Copyright 1990, 1992, 1999 by Nicotine Anonymous®
The Twelve Steps reprinted and adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not mean that AA is affiliated with this program. AA is a program of recovery from alcoholism - use of the Twelve Steps in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after AA, but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise. See Alcoholics Anonymous' Twelve Steps below.

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.   Copyright 1939, 1955, 1976 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

1.        Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon Nicotine Anonymous unity.

2.        For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

3.        The only requirement for Nicotine Anonymous membership is a desire to stop using nicotine.

4.        Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Nicotine Anonymous as a whole.

5.        Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the nicotine addict who still suffers.

6.        A Nicotine Anonymous group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the Nicotine Anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

7.        Every Nicotine Anonymous group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8.        Nicotine Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9.        Nicotine Anonymous, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10.     Nicotine Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Nicotine Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11.     Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, and films.

12.     Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.