I believe that sometimes we try to reason things out as follows.
We go through HELL to finally get clean. And then start wondering, well if I was strong enough to make it through WDs, I'm just sure I could never fall back into the cycle of active addiction. I hate where I was and I'm going to be so, so careful. But since I am being really careful, I probably could take a "taste" on very rare occasions. And from there, most will agree where it will end up.
I have read a bunch of threads over a period of time. I don't believe, however, that I have ran into ONE post where the originator is boasting about "chipping", after coming from a full blown active addiction. At least if their planning on staying clean.
I'm sure that by chipping, we aren't planning on falling back in addiction. But then, I doubt there are many that planned on a problem to start with.
Just my opinion.