supporting each other to stop
smoking…one day at a time
Welcome to the UK website of Nicotine Anonymous
Nicotine Anonymous is a
12-Step fellowship of people helping each other to quit smoking and live our
lives free of nicotine.
We share our experience, strength
and hope with each other so that we may be free from this powerful addiction.
The
only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using nicotine – anyone
can attend.
Nicotine Anonymous is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organisation or institution; does not engage in any controversy, neither endorses or opposes any cause. Our primary purpose is to offer support to those who are trying to gain freedom from nicotine.
We are fully self-supporting through our own contributions – meetings work wholly on a voluntary donation basis.
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Contact Information/Start a
Meeting
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The Twelve Steps of Nicotine
Anonymous
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The Twelve Traditions of
Nicotine Anonymous
Nicotine Anonymous UK Meetings List
Updated 24th March 2008
Town/City Day Start Time
End Time
Address (click link for map )
Church of St Charles Borromeo, 6-8 Ogle Street,
London W1W 6HS
London
Ogle
St
[near Goodge
St]
Monday
6:45 pm
7:45 pm
Church of St Charles Borromeo, 6-8 Ogle Street,
London W1W 6HS
London
Ogle
St
[near Goodge
St]
Wednesday
6:45 pm
7:45 pm
Church of St Charles Borromeo, 6-8 Ogle Street,
London W1W 6HS
London Ogle St [near
Goodge St]
Saturday
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Please note - all our London meetings are currently at Ogle Street.
To gain entry please pass through the church on the right-hand side, through the wooden door at the end and the meeting room is to the right down the stairs.
Contact Information / Start a meeting
Please contact
us for any further information or with questions.
If you would like to start a Nicotine Anonymous meeting in your area
we can send you a Meeting Starter Pack.
Send a cheque or postal order for £10 payable to ‘Nicotine Anonymous UK’ and send it to the address below
– we will send you a Meeting Starter Pack.
Please include your telephone number with the payment so we can give you a call.
Alternatively call or email us first if you would like more information.
Starter Pack cost is £10,
including the Nicotine Anonymous ‘Big Book’ and other information about
how to run a meeting.
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Email: |
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Write to: Nicotine Anonymous c/o The Drug and Alcohol Foundation 18 Dartmouth Street LONDON SW1 9BL |
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Telephone: 020 7976 0076 |
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For press enquiries only please call our Duty Press Officer on 07956 950958
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See also the US website
to order official Nicotine Anonymous literature:
www.nicotine-anonymous.org [we are
not responsible for the content of this site]
The
Twelve Steps of Nicotine Anonymous
1.We admitted we
were powerless over nicotine and 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 nicotine users and to practice these principles in all
our affairs.
The Twelve Traditions of Nicotine Anonymous
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on 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 centres 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, television, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before
personalities.
Nicotine
Anonymous UK 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008