For anybody that is interested here is the twelve step program for AA: 1. "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable" 2. "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity" 3. "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of G-d as we understtod him." 4. "Made a searching and Fearless moral inventory of ourselves" 5. "Admitted to G-d, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." 6. "Were entirely ready to have G-d remove all these defects of character." 7. "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings" 8. "Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." 9. "Made a direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." 10. "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrongly promptly admitted it." 11. "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with G-d as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for use and the power to carry that out." 12. "Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs"