AA is a new way to life. That's my home group's name!!!
I have been blessed with being sober for 16 years, thanks entirely to AA. AA uses group support (meetings) to help each other. There is too much too it that works to question it...how does AA help you stop drinking?!?! It provides people who give a darned about you (even though they don't know you) to help you get sober. Doesn't cost a cent. A meeting is usually 1 hour long. Group therapy for free?!??! Yep.
I think it works because it's a group of people who have the same problems and are looking for the same solution...a better way of life. Just as there are a lot of personalities we run into in "the real world" there are all types in meetings too.
Try a few meetings, you have nothing to lose...then the misery you are probably experiencing...I know I was pretty darned miserable.
Blessings,
Jen