I only knew Steve for about a year but within that year, several people tried to help him become sober so he could realize his potential as a human being and to live a few more years. Steve got together with a friend of ours who had counseling experience and they developed steps that Steve could follow and become sober. They decided that the best way for Steve to become sober was to slowly wean himself off of alcohol by slowly decreasing his alcohol intake.
It was a good idea but Steve decide it would be a better idea for him to decrease his alcohol intake very slowly. We are talking snails pace slow. This is what I call "Steve's Twelve Pack Plan To Sobriety." Steve estimated that he drank about 24 beers a day. He believed that if he decreased his beer intake by a beer a day for that month then at the end of two years, he would be completely sober.
When Steve first told me his plan, my initial reaction was "you cannot be serious." Oh, but he was. It was sheer genius on his part but I am thinking that Alcoholics Anonymous would not endorse this program for anyone. Ever. Needless to say it really didn't work for him and it definitely did not work for his "sponsors", namely those of us that was putting up with him.
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