It was 9 or 10 days after my first (voluntary) AA meeting and 10 or 11 since my last drink. We held hands at the end of that meeting and afterward the woman next to me said, with some astonishment, "you’re still shaking"! I thought the shaking had ended days before. In fact I thought I was feeling extraordinarily well, in a pink cloud sort of way.
Below is a picture of the first page of an article about AA by Jack Alexander. I think it was the first major article about AA ever published. It pictures how one man used a towel to get a drink to his mouth.
It's astonishing the lengths to which some of us went for a drink.