WastedTimes

Hi All. I haven't posted in a while, but I am a daily lurker, so first off a big thank you to everyone that shares their experiences and does post. It's a big help to me seeing all of your own struggles and successes.

I have gone 33 days. The difference this time around is that every time I think of alcohol I immediately tell myself, "it's poison, (literally), it is not an option". And this time, I am intentionally not counting the days. I am just trying to focus on the fact that "I won't drink today" and that I must just live my life as it is, whatever that entails.

My question is that I know cravings happen. I have read a lot on here about riding them out and that has helped immensely. But I am finding them coming more often these days. So I was wondering if anyone has found that they sometimes get cravings for an hour or a few hours or what not (what I typically think of as a craving), but also, if anyone get's waves of bad days strung together. Like a crappy week of cravings. Just knowing that a craving will pass in a few hours makes it that much more tolerable. So I was hoping the same held true of "weekly cravings" if there is indeed such a thing...

And on different note, I absolutely love my non-hungover, sober weekend coffee (so much so, that I now drink two)!

Sorry this took so long to write, thanks for reading!

escapist

I had weeks of bad days. It does get better. Sugarbear told me that 90 days would feel so different from 60. She was right.

hypochondriac

Well done on 33 days Wastedtimes!

I found my cravings lasted longer if I focused on them too much. It's kind of like how one negative thought leads to another. It sounds daft but my biggest tool was distraction. Every time I had a craving I thought 'well you can't drink so best do something else'. In the early days I had a list of stuff I enjoyed doing which wasn't drinking and just did something off that til the craving passed.