I agree with Anna - it's a shift in attitude and perception regardless of what method or programme.
I tried to quit at least once a week for 15 years.
Back then the parameters of 'quitting' for me were 'I'll stop for a while and then return to drinking every so often because I'll have learned control'...
eventually it became 'ok I can't drink...I won't drink but I'm not changing my life/friends who I am or anything else either'
Looking back, both of those were insane ideas and both doomed to failure.
So I kept drinking until I nearly died and I ended up here.
Once I accepted that I really needed to change, and change more than my drinking, if I wanted to live...
once I put my faith and trust in the guys here, put my fear to one side and determined that this recovery lark would actually be the making of me....it all became a whole new ballgame for me.
It wasn't the same as anything I'd ever done before
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