drug, because of my addictive nature, and because I tell them proactively that I WILL probably abuse any such drugs, especially something like a heavy tranquilizer. Give me valium and I will take more than the recommended dose, guaranteed.
So, I am stuck in what they call ham-fisted sobriety. I am this way because, truth be told, without some kind of mental boost, that I can physically feel, I am disinterested, dispassionate, and utterly bored to tears with life. I can feel happy at times, like recently, especially if I stay involved at this site and don't spend all day lying in bed, and if I can maintain working steadily and making money.
BUT - once I am free of probation, I will almost certainly begin to drink, or do something to make my life less boring. I care MORE about enjoying what time I have left than being healthy. I don't give a damn if I drop dead of a stroke or have a heart attack, or if I get run over by a truck. As long as I don't take anyone else with me - which is why I don't drive drunk and have never had a DUI.
Sobriety. Fucking. Sucks. - Ozzy Osbourne.