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Old 06-01-2017, 05:06 AM
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August252015
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Originally Posted by sweetichick View Post
I have considered rehab but the one nearby doesn't allow smoking. I have a psychiatrist who thinks me and my friend are codependent. Counseling didn't work. My gotoes for not drinking were going to the movies or down the beach. That didn't work as there never seemed to be a movie at the same time as a craving or not enough petrol to get to the beach. Maybe I am just not trying hard enough. It's like I couldn't control me going to the bottle shop. Scary.
I could have highlighted pretty much this whole paragraph but I stuck with just these two sentences.

Bottom line is you have to want to be sober more than you want to drink- period. Smoking, this friend, and definitely "trying hard enough" just aren't the real deterrents to your sobriety.

I hope you choose sobriety for good.
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