From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
QUIT occurs
16 times
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1.
... quit?"
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
"Why don't you
drink like a
gentleman or
quit?"
2.
... quit.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
If he is not
communicative,
give him a
sketch of your
drinking career up to the
time you
quit.
3.
... quit.
BB p.142,
To Employers
You
ask, because many
alcoholics, being
warped
and
drugged, do not
want to
quit.
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
He made up his
mind to
quit drinking altogether.
7.
... quit drinking
and you want to help ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
He
wants to
quit drinking and you
want to
help him, even if it be only a
matter of
good business.
8.
... 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.
9.
... 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.
10.
... quit it
or get out."
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
You'll have to quit it or get out."
11.
... 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.
12.
... 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.
13.
... 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.
14.
... quit playing
God.
BB p.62,
How It Works
First of all, we had to
quit
playing God.
15.
... 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.
16.
... 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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