Originally Posted by
NYCDoglvr 
As the Big Book says "alcohol was but a symptom". It is really very simple. Do you choose to drink today or not?
If drinking alcohol were indeed 'but a symptom', then logically, you really couldn't choose not to drink, could you? That would be like saying that you could choose to not get a fever, which is 'but a symptom', when you have the flu.