Cravings
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: SF Bay area, CA
Posts: 99,780
For me the cravings come out of nowhere, but it depends on how I'm feeling and what's going on in my life more than the time of day. I drank to escape my feelings so the time of day didn't matter.
CarolD gives good advice about cravings, how they don't last forever and to do something to occupy yourself til it passes.
You can do this! Take it one minute, one hour at a time if you have to.
Welcome!:ghug3
CarolD gives good advice about cravings, how they don't last forever and to do something to occupy yourself til it passes.
You can do this! Take it one minute, one hour at a time if you have to.
Welcome!:ghug3
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hampshire UK
Posts: 162
My cravings are always in the evening - especially if I have had a hard day since I feel like I deserve a "reward" - but I think I crave the feeling of being out of it rather than alcohol as a raw substance. After 8pm is a real danger time, and it's worse during the winter months with dark nights as I can't seem to find a distraction
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 602
Mine would hit me every few days and right after I got off of work...3:20 p.m.
I too wanted to reward myself
. Now that I don't work...since I was laid off in Oct (company went out of business) my reward cravings come earlier in the day and more often.
Gesh! When am I ever going to get a job?
XOXO
I too wanted to reward myself
. Now that I don't work...since I was laid off in Oct (company went out of business) my reward cravings come earlier in the day and more often.Gesh! When am I ever going to get a job?
XOXO
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: carlisle uk cumbria
Posts: 45
yeh they are horrible and for most folk they are fisrt thing in the morning what i do id fill a bottle up with water and keep drinking that and also eating losts of sweet things and trying to keep busy
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
Hi Everyone....
I think there are 2 types of cravings
perhaps a mixture?
One type is more a habit than physical.
You drive home and your car steers into your
favorite bar or package store.
You come home tired...sit in "your: chair and
want the usual comfort of a glass/can in hand.
To sleeep better...toss down a drink.
These can be avoided by changeing your routine
Drive a different route
Change the furniture around..sit in a different place.
Fix a glass of anything non alcoholic.
If you drink booze from a can...use a glass
If you did drink from a glass...use a mug
I did time my cravings in early sobriety.
Mine were 5 to 7 minutes in duration.
seemed forever...but that was false.
I took action....drank cold watter ...brushed my teeth
went for a walk...danced around the room...ate Lifesavers
Within 2 weeks they lessened immensley... in both
intensity and duration By 2 months they vanished...
I was also following an eating plan + vitamin supplements
and attending AA each morning before work.
I so hope everyone can find their way....
Recovery Really Rocks....
I think there are 2 types of cravings
perhaps a mixture?
One type is more a habit than physical.
You drive home and your car steers into your
favorite bar or package store.
You come home tired...sit in "your: chair and
want the usual comfort of a glass/can in hand.
To sleeep better...toss down a drink.
These can be avoided by changeing your routine
Drive a different route
Change the furniture around..sit in a different place.
Fix a glass of anything non alcoholic.
If you drink booze from a can...use a glass
If you did drink from a glass...use a mug
I did time my cravings in early sobriety.
Mine were 5 to 7 minutes in duration.
seemed forever...but that was false.I took action....drank cold watter ...brushed my teeth
went for a walk...danced around the room...ate Lifesavers
Within 2 weeks they lessened immensley... in both
intensity and duration By 2 months they vanished...
I was also following an eating plan + vitamin supplements
and attending AA each morning before work.
I so hope everyone can find their way....
Recovery Really Rocks....
It's time to change!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: lake tahoe
Posts: 1,025
Hi, thanks for posting!
For me it's mainly in the late afternoon and nighttime! Yesterday I got home from massaging all day and it hit me like a ton of bricks about 9pm. I started to "entertain" the thought of going down and getting a bottle..... then thought again! It's really not worth it to me.... all those feelings afterwards that'll end up "keeping" me in the bottle!
For me it's mainly in the late afternoon and nighttime! Yesterday I got home from massaging all day and it hit me like a ton of bricks about 9pm. I started to "entertain" the thought of going down and getting a bottle..... then thought again! It's really not worth it to me.... all those feelings afterwards that'll end up "keeping" me in the bottle!
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Attica, MI
Posts: 465
After work for me...no matter what time I get out. On the weekends....usually after morning coffee. So I guess pretty much all the time I'm not working....at my full time job that is. I have found that my cravings are getting MUCH weaker though...almost non exsistent most of the time now, seems as though now after 35 days, I have mental triggers more, less craving. I'll be in a situation or see something, hear something, and it triggers a sudden thought of having a drink. But thank God the physical cravings have dwindled quite a bit.
So far I've made the right choice every time a trigger has come up...no drinks.
Peace.
So far I've made the right choice every time a trigger has come up...no drinks.
Peace.
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