Cos otherwise, sometime sooner or later, you're going to be blindsided by an event, a person, a feeling, a situation or a stressor...and the urge to drink or use will be there.
If you haven't given much thought to what you might do in response, there's always the danger you'll revert to the default - which, for people like us, is drink/use.
Make a plan
It may take a little time and some deep thought, but it's really not that difficult
Here are some helpful free links and ideas
http://www.npaihb.org/wp-content/upl...r-recovery.pdf
[MIRROR]
https://web.archive.org/web/20180728...0/SMA-3720.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150927...SMA12-4474.pdf http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-recovery.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-cravings.html
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