Trying so hard to remain sober. I want to drink

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#1

Trying so hard to remain sober. I want to drink so badly. :pleading_face::pleading_face::cry:

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#2

Play the tape to the end.. where is it going to lead you? Cracking the bottle open never leads to anything good. Get to a meeting or call someone. You got this man.

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#3

Do something active? I felt this way and I played tennis .. the urge went away

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#4

Hang in there. Reach out to your support network and maybe hit a meeting.

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#5

Get to a meeting reach out to sober friends. Distract yourself. Don’t pick up.

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#6

All good advice.
Quality of life from sobriety takes time. I've heard it said that it's 10 miles into the woods and 10 miles back out. We didn't get this way overnight and we're not going to get better overnight.

The quicker that you find a sponsor that can take you through the 12 Steps the quicker you're going to start feeling this quality of life.

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 of his or her recovery.”

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#7

In addition to the comment I just left you above, I promise you that if you don't drink and you take it one day at a time, through the 12 steps and meetings life will get better for you and those cravings will go away. Get some phone numbers of people with quality long-term sobriety and start using the phone.

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#8

Thanks!!!! I’m still sober one day at a time bro

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#9

Thanks I haven’t had a drink and I don’t intend on having one. The cravings are just so hard to deal with.

#10

Thanks everyone I’m still sober! Just have to do it all over again tomorrow.

#11

Outstanding to hear! Keep rocking man

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#12

Go to meetings on Zoom. You can just listen and you don’t have to turn your camera on if you don’t want to. Don’t like that particular meeting? Try another one. There are thousands of them 24/7. You do like the meeting? Then get peoples phone numbers AND CALL THEM WHEN YOU WANT TO GET LOADED.

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#13

Congrats on your sobriety. I get cravings still but I found its ok to have cravings as long as I do not act on them. I heard someone in a meeting say we are alcoholics and we will have cravings from time to time. But we don't have to act on them. I found for myself that the farther I am from my last drink the less the cravings. Ice cream helps too. Hang in there. We all go thru it at one time or another.

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#14

Don’t drink

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#15

Where do you find the zoom meetings?

#16

Need to find a meeting. Lean on other drunks to get you through the hard times. You and I will deal with whatever it is God has in store. Just don’t drink.

#17

Hi Tony: Look on the internet. I go to NA meetings, but if you go to AA, then look for "online Zoom AA meetings." Personally, I go to ones in my area, but sometimes I go to international ones. Message me if you still have trouble finding one.

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I just friended you

#19

Hey Tony: Did you find the information that you need? Thanks.