Psst...wanna know why I'm always recommending recovery plans?
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Bullseye
Strange as it seems now, for many years I would try to quit by not drinking and then hoping I would not feel like drinking again.
Well, golly - I was addicted to alcohol. OF COURSE I would feel like drinking again. When that feeling came I would react to it by hoping it would go away. When it didn't in a few hours or days, I was back to drinking.
Hope: it's a great thing, but it isn't a PLAN.
The next time I feel like drinking I will _________________ instead.
Fill in the blank. That's the simplest short-term plan I know. It works if you use it.
Strange as it seems now, for many years I would try to quit by not drinking and then hoping I would not feel like drinking again.
Well, golly - I was addicted to alcohol. OF COURSE I would feel like drinking again. When that feeling came I would react to it by hoping it would go away. When it didn't in a few hours or days, I was back to drinking.
Hope: it's a great thing, but it isn't a PLAN.
The next time I feel like drinking I will _________________ instead.
Fill in the blank. That's the simplest short-term plan I know. It works if you use it.
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Join Date: Aug 2014
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Perfect. This is my nail biting moments go to. In the long term plan there is more and these moments have gotten fewer and farther between but cravings still strike. And in that moment "instead I will _______"
Thanks for the Action plan Dee it is just what I needed. I am going to share it with others and not necessarily alcoholic. Think I'll start with the healthy food and water plan as I have lost a lot of weight, probably due to Valium WD . I'm doing really well there too down to 3.75mg. It is a slow arduous WD but has to be slow. The Action Plan is great.........who knows one day I might be in a girl's rock band which I intend to call The Rock Cakes for all you cooks out there. I love you all in a good way.
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