ScottFromWI

Well, if there's a silver lining it's that you know about it and can prepare yourself mentally and also have a plan for staying sober. What other people say and think is really another one of those things that's beyond our control - so it's pretty much a waste of time to even consider it or let them have the space rent free in your head so to speak.

thomas11

rootin for ya secretcord. I know you have it in you to win this battle.

secretchord

Thanks @thomas11

PhoenixJ

support to you

DriGuy

Doing something else when the cravings hit is a great help. It doesn't have to be exercise, although exercise certainly never hurt anyone.

One mistake I made before I quit was to react to cravings by doing battle with them mentally. Since this was before I quit, you would be right to assume that I always lost the battle. I put up a good show for a while, but I always lost. A better approach for me was to run from them. Specifically, I ran to meetings, rather than a tread mill. But I think the point is that this was different that mentally battling the cravings, which caused me to focus on the cravings (they won't go away by focusing on them, at least not for me). Focusing on them for me was the ultimate example of sitting on the pity pot and lamenting my sad state of affairs: "Oh poor me. I need a drink so bad and I can't not go without a drink."

Sobriety is partly about not focusing on cravings. Eventually, that becomes your default state in recovery, and the sooner you get used to not thinking about alcohol, the sooner you will reach that desired default.

secretchord

2 weeks sober today

Newbeginning421

Congrats on 2 weeks keep up the good work!

Misssy2

very cool! me 9 days