| Step # | Step | Pages | Chapter |
| 1 (part 1) | “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol --…” | pp. xxiii-xxx | The Doctor’s Opinion (page # varies by edition) |
| 1 (part 2) | “…that our lives had become unmanageable” | pp. 30-43 | Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism |
| 2 (part 1) | “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves ….. | pp. 44-57 | Chapter 4: We Agnostics |
| 2 (part 2) | “….could restore us to sanity” | pp. 17-29 pp. 569-570 | Chapter 2: There is a Solution Appendix II (page # varies) |
| 3 | “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” | pp. 58-64 | Chapter 5: How It Works |
| 4 (part 1) | “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”(Resentment) | pp. 64-67 | Chapter 5: How It Works |
| 4 (part 2) | “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” (Fear) | pp. 67-68 | Chapter 5: How It Works |
| 4 (part 3) | “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” (Sex) | pp. 68-71 | Chapter 5: How It Works |
| 5 | “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” | pp. 72-75 | Chapter 6: Into Action |
| 6 7 | “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” | p. 76 | Chapter 6: Into Action |
| 8 9 | Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” | pp. 76-84 | Chapter 6: Into Action |
| 10 | “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” | pp. 84-85 | Chapter 6: Into Action |
| 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.” | pp. 85-88 | Chapter 6: Into Action |
| 12 (part 1) | “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics...” | pp. 89-96 | Chapter 7: Working with Others |
| 12 (part 2) | “...and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” | pp. 96-103 | Chapter 7: Working with Others |