The users of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that such tactics do not work.
They think a better option is to go for outside help. The Steps call this source of help a Higher Power. Some smokers take a Higher Power to be God. For others, the Higher Power may be family members, friends, a quit smoking program, or a Nicotine Anonymous group.
Putting relationships on a new basis: The Twelve Steps help people recover by taking an inventory of the consequences of their smoking in their lives.
People are asked questions like:
• How smoking affected them, including their health, finances and personality.
• How does their smoking affect other people?
• What triggers their smoking? And, in addition,
• What temperament flaws, such as impatience, urge them to smoke?
After admitting the answers to these questions to themselves, to a Higher Power and others, people are intensely stimulated to quit smoking. The smokers can follow up by providing suitable compensation to people they have harmed owing to their nicotine addiction.
Nicotine Anonymous offers meetings and literature to people looking forward to quit smoking and those in recovery. More information on NA meetings can be obtained at www.nicotine-anonymous.org
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