Originally Posted by
Cyranoak 
People get sober in a number of different ways. AA is not the only tool. It's one tool that works for a lot of people. Having said that, in my experience it is rare for somebody to find sobriety without working some kind of program be it AA, AVRT, Drug and Alcohol Counseling, their religion, or something.
Although I say that most people do quit on their own, without a program, one could obviously argue that the method I currently use (AVRT) is a 'program'. At the very least, it certainly is a
paradigm for understanding addiction, and a methodology for destroying it. I certainly could have gone the trial-and-error route, but Rational Recovery has come up with a method based on the experiences of thousands of self-recovered people, effectively saving me the trouble.