Experts say there are three types of addicts:

1. Substance addicts: nicotine, food, cocaine, alcohol, drugs, marijuana, crack, heroin etc.
2. Behavior addicts: work, food, sex, shopping, gambling, cell phone etc.
3. People addicts or codependents: symptoms of a codependent include the imperative need to please others, excessive control over people, suffering for want to solve problems for others, little or no expression of feelings, difficulty setting limits, easy to blackmail, and indecisiveness.

The Twelve Steps of CAFE

1. We admit that we lack the power to live a full spiritual life, and that our lives have become unmanageable.

2. We have come to the conviction that only a power greater than ourselves can restore us to wholeness.

3. We decide to place our wills and our lives in the care of God, as we understand him.

4. We fearlessly take a moral inventory of ourselves.

5. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our weakness.

6. We are entirely willing to let God deliver us from our character flaws.

7. We humbly ask him to release us from our shortcomings.

8. We make a list of the people we have offended and are willing to repair the damage we caused them.

9. We directly repair the damage caused, except if when doing so would damage them or others.

10. We continue to do our personal inventory and when we make a mistake we immediately admit it.

11. Through prayer and meditation, we seek to improve our conscious contact with God, as we conceive him, only asking him to let us know his will for us and give us the strength to fulfill it.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to all who want it and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

The Twelve Traditions of CAFE

1. Our common welfare comes first, personal recovery depends on the CAFÉ unit.

2. For the purpose of our group there is only one fundamental authority: a loving God who manifests himself in the conscience of our groups. Our leaders are nothing more than trusted servants, they do not rule.

3. The only requirement to belong to CAFÉ is to want to further enrich your spiritual life.

4. Each group is autonomous, except in matters that affect other groups or CAFÉ considered as a whole.

5. Each CAFÉ group has only one primary objective, to carry the CAFÉ message to whoever wants it.

6. A CAFÉ group should never endorse, finance or lend the CAFÉ name to any related entity or outside company. We avoid the money, property and prestige problems that deviate us from our primary objective.

7. A CAFÉ group must support itself, refusing to receive outside contributions.

8. CAFÉ will never be professionalized, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9. CAFÉ as such should never be incorporated; but we can create service boards or committees that are directly accountable to those they serve.

10. CAFÉ has ​​no opinion about matters unrelated to its activities; therefore, its name should never be mixed up in public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based more on attraction than promotion, we must always maintain personal anonymity before the press, radio and the cinema.

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