if you can go to bed early without a drink, you'll wake up feeling rested and proud of yourself...

Good luck--keeping the plug in the jug is important

Congrats on new job hopefully stepping up in pay and such the likes

If you are quitting, you might have withdrawal symptoms, such as depression, over the next few days and weeks. Increased anxiety, shakiness,and insomnia (or tiredness) are some of the common things people feel as they detox from alcohol.

Drink lots of water, eat decent meals, and get sleep when you are tired.

So how about it? Are you finally ready to quit? Is this it? I hope so... One thing I found when I quit that life got so much better i was kicking myself that I waited so long to quit.

I would be so anxious and depressed that i drank to feel nothing. Thing was that I was in a cycle of drink , feel bad, drink to feel better, feel bad, get depressed , swear i would not drink , drink , and it was a cycle.

The only way I found to stop it was to get busy doing something else. I go to a 430 meeting when I used to go to the bar.

And the weirdest thing happened when I quit the booze. I stopped being depressed, It was like a magic bullet. The thing that I thought was the answer was the problem.

Break the chain.

1is2many

thanks to all for your sharing. I've been to AA but it's been awhile. I am embarrassed by how much I've been drinking

So are you going to stop drinking?

i drank almost a bottle of liquor and a 12 pack my last night. I will never forget taking that bottle out and pouring it in the sewer the next day. I was done.

Dont feel bad, you are not bad, just reliant upon booze There have been many before you that have stopped, it is possible, cmon lets get moving

1-2

I accept, welcome.

Was there a reason why you stopped going to AA?

Were you working the program when you went out?

I hope you made it through the night without drinking.

i went back to AA countless times after relapse, I was always welcomed back. Decent people are concerned for you when you disappear and are relieved when you return, no matter the circumstances. The helping hand is always there, I found unhealthy pride was all I struggled with.

I would guess that over 90% of us here were not successful the first few times and were also embarrassed or ashamed of ourselves. Please don't feel unique in that regard. It's just part of the process of coming to grips with the problem of alcohol addiction.

With the new job, sounds like an ideal time for you to give sobriety another try. We're here to help as much as we can and don't hesitate to try the AA meeting again if it helps. They will understand and be glad you checked in.

There is a better life for you, trust me. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it!

Robert

Hi everyone, not to use my post as a chat room but thought some words are in order. I'm now up to 4 days not drinking. I know that fatigue is part of pulling back from drinking consistently and at times heavily.

I thought about have some wine tonight and shifted my thinking to that I have a busy day tomorrow and was pretty bushed.

JEFFNEEDS: I did attend AA mainly open meetings for some time and with some consistency. I'd say it was more of attending vs working a program. I do have friends from AA.

FAIRLISE & ROBERTAL - I know that's true. For now, when I do attend a meeting, I'm simply listening and of course, being cordial.

If not tomorrow, I'm likely to go back to any number of 7:30am meetings close to home. Fortunately, there are some that are also all of 5 minutes to work and where I work, most people don't show up until after 9am!! Heck, I can stop for a coffee afterwards and still be on the early side

:)