Change your mindset! You should be elated you no longer are drinking and a slave to alcohol. You are not giving ANYTHING UP and depriving yourself of anything good! Feel the excitement of what you are achieving. The only way you can control this is to not drink and what are you craving anyway?

Are you honestly craving
tiredness
headaches
stomach upsets
weak and aching muscles
heart palpitations
the shakes
the sweats
the shivers
difficult breathing
anxiety
irritability
mood swings
nervousness
depression
confusion
guilt
loathing

????????

What other hobbies are you going to adopt for all of this free time you are going to have on your hands feeling good and healthy? I am excited to hear!

Super job. Keep it up.

Way to go CPB!! So proud of doing what you know is right for YOU -- and only you know that. Honesty will be one of your biggest tools and surrender... There are good days and bad days in everything, including sobriety and the urge to drink. keeping moving and doing the next right thing and sometimes changing my physical place in the house is what I would employ when a particularly strong craving would hit. There are times when I would just get out of the house and go for a walk or do pushups or some kind of quick exercise. Anything to take your mind of booze for a bit. For me, it would take 10-15 minutes for the craving to pass and usually that reprieve would last several hours if not all day. I told my closest friends that I don't drink because I'm an alcoholic and for me that was very liberating and important to me to just get that out there. They have all been very supportive in the process. As I was closet drinker, they had no idea the level to which my drinking had escalated. We are here for you Pam!! Your friend in the journey, PG

I guess anxiety and what healthy behavior I can replace the feel of wine with. Sits in my shoulders. Ive never been a touchy person but think some self care in a massage at the cosmetology school might be an idea. Wont break the bank.... and will give me some healthy choice for the tension.

Its a better day already because of my friends here at ds and I'm sober):

Alcohol was basically all sugar. So think when a craving hits to get some candy or soda. It isn't a good long term move but in the beginning ice cream saved my as. Booze was all sugar. Fight the crave by giving the body something sweet.

I also recommend having a few phone numbers and just talking to another person is like magic. A problem shared is a problem halved

Just say I don't drink. I used to but now I don't. I quit a million times but would just obsess of another drink. This time I just say that's not an option anymore. I concentrate on what's good nit what I'm missing. I have had my share , cause I've drank enough for 5 lifetimes.

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Congratulations on your resolve and newfound sobriety.

I have 2 years sober rom alcohol and the cravings do go away. Once you experience the wonderful benefits of getting significant sober time drinking will seem positively distasteful and disgusting and you won't want to do it anymore. i am so much happier being sober.

Since I've been sober and directly as a result of it I lost 30 lbs, wrote a new novel after being stuck on the same one for years, had a great long-term relationship and essentially fell into the best years of my life. The long nightmare of drinking is over and I am finally the person I want to be. You can get sober too.