From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... habit and
found they cannot break it, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
2.
... habit at
times of registering at a ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I would sometimes hide out in one of the clubs of which I was a member,
and had the habit at times of
registering at a hotel
under a fictitious name.
3.
... habit badly
enough to gradually impair him ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
4.
... habit of
accurate self-appraisal.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
5.
... habit of
self-restraint has become automatic.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For we can neither think
nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
6.
... habit of
showing when you were getting ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in
the habit of showing when
you were getting another
drink.
7.
... habit, that
it was indeed the beginning ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show
that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a
fatal progression.
8.
... habit, until
he is able to admit ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
9.
... habit, with
stubbornness, or a weak will?
BB p.140,
To Employers
Can you discard the feeling that you are dealing only with habit, with
stubbornness, or a weak will?
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