I think I had all my relapses before I actually started attending seriously. I would go every now and again to a meeting. I chose AA over NA because the town I lived in they were much better quality meetings. Those same meetings now everyone talks about drugs. The pure boozers are way outnumbered.

I went to 270 meetings in 90 days. Three meetings a day. I wasn't working and had nothing else to do. I didn't want to be alone. The physical detox really depends on what you were doing and how heavy and for how long. Like Petra5ed said working out and sweating a lot helps. It's not the physical part it is the mental obsession part that is hard. I couldn't do it alone. I jumped in head first and replaced it with AA.