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Now You Can Take Control of Your Own Recovery Process
Alcoholics Anonymous is not the only answer or even the best answer for many people. In fact, seven of every eight people who start AA's 12-step program abandon it within three years. Fortuanately, there are more effective ways to quit drinking—proven methods that will help you be successful on your own terms.
Inside this life-affirming book is the new beginning you're looking for. Certified addictions counselor and 16-year recovering alcoholic Jerry Dorsman offers more than 100 proven techniques to gain control of your recovery. His self-help approach includes the best:
·Step-by-step instructions for breaking the habit
·Foods to help you beat the cravings
·Methods for internal cleansing and detox
·Nutrition information for rebuilding your health
·And much more!
"A thorough approach backed with practical guidelines and techniques."—Addiction and Recovery Magazine
"The right blend of substance and simplicity. Bubbling with resources."—Natural Health magazine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57763 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-01
• Released on: 1997-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

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"Quit drinking on your own terms," urges Jerry Dorsman, addictions counselor and an alcoholic in recovery for over 16 years. Those terms, carefully outlined in How to Quit Drinking Without AA, shift the treatment model away from disease toward holism. In this upbeat and clearly written guide, Dorsman neither moralizes nor locks the alcoholic in the perception of powerlessness. "A part of you remains nonalcoholic, no matter how much you drink," Dorsman counsels. This book aims at reaching the strength and integrity of the nonalcoholic self.

Offering a refreshing look at the problem, Dorsman emphasizes habit over disease. If drinking is a learned behavior, it can be unlearned. Each chapter contains worksheets designed to penetrate the alcoholic's denial and exercises to assess the problem. Five simply stated steps integrate psychological and physical realties. A chapter on healing details a regimen of healthy eating, physical exercise, and great activities to substitute for drinking. A chapter on renewal offers auxiliary therapies to drug and alcohol treatment such as acupuncture, massage, and tai chi. How To Quit Drinking Without AA will appeal to those who are ready to take charge of their recovery, seeing it as nothing less than the means to change one's life.

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to each their own...
For those who get what they need from this book; are able to stop or control their drinking... Our hats are off to you!

Sure - Give It a Shot
If it works for you - that is, if you stop drinking, and stay stopped - then great.

If it doesn't, you can always go to AA and get and stay sober.

(Whole lot of misconceptions about AA out there. Really, you don't have to believe or think anything in order to be there. Many people don't like AA simply because the very idea of it threatens their drinking. And drinking is something they don't actually want to stop doing; they would just like the pain and suffering to go away and still keep drinking.)

Me, I haven't had a drink or a drug in 23 years, and my life is much the better for it. (And AA was and remains a fine help in that.)

Didn't work me either
I read the book a while ago, didn't finish it, and it was interesting but I didn't find very helpfull. They have go on these, from what I thought ridicoulous diets. Anyway, I might give it another go and read it.