“It doesn’t work for everyone.
All it did for me was provide me with a new bunch of drinking buddies. What eventually worked for me was making a conscious decision to quit and toughing it out. Its been 12 or 13 years since I quit.”
I have known almost no one who beats an addiction permanently.
Kudos to you for doing it.
Regarding AA failing. My psych professor said that traditional psychiatry also has about a 90 percent failure rate. He said drugs were about the only thing that worked and even then it was about 50%.