I don't particularly buy that Lucy, since AC's drinking concept is exactly the same as his smoking one. There is no difference, so unless Jason is saying that he came up with the original smoking concept then... 
Trouble with all of it is that it's not exactly patent-worthy stuff, is it, the idea that we've all been sold a pup re. alcohol and cigarettes and that actually they confer no value or benefit whatsoever..?
glad I was very into that way of thinking when I first stopped, having attended an Allen Carr seminar day as my pivotal stop-point. But as time's gone on, I really have come to think that it's far less simple than he/they make out. I agree with of his points but I don't agree that we're all equally likely to become addicted, and that those "further up the pitcher plant" have only a matter of time before they start to drink in a more disordered way. I don't think you can escape the fact that some of us drink differently to others. Some people can sit with a glass of wine all evening and some of us haven't been able to your years and years, and maybe never could. I think it was Johann Hari recently who published a book containing the shocking statistic that if you suffered a significant childhood trauma you are 4600% more likely to become a drug addict.
So although I don't like (or use) the term "alcoholic", I think we can get lost in the semantics of it. The fact is, I believe, that some of us (call us addicts or alcoholics or problem drinkers or "those who realised their lives would be less chaotic if they stopped drinking" 
) are wired differently and are disposed to addictive behaviours. The more I read about those people treading the sobriety path, the more common factors I read about. People tending towards perfectionism, highly sensitive types, often from an early age feeling awkward or as though they don't quite 'fit in', drinking to make us feel relaxed in social situations because actually we're a bit introverted and can't quite face it... all of these things tie together.
So although I don't like the term alcoholic because I think it confers a negative stereotype, and sounds like it's describing a group of people struggling with life, I don't think it particularly matters. I feel the same way about Jason's attitude towards counting days. I don't count days because I'm sitting here hand-wringing and wishing I could drink. My count is a celebration of time that's passed since the moment I realised that life would be better without the booze. It's a celebratory look ahead rather than a wistful look behind.
Having said all of that, I think the AC and JV books are great at shaking up all of society's delusions about alcohol and spurred me into being able to being brave enough to stop in the first place. And without that I wouldn't have the clarity to think anything, because I'd still be mired in the booze 