tigerlover

my longest was 3 months. It was great. today im on 2 weeks. how long is your longest? and how on earth did u do it!?

Enoy

3 years while going to AA back in 2003-2006. Since then ? 32 days Then I slipped a night. I went to AA for 2 years , came out and lasted another year.


Now I'm back up to 7 currently working through Day 8.

Congrats on your 2 weeks !!

BullDog777

in 4 days, God willing it'll be 15 months for me. that's the longest i've ever stayed sober.

how did i do it?

haha...i've sat here for the last 5 minutes trying to figure that out. i dunno, honestly.

i think i stay teachable, i come here, i never forget the pain i endured during the month i detoxed and i try to maintain a good relationship with God.

that's what's worked for me.

Taking5

25 months, while in AA. I quit working my program and coming here, and I relapsed.

suki44883

Going on 3 years by coming here, changing habits, places and things.

ronf

15 years, How? After my last trip to detox I was finally ready to shut up and listen. I had to be totally and completely humbled. It took me 5 years of going in and out of AA to get there. Being that humbled was absolutely the most freeing moment of my life. The sense of relief was indescribable. I continued to struggle, but was determined not to lose that feeling. All the struggle has been repaid to me 10 fold in a peaceful heart, mind, and conscience.

Wish you all the best, Ron

Fandy

in the year 2010 beginning on Feb. 16....i think a total of 237 days, i did not write it down.

I am aiming for a higher number in 2011.

LexieCat

I've been sober for the past two and a half years. Before that, I went thirty days once (to prove I could do it), but from there, it was more than four years before I could string together a week. The only way to do it, IMO, is to stop, period, and make drinking no longer an option, under any and all circumstances. For me, that meant AA and a total commitment to sobriety on my part.

CarolD

We who are winning over alcohol all start with Day 1..
congratulations tigerlover for beginning your journey...

My current date of continious AA recovery is 4-25-89
By daily connecting to God and AA...I remain a recovered alcoholic.

BullDog777

WOW

cabledude

I had lots of stretches from a couple of weeks to a handful of months trying all sorts of different methods and answers. Was a real drag to keep sobering up and drinking again and then sobering up and then drinking again.

This is the longest time I've been sober ever, so it's all fresh ground to me. If I don't drink for another 6 weeks it'll be 29 years. My sponsor just passed 39yrs, so doing this stuff looks like it works at least that long.

Murray4x5

7.5 months and this is the first, and hopefully only time, that I go through this.

How did I do it? By concentrating on how my drinking or being hungover was robbing me of all the things that used to give me joy or fulfilment, and how it was robbing my wife and daughter of the husband and dad I knew they wanted.

Reading lots of science based articles also helped me understand the physiological changes alcohol had made in my brain, and how those changes would fight to keep me drinking despite the wreckage it was creating in my life.

Coming here at least three times a day is also a big reason!

So far, so good...

Murray

laurie6781

For over 29 1/2 years, fast approaching 30 years.


My current date of continious AA recovery is 6-7-81
By daily connecting to God and AA...I remain a recovered alcoholic.

Love and hugs,

sailorjohn

14 years. Little over 4 currently. Gratitude. If you can manage only one thing every day, being grateful for your sobriety, you need never drink again.

least

Twenty years, went back out and struggled for nearly two years, currently 14 months. Have/had the help of my addiction counselor and this site. And gratitude is a huge reason for my staying sober, gratitude and my three dogs.

AmericanGirl

10 months and 1 day, today. It wouldn't have happened if I didn't learn how to ask for help, if I hadn't had the love and support of a few good people and a counselor, and if I hadn't joined SR that day I decided to really, finally quit. I also know my early days could have been jeopardized if something too difficult had happened, so I also owe a lot to good fortune. The timing worked to make those extremely difficult first couple of months possible. Now I'm about a hundred times more capable of dealing with life, but I still visit SR almost every day and will continue to do that, because I see recovery as a part of my life forever.

Before these 10 months, since I was 20 years old, I'd never gone more than a week or maybe 10 days without drinking, and those were rare, rare exceptions to otherwise daily drinking.

Congratulations on your 2 weeks, Tigerlover. You can do it. One thing that really helped me in the very beginning was keeping a journal and coming here regularly, and reading lots about recovery and addiction (memoirs and scientific articles etc). It will get easier with time.

LaFemme

I drank daily for about 15 years...hardcore the last 5-6. For four years of wanting to quit I never broke 6 days. I am now on 7+ months.

Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude...its essential not just to a sober life but a happy one. SR helps a lot. The realization that there is not one single good reason on this earth to consume alcohol. Working on problems in my life with a good therapist. Reading and understanding the science behind the addiction. Meditation.

Prayer helped me get sober but its the rest that has not only kept me sober but turned my life around.

24hrsAday

so far this time 4 years +.. previous record was 17 months twenty years ago now..

Sugah

3036 days, one day at a time.

Peace & Love,
Sugah

SixStringZen

24 hours is the longest I've ever had to....413 of them in a row, so far...