SURVEY: What is your new clean/sober ADDICTION?
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Exercise! It's like it's my personal mission to see how much I can get out of the $63 I pay a month to the gym. I think they are losing just based on the hot water and electricity I use in the locker room 6 days a week... lol.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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hmmm....music, food, driving, smoking ( I know it's bad), caffiene (this too), shopping, ebay, SR.
I'm also addicted to living without booze in my life and finding new things and avenues to keep me on the right track in recovery.
I'm also addicted to living without booze in my life and finding new things and avenues to keep me on the right track in recovery.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Tonawanda, NY
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hiking, I go nearly everyday- and i saw someone put this earlier but water- I have this water bottle called FRED it looks kinda like a vodka bottle ( i didn't notice til people pointed it out, i just bought it for the name b/c my mom used to call me Fred)...But FRED comes with me everywhere- He gets frozen everynight and hangs with me all day... wierd, but im ok with it- he's my sober buddy at the moment!
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 32
What is it with recovery and tea? I love it, too. I found some new milder flavors at the grocery store that I'm loving! Also: reading, playing with my daughter, gaming, marveling at how much better I feel, cooking on the stove rather than the microwave, and of course, SR!
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: TX
Posts: 27
What an awesome poll! You all are totally inspiring, I am definitely going to try some of your HEALTHIER addictions and try to make them my own. 
Find it funny/interesting that so many listed TEA. Wonder why that is?
Immediately as I embarked on recovery, I found myself obsessively online shopping. So much so that I've since stopped entirely, as I don't see it as a positive distraction and rather a replacement addiction.
Since then, I've become fanatical about reading and organizing my enormous library of digital photos. Busy work that keeps my mind off of using and brings me comfort, relief and happiness.
Find it funny/interesting that so many listed TEA. Wonder why that is?
Immediately as I embarked on recovery, I found myself obsessively online shopping. So much so that I've since stopped entirely, as I don't see it as a positive distraction and rather a replacement addiction.
Since then, I've become fanatical about reading and organizing my enormous library of digital photos. Busy work that keeps my mind off of using and brings me comfort, relief and happiness.
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Mine is reading memoirs written by former alcoholics. I'm really addicted. I've noticed I've been eating more junk/fast food lately too (in combination with the reading, usually) and I would like to knock that off. But I guess the reading is an okay substitute "addiction." I really do feel addicted to reading these books.
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: New York City
Posts: 221
1 Meetings
2 Diet Tonic and NA Bitters (cranberry, Fee Brothers)
3 Finally have the mental fortitude to practice 4-7 hours a day of Jazz Guitar! A day at a time, I'm getting pretty good! I found it really helps me at night when I would normally crave bad. It's hard enough to keep my mind busy, and pleasurable enough to keep me doing it!
2 Diet Tonic and NA Bitters (cranberry, Fee Brothers)
3 Finally have the mental fortitude to practice 4-7 hours a day of Jazz Guitar! A day at a time, I'm getting pretty good! I found it really helps me at night when I would normally crave bad. It's hard enough to keep my mind busy, and pleasurable enough to keep me doing it!
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