Just Going to Meetings - the easy way or the hard way to recover?

Clarence Snyder, the First Edition's "Home Brewmeister", started the first Cleveland A.A. Group in the summer of '39. He reported that Dr. Bob said:

"There is an easy way and a hard way to recover from alcoholism. The hard way is by just going to meetings."

— Dr. Bob ~ Robert H. Smith, M.D. of Akron, Ohio