We can stop, attend meetings, talk to others and do service work and it helps us not to drink. Like awuh1 says it's more than just putting down the drink. It's working on ourselves. There's something that keeps us going back to drinking abnormally. I was a dry drunk for years and years. I had a year and a half sobriety. I got a medallion. I spoke and did the slogans at meetings. But I still have that emotional baggage stuffed deep down in me and when it would surface the answer was to push it back down with alcohol