From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... quit?"
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
2.
... quit.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
3.
... quit.
BB p.142,
To Employers
4.
... quit alcohol.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
5.
... quit bothering
yourself with such deep questions ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the
egg that came first.
6.
... quit drinking
altogether.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... quit drinking
and you want to help ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
8.
... quit drinking
liquor for good and all, ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely
feel that you must have some
help, we know that we have an
answer for you.
9.
... quit entirely,
or if when drinking, you ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit
entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
10.
... quit for
good and if he would ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Then let his family or a friend ask him if he wants to quit for good and if he would go to any extreme to do so.
11.
... quit it
or get out."
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
12.
... quit living
by ourselves with those tormenting ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
13.
... quit on
our will power.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our
will power.
14.
... quit our
stubborn, rebellious hanging on to ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
So we decided that while
we still had some flaws of
character that we could not yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to
quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to
them.
15.
... quit playing
God.
BB p.62,
How It Works
16.
... quit the
deadly business of living alone ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of
living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
17.
... quit upon
a nonspiritual basis depends upon ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has
already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not.
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