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Old 11-14-2013, 09:09 PM
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Is this ok?

I've been sober for a week now. When I woke up I knew it was gonna be a rough day. There was no reason for it but all day I felt so much anxiety and I wanted to drink so bad. Finally I went to the store and bought an odouls non alcoholic beer to help the craving. I drank it and it worked with defeating the craving. Was I ok to do this?
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Old 11-14-2013, 09:13 PM
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They always made me want the real thing.

you might be different? I think there's better ways to deal with cravings tho

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-cravings.html

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Old 11-14-2013, 11:33 PM
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TZ, just a thought, but in Germany they mix beer with lemonade. If the non-alcoholic beer starts to make your cravings worse, you could try the mix and slowly increase the amount of lemonade. Other mixers are ginger ale (in Great Britain I believe) and even coke.
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Old 11-14-2013, 11:52 PM
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I would encourage you to develop other ways of getting by- chocolate helped me with craving early on, as well as "urge surfing"
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Old 11-15-2013, 12:23 AM
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I don't know, is it okay? I think that is something you need to personally decide.

I used to wish there was a non-alcoholic whiskey tasting something out there. I thought that if I could find something then I could drink that with my diet coke and all would be well.

It was not the taste I wanted, it was the high. If drinking the non-alcoholic beer is unsatisfying because there is no high then it could lead to the regular kind.
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Old 11-15-2013, 10:24 AM
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If you read the label you'll see there is a small amount of alcohol in odouls.

Drinking N/A beer to stop cravings is a placebo affect. It will do nothing in the long term except fool you into thinking a few "real beers" is OK.

Pay close attention to your diet. I've found that what I eat and drink in the evening will have some affect on how my anxiety level the next morning. Eat healthy for awhile and the cravings will level out.

I never noticed this before because for years I always had beer for breakfast.

Congrats on one sober week! Hope it is the first of many more.
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Old 11-15-2013, 10:42 AM
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Congrats on one week!
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Old 11-15-2013, 10:47 AM
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I personally don't see that as a problem, but it could at as a gateway into drinking again. At an A.A meeting I went to they said, "Non-alcoholic beer is for non-alcoholics.'
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Old 11-15-2013, 11:07 AM
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Congrats on the week. For me it's not o.k. Non-alcoholic beer leads to the real thing.
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Old 11-15-2013, 11:08 AM
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That wouldn't be okay for me. Drinking was "the event" in my social scene, I need to work on eliminating that behavior too. To me it would seem like a pot addict smoking oregano, or a coke addict snorting baby powder. No drug, but still practicing the behavior. Not my place to criticize what does or doesn't work for others though.
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Old 11-15-2013, 11:11 AM
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It raises an intersting question about electronic cigarettes and anti smoking aids which you put in the mouth. Do they cause the user to continue addictive behaviour?
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