sfgirl

You might not be able to stop them. The best you can do sometimes is recognize them as crazy and ignore them to the best of your ability. I do not reason with them because I deign them as crazy. If I find myself indulging these thoughts, like saying back to them, oh, it would be ok to drink, you weren't that bad, maybe you weren't a real alcoholic, I just say to myself, NOT A REAL THOUGHT, IGNORE, and I wait. I just kind of watch them like they are a little crazy fantastical child throwing a tantrum in my mind that will go away after a while. And they do go away after a while. It is like waiting out a storm. For me I have had it last an hour to as long as two weeks.

I don't know if that is the best way to deal but it is what I do. And unfortunately I had to do it this weekend at 11 months sober, after about 5 months of no cravings or crazy thoughts whatsoever. I found myself waiting out cravings this weekend. Yep, addiction is crazy and can come out of the woodwork at crazy times.

A thing you might want to check out is urge surfing (basically dealing with urges using mindfulness), I think what I do is a version of it, and other people can probably explain it much better than me:

Mindfulness

If that website is unhelpful you can always put it into google. Good Luck. It really does get way easier.