Not how I was sponsored, but there ya go.
If you can get a 1st Step that way, then do it.
I had to be shown or to at least find some kind of connection with others who suffered the same malady as I did... physically, mentally, and spiritually. And war stories just didn't cut it. There are specifics to what happens to me when I put booze in my body that sets me apart from the norm... I also see the mental twists and blank spots that lie ahead through my own experience and through those others like me. Then the spiritual malady forward is something that we all probably have in common.
Once you get to a certain part in the book, they stop talking about booze in the body, then in the mind. Then they stop talking about booze in general.