Originally Posted by
amandaw 
The truth is that I hate AA meetings and rehab meetings. I hate the "homework" that's involved. I just want to stop drinking and have that be the end of it. I know that it's in my best interest to go. I'm already planning on drinking once I have a year sober.
I don't think you are cheating so much as you have not really decided that you want to quit. There is usually a lot of ambivalence involved in sobriety; half of you wants to quit, the other half wants to continue but without the hangovers and jail time for DUI's. What you really need to do is make up your mind that there is NOTHING more important than being abstinent. Everything else follows from that. If you "can't stand" AA, and you have a good reason for this distaste (other than that they think you should quit drinking) then try AVRT, RR or SMART Recovery. Nobody can quit for you, though, so your decision to really quit is the most important step.