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9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 11226

Glad to hear you are working on it. Perhaps if you plan activities that require you to get up and go this might help with the mind chatter. What do you think?

Ashley, Health Educator

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9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 38

Hi Ashley,
Today I am fine. I am working. During the weekdays it is extremely rare that I will drink. I might have some little cravings, but they know better. The answer is NO!!! I wish I could do that all the time, but when the weekend is here BANG! there I go, but I am working on it.

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 11226

hi Me101,

What you are going through is completely normal. It is not easy to give up any habit, expecially when your habit/addiction is alcohol. You have the right idea though, distract yourself as much as you can. Also, try to radically accept these cravings and thoughts as part of the process. They will subside and it will be really hard but it sounds like you have the insight and the drive to do it. How are you doing today?

Ashley, Health Educator

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9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 345

So, why not take a stand and tell yourself you will no longer be manipulated by the advertisers? Sure the government makes bags of money on it's sale although given the cost of human suffering and the number of hospital and publicly funded programs, I really wonder what the bottom line is. You must recognize that all kinds of things are advertised that you do not take any interest in. So why not adopt that same mindset when it comes to alcohol? It's just one more product out there in a sea of others that the stakeholders are trying to convince you to purchase. Like you did with cigarettes, just say "no." Unfortunately our greatest nemesis is not the government or advertisers when it comes to any product, it's us. We convince ourselves that we want it, then need it, then buy it. Blame yourself because consuming alcohol is a choice. So, what will you choose to do today? I choose not to drink because the only one who has any true influence over my actions is...."me!"

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 38

It`s realy nice to see other people just like me who understand. On the other hand it is so sad that in our societies alcohol has so much leway, power over all of us. I think the government is a little to blame. I see commercial, over commercials, and adds in magazines, and news papers, and bill boards, pamphlets promoting the dam stuff. Here in Montreal it is realy accessable. I wish for me, because other people who do not have a problem would say I have no problem with it. That it would just be hidden from view like they do with tobaco. It is out of view, no commercials no poblicities. I have quit smoking for ten years now. I tried for ten years to quit, but it was everywhere, now you can not smoke any where and it is hidden. I think when it comes to alcohol the Government makes Billlions of dollars of it, so I do not think we are going to see any real change in the future. Even if it is the leading cause of most of our problems in society. Meaning, car crashes, teens overdosing, relationship physical abuse, and I could go on for a whole other page about the negative effects of alcohol, and yet It is still there. Wow that felt good, and yet with all that said I am still drinking. WOW!

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

By the end of the day I am on my way to the beer store,and sitting at home drinking beer wishing I was doing something else.

This is the queer mental twist that the big book talks about. Our so call willpower is totally non-existent when it comes to booze. We invariably succumb to the justification, the mind comes up with just prior to that first drink and then we take that drink. Then the physical craving kicks in. In my case, I had the illusion that if I don't store booze in my house I will not drink more than necessary. But then I would make several trips to the gas station/package store the whole evening.

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

By the end of the day I am on my way to the beer store,and sitting at home drinking beer wishing I was doing something else.

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 345

Hi me101, It is so easy to take the path of least resistance. To sit and drink until we go to bed and pass out. To look into our blood shot eyes and curse ourselves the next day because now we get to go to work feeling lousy. Envying people who do interesting things and seemingly have it all. Thing is, we can be that person we envy, we just prefer to sit and drink and get fatter and fatter, glassy eyed, watching TV programs we'll never remember. It is a choice. Now me101, you must choose whether this is what you want the rest of your life to look like. Not long ago I went to a funeral where virtually everyone who shared a story about the deceased commented about how much she drank. I know I do not want to be remembered that way. How about you? Your choice!

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 38

I woke up this moring saying to myself today I rather not drink, and do something different. After work I will go to the movies, and have supper somewhere. It is now 9:30am I am at work, and I am having thoughts of going home and doing my usual routine. Which is sitting on the couch drinking beer, and wishing I was doing something else. I try and talk myself out of it, but it is hard. The feelings do eventualy leave, and then I tell myself what the hell was I thinking, but the desires of drinking always comes back, and every time they come back harder, and harder, and harder. By the end of the day I am on my way to the beer store,and sitting at home drinking beer wishing I was doing something else. It is insane the energy I put in just thinking opf not drinking. I know if I realy would want to I would not drink. I would force myself not to drink, and yet I am here writing this saying to myself yeah right. What does this mean? Does this mean I want to keep drinking? or does it mean I do not want to drink. I feel I am in the very middle of a fight between me, and my addiction. Some people say the side that will win is the side you feed the most. Well at times I realy feed more the side of not drinking, and then I do the same to the other side, so I am back at square one. Where do I go from here? Help.

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