You know the yearning for a nice cold lager has come to me a few times - when eating curry and also at a street party in Cape Town when everyone around me was enjoying them and it was very hot.

Ive had the same yearning occasionally for a nice galss of red with a meal

White wine?- NEVER

Think of it as a sentimental yearning rather than a need!

Well, stoppit! Think about something else. Unless you're enjoying this torture.

Drink something else that's fizzy. It'll help dampen the craving. Soda, LaCroix, whatever you can come up with!

I had a coke. I guess I will have another one in a few minutes. Dammmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!

'It's the real thing' ha ha!

OK, I use to have cravings for mixed fruity drinks when I went to restaurants. Then I would page forward to the tenth fruity concoction that was inevitably to come-and think how awful it would be to have to drink so much just to satify my craving for one. Because for me, it is never one. Go through the aftermath of what one will bring in your head-even write out what will be the result of this "one". May help.

only because i made the decision to go this route, have you considered antabuse? i have been taking every day so i don't have to make the decision whether i do or don't. there is no decision to be made. i will become violently sick if i drink. some say this is a cop out and your just not dealing with the root problem, but for me it has given me sober time to change my behavior and give me a chance to make it when i quit taking this drug in a couple of months. it's only a tool. but for me it is working. i did stare at that first dose of antabuse for an hour before i took it. that was the hard decision. just a thought. i did like anchor steam beer

I am on a very restricted med list due to my liver. Probably the main incentive for me not to drink is that it will sure kill me.

KK I see there is a lot more of you for us to love.

get in line hef.........

Shall we play a cucumber game??

Have a nice glass of juice with lots of ice.

Brocodan I like the fact that you called antabuse a "tool". You still made the concious decision on your own. Good for you. Keep it up.

I had a craving for a bottle of wine with tonight's pizza when i was shopping this afternoon. I was a angry about something and it led to me feeling sorry for myself I guess and the desire to "treat" myself because a bit of me still sees having a glass of wine with dinner as a nice thing to do, forgetting about the consquences of it.

Good for you for thinking it through, Georgie. I'm proud of you!