Whether or not you agree with the term 'allergy' is besides the point. I know for *me*, I don't react the same to alcohol as normal drinkers do, PERIOD.
sweetichick - by no means do you have to use AA for your recovery. But if not AA, what then? I learned the hard way after over a decade of trying to quit that I needed to open my mind. I was stubborn, cynical, and far too intelligent for all this recovery-nonsense. But after a decade of trying to quit - where had all that gotten me? Right back into the bottom of a beer bottle.
The act of putting the bottle down isn't difficult. But the breaking down of the ego is the real work of recovery. I know I was awful at taking advice, and I had to learn all the hard lessons myself. But I hope that some of what people have said here will help you.