Let's see...
Don't drink... If I could do that I wouldn't need AA. Many slip, but if they work the program honestly, eventually we have a personality change sufficient to overcome drinking. Take the steps to recover, not recover and take the steps.
Go to meetings. It's pretty well established for alcoholics of my type that meetings alone do not treat alcoholism.
Get a sponsor. An important part of the solution, a teacher to help adopt the AA way of life as described in the big book. But as we are beyond human aid a sponsor is not a determining factors they have no special powers to sober anyone up. This is born out by research indicating whether you are sponsored or not has no effect on you chances of recovery.
All of the above combined with one other factor I haven't seen mentioned above will work.
What's that? Be a sponsor. Carry this message to alcoholics. Research shows people that sponsor are way more likely to stay sober than those that dont. Faith without works is dead indeed.