The guilt, remorse are there because we believe that we made a conscious decision to drink. Early phase of our drinking career maybe, but we reach a point where we are driven. Again, this is not for all. Certain sect of the population fall into this zone, where we cant stay stopped. The mind always comes up with a grand plan. Its going to be different this time. I have ran into people in the correction facility who are serving for vehicular homicide, they had just completed treatment, yet they thought they could drink safely and crashed their car into someone. Tragic, but true. They didn't have a choice, they still had the old way of thinking that they can handle alcohol safely and stay stopped But again that peculiar mental twist, I will have just 1. But once we accept it, we can look at options to have a new attitude.