I went to a SMART meeting last night. I think I need a two pronged approach. For me, quitting prescribed medication is as bad as, and almost inevitably leads to, drinking or taking non prescribed drugs. So in order to abstain from bad habits, I need to abstain from quitting the good habit, if that makes any sense.
The facilitator was explaining their method of retraining the brain to make more logical/rational decisions (I am over simplifying). I told him that the focus on rationale and logic seems to presuppose that I am a reasonable person and sometimes I am not. I don't think he quite understood what I meant because he seems convinced that deep down you always have the ability to be in control (the key difference between SMART and AA). I thought about telling him that sometimes I am equally convinced that I am immortal and was placed here for a great purpose that is yet to be revealed. But it was right at the end of the meeting so I just let it drop.
Thinking it over later, what I can do as a reasonable and rational person is apply the thought processes to not allow myself to decide I am cured and stop taking meds, thereby reducing the chances that I will become an unreasonable person who can't apply the thought processes to keep from drinking and drugging.