12 Traditions

The 12 Traditions of Nicotine Anonymous

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

2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.

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

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

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

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

7. Every NicA 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. NicA, 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 NicA 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, and film.

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