Day 4….I’m trying.
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You got this bud! Looks to me like you are winning. As long as you don’t use and hit the pillow sober, it’s a win!
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Exactly what Tim said. You're not trying, you're DOING IT! Hardest part is over: getting started.
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Back to day one for me. Im not giving up though. Found a buddhist group today with similar folks and it gave me renewed hope
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Back to day one for me. We can do this🙏
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It’s okay to start over , you can do this , I’m rooting for you 
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So proud of you for getting back Up , remember that sometimes even at our highest moments , the devil comes for us, good luck Kyle u can do this !
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Just get through today Jose, today is the only day you have , you can do this , rooting for you
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Just keep it simple. One day at a time. If I can do it you surely can😊
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Keep trying. I'm so proud of you because you're not giving up.
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Don't give up man!
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Don't give up man!
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Jose
Do you have a plan in place or are you just winging it without one?
Sobriety pays off much faster if we have a plan in place. Most people want something for nothing but I can testify that it's a dead end road.
Most people without a plan we'll end up relapsing. I would get to some meetings and get some phone numbers of people with long-term sobriety.
Sooner or later, if it hasn't happened already, you're going to have a desire to pick up a drink again. When that happens, you need to play the scene all the way forward.
You might feel good for a while but sooner or later when you wake up, if you wake up at all you're going to have a nasty hangover with much disappointment and you will be right back where you were at the moment that you picked up the drink.
Then you'll have to start all over again and deal with the same feelings that you have right now. In other words it's a big fat lie. Alcoholism tries to tell us that this time it will be okay. But it never is, is it?
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Also Jose
If you want to stay sober, you have to take action outside of this app and outside of your phone. This app has a lot of useful information and you can get some support but it is by no means the solution.
This comes from the Big Book of AA.
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one.
They are restless, irritable and discontented,
unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again.
This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope for his or her recovery.
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I messaged one person on this post because I felt embarrassed and weak. But I have the need to be honest with this community. I failed and I’m back on day one. I’ve taken the steps to let me “friends” know that I can’t hang out with other alcoholics anymore. Enough is enough. I just turned 30 and I want a sober life.
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Great job. Everyday is an opportunity. Little victories add up. Keep up the good work
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You keep relapsing because you keep on believing the LIE; at this time everything will be okay oh. But it never is, is it?