Tang

I Know this has been debated on these boards and other places, but I'm curious everyone's opinions. Do you consider your sobriety date the day/time you last drank or 24 hours after that last drink? I've found a lot of sobriety calculators ask for the date/time you had your last drink and count up from there. This is obviously a bit trivial, but it's bothering me . Thanks.

Twinings

I count the day I wake up and don't drink, so 1 sleep after my last.
e.g My sobriety date is 1/12/13 and my last drink was on 30/11/13

I'm not focusing on number of days this time tho.

IOAA2

I would consider it the first non drinking day. In the long run it's measured one day at a time. For me I in a reflex only remember the year............sometimes.

BE WELL

safe2breathe

i consider my sobriety date the day i made the commitment and followed through -- ii imagine it could be different for anyone - but to me it seems like -- if you were sitting in a bar and said "to hell with this - i cant do it anymore " and left right there - id say that was your sobriety date -- if you woke up one morning hungover/half drunk ,naked with dog shampoo in the living room with the stove on and said and did the same thing - id say that was it ...

in short - if you had made the decision and did not drink or use after that - then i think you are free to decide what is most fitting for your "actual date" ... who is anyone else to tell you otherwise ....

deeker

I went with 1st day non drinking and using and I only count total days both clean and sober.

Alot of people have 2 dates. One for booze and one for drugs. That doesn't really suit me and I think if you are doing one or the other since you quit the one you have not been clean.

For example I know someone who has been off alcohol for 3 years but used cocaine till they quit a yr later but they go with the 1st date.

For me that would not be honest to myself and myself alone but I guess some don't care. Not my recovery. I run an honest program.

soberhawk

I have used the same method as Deeker, whole days.

But I have two dates though – smoking is a separate date.

I still drink tea and coffee – and I am keeping those two stimulants.

I did not pay that much attention to the dates in the beginning – but I am looking forward to that I have been of smokes for 100 days.

The dates to matter to me

stevie88

My last drink was the 6th December 2012 so I class the 7th December as my sobriety date.....Same as my last cigarette was 31st December 2013 but my quit date is 1st January 2014.......It's just how my brain works lol.

KateL

When I finally got sober, I think I felt I had cracked it at last, so lost count after about the first week

1newcreation

Was confused bout same thing while ago but was told by old timer that's its following day when you're sober; now seems to be agreed upon by everyone here

Inca

I count my sobriety date as the first day after midnight that I don't have a drink.

Deleteda

I count it as the first day that I am physically sober. I had my last drink at about 3am on the 2nd January, slept and when I woke up I was still drunk and sobered up during that day so Im counting day 1 as the 3rd January.

Notimetoloose

Ist day after waking up from the last drink. 10/11/13 last year..!!YEE HAW!!

sugarbear1

I finished at 2 am on the date I chose as my sobriety date.

to each his own.....

PurpleKnight

My last drink was on a Friday night, but it was 2/3am before blacking out, the following day nursing a hangover, I made the decision to be Sober.

That Saturday I consider my Sobriety date, regardless of drinking in the early hours of the morning, the previous night. I had gone to bed and woken up in what I considered a new day, that day was my first Sober day!!