You might have a different "step one" in mind, but Step One in recovery is not about not drinking. Step One is where we admit we are just as powerless over alcohol while sober as we are while drinking...

S.O.B.E.R. = Son Of a Buck, Everything is Real

...and that is why A.A. never suggests "Don't drink!" Recovery is for people who *want* to stop but cannot:

"For those who are unable to drink moderately the question is how to stop altogether...assuming, of course, that the reader desires to stop...has already lost the power to choose...
"Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it - this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish." ("A.A.", page 34)