“‘We’ve got some bad news for you. It was bad news for us, and it will probably be bad news for you. Whether you quit six days, months, or years, if you go out and take a drink or two, you’ll end up in this hospital tied down, just like you have been in these past six months. You are an alcoholic.’” (Page 187, Big Book)
To decide to stop and stay stopped requires the following understanding:
(1) I cannot do X safely
(2) I will never be able to do X safely
(3) If I start I may never stop
(4) It will shorten my life
(5) It will ruin such life as I have
(6) I must never do X
(7) I will do X, without God, however
(8) I commit to never doing X
(9) I ask God to enable this
(10) In return I ask God what to perform instead
I then get on with it.