Going to AA meetings, reading the Big Book, participating on SR actively, committing to daily exercise, taking up a new or renewed hobbby, being active in sobriety-related things every day.... these were all essential to me in dealing with cravings. I found cravings passed quickly and readily when I was tending to things that kept me busy and focused on my desire for sobriety and a better life. Complacency, old habit, old surroundings, falling into the 'same ol same ol' patterns that were the framework of my addiction.... these things always led me back to drinking.
I had to build a new framework and I had to work on it every day. Actively. When I did that.... cravings held little power.
