Stopped smoking but still drinking
Stopped smoking but still drinking
Today was day 4 off alcohol. Day7 off the smokes. Giving up smokes is easy compared to alcohol. I had terrible asthma and was nearly suffocating at night. The alcohol alters your mind. The smokes don't. So I must be a true alcoholic. Now what to do about it.
Try and have something that occupies you when you know the cravings will be at their peak. They are much more easily ignored it your mind is on something else.
Congratulations on day 4 sweetichick
Congratulations on day 4 sweetichick
Thanks Anvil that I go back and read previous posts. Really eyeopening. Still drinking but not smoking. The money will run out soon. Only $8 for two bottles of wine and $36 for a packet of smokes. I'm sure I am almost a heretic here now. At least I won't suffocate to death.
I think everyone understands how hard it is sweetichick but the more weeks you just let yourself drift down to the bottlo and back the harder it's going to be to quit.
what about saving whatever money you have left to buy some food and put some petrol in the car to get to meetings?
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what about saving whatever money you have left to buy some food and put some petrol in the car to get to meetings?
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True Dee. I'm just scared I won't cope with no smoking. But I have got health concerns re drinking. Drinking gets rid of pain. Smoking is just feeding the addict. I feel like I am digging a hole for myself with drinking.
actually the longer you drink for pain the more alcohol you'll need sweetichick - and you'll find your pain is more & more regular and greater in intensity because you'll want a drink.
Then if you're like me - alcohol will stop working for pain completely.
There's gotta be other pain relief options available for you.
Your Dr is a good first stop, I think.
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Then if you're like me - alcohol will stop working for pain completely.
There's gotta be other pain relief options available for you.
Your Dr is a good first stop, I think.
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sweetichick G'Morning! It is morning here anyway. I just had to add to what Dee said. Soon...alcohol does stop working for pain. Then you drink more and more which makes more pain with butt ugly hangovers. Then if you really want to push it as I have done in the past....you will find yourself "drinking yourself sober" at least that is what I called it. Of course you are not sober after staying up all night drinking to kill all the pain..you have simply upped your tolerance for alcohol so much that NOTHING WILL WORK ...except you. I am posting here...I am starting a journal ...I am even deep breathing...I also am reading books on how alcohol effects your body. Don't recommend that to all because it has scared the stuffings out of me. The point is we all have to find our own way. I wish you well. If you look at the good (only 2 things on my list) vs the bad effects of drinking...the bad comes out ahead. Keep that in mind. I am sure you already noticed that!
sweetichick - you have to come to believe that alcohol is not HELPING you, it is harming you and will never stop. unless YOU stop drinking. any pain you feel is FROM the alcohol. detoxing does not come without some discomfort, but it will be temporary.
I have also stopped smoking, about 5 years ago now, and I was a chain smoker - known to my friends as the Man with the Golden Finger.
Comparing my experience of giving up smoking vs. alcohol, the main difference was that I found it far easier to accept that I had to give up cigarettes completely than I do drink. It took a lot longer but I have eventually got there with drink, mainly through through learning about the many facets of alcoholism, mainly from SR, and I now know that I have to close the door completely on drink.
Accepting and surrending to this is making it much easier - I'm on day 35 and I have been much more at ease the last couple of days for this reason.
Comparing my experience of giving up smoking vs. alcohol, the main difference was that I found it far easier to accept that I had to give up cigarettes completely than I do drink. It took a lot longer but I have eventually got there with drink, mainly through through learning about the many facets of alcoholism, mainly from SR, and I now know that I have to close the door completely on drink.
Accepting and surrending to this is making it much easier - I'm on day 35 and I have been much more at ease the last couple of days for this reason.
I have also stopped smoking, about 5 years ago now, and I was a chain smoker - known to my friends as the Man with the Golden Finger.
Comparing my experience of giving up smoking vs. alcohol, the main difference was that I found it far easier to accept that I had to give up cigarettes completely than I do drink. It took a lot longer but I have eventually got there with drink, mainly through through learning about the many facets of alcoholism, mainly from SR, and I now know that I have to close the door completely on drink.
Accepting and surrending to this is making it much easier - I'm on day 35 and I have been much more at ease the last couple of days for this reason.
Comparing my experience of giving up smoking vs. alcohol, the main difference was that I found it far easier to accept that I had to give up cigarettes completely than I do drink. It took a lot longer but I have eventually got there with drink, mainly through through learning about the many facets of alcoholism, mainly from SR, and I now know that I have to close the door completely on drink.
Accepting and surrending to this is making it much easier - I'm on day 35 and I have been much more at ease the last couple of days for this reason.
Hey sobernun, doing well with not smoking. I am tapering off the alcohol. I had too many nightmares last night about death. Really scary. One bottle a day for 3 days then nothing. Too scared of withdrawals. I would go to Àa tonight but just not well enough. I need a few days off alcohol to get some strength back.
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