Hang in there! Ride out those cravings. You can do it! Maybe go here and have a laugh? http://dailystrength.org/groups/need-a-good-laugh

Do not listen to that voice!!! Thinik about how you will feel tomorrow....is it really worth it.....use the logical part of your brain....remember where you came from...your last drunk or the worse one, do you want that? do you really want to feel those feelings that drinking brings? You just have to get through this...one moment at a time.....

I am right were you are too....I have cravings too, but I have to keep reminding myself that," that voice" is not logic, its the bad ide of me, I do not want anymore.

I saw someone on here write a letter saying goodbye to their friend alcohol....I need to do that too and maybe that can help you too....let go of that old comfort....it is not your freind....but evil....and will olny do you harm....

Try to find another way to treat yourself....take the money you would have spent on that bottle and get a book, a starbucks coffee, whatever....be good to yourself.....You will get through this!

dipso,

I go through those periods too.

Eventually those thoughts go away but ONLY if you don't give in to them for a while.

When I was sober 22 years, it took a while but 21 of the 22 years the thought didn't cross my mind, until that stupid day that I decided to experiment. Oy vey

Get busy doing something to get your mind occupied. You can do it. Phone a friend or stay on here. It will pass, don't sit an dwell on them. That is not good.

Hi Dipso,I'm very new here ,just want to say I know that feeling all to well.It scares me to death every time!I have not gone without a drink longer then 3 days in the last 5 years.Something or someone always seems to justify it for me.I love to hate it,and hate to love it.What do we do!

Well, thats the joy of being sober, you have a choice. You know whats right for you. Lots of things that are wrong for me, I would love to do, but do I want the consequences. If your having trouble about thinking of drinking, stop it and get busy doing something. If I'm busy doing something, or trying to help someone, I most likely won't be thinking about drinking. My mind needs to be focused on other things. Idle time sometimes allows me to start thinking wrong. When I find myself doing that, it's an indication that I need to get off my ass and get busy doing something. All the best. James

I agree with the getting busy part.

Sitting here and typing (at least for me) didn't help me when I drank that glass of wine over a month ago. I needed to go do something and not sit here and dwell on it.

Deserve it?
I have not had a phicical craving since I went through withdrawel, now I deal with the head trip that booze plays. I had been sober almost 6 years when I gave into the ol' "Why Not?"
Well, it took me ten years the loss of everything, homelessness, battered woman's shelter, family gone before I was able to crawl back to AA on my hands and knees.
I am sober a year and a bit again today, I still get, "Why Not" somedays, I just don't have another ten years to devote to drinking. I am lucky, I made it back, I have a lot of dead friends who were not that lucky.
This is not about the couple of hours of escape you think you will get, this is your life! How do you know that that bottle isn't the one that keeps you drunk for ten years or worse.
Dying from alcoholism is a rude and horrific way to die, I know, I work in a field were I clean up the scene after the coroner leaves. Have scraped a few drunks off the bathroom floor, not pretty, and because of the disease most aren't found right away because people stop caring about people who won't help themselves.
Sorry to be harsh, I take sobriety very seriously, we are all just that one drink away from maybe never making it back.
One slip is not fine, take it from someone who lost everything and almost my life, it AINT worth it. Marina

awful feeling, my prayers are with you. when all was lost and i had cravings, sometimes i would eat a lot just to get me through that day, as i was less likely to drink on a full stomach. for the long haul of quitting though, i dont know. i also took that pill that makes you sick when you drink, i drank in the morning though so i would sometimes be more resolved to drink than take the pill. if your cravings come later in the day and your resolve is stronger in the am, perhaps getting this pill (the name escapes me) would help. again, prayers to you

I found the following two sayings and their practical application to be valuable when I had cravings:

1. Pray the crave away

2. Move a muscle, change a thought

If you go to meetings, a meeting might help. If you don't, well, a meeting might help. As well, calling someone else who is going through what you are going through or has gone through it themselves might not hurt either. When I had two days, someone who had 14 days helped me immensely - sometimes and in someways, more than an oldtimer with multiple years could have.

Just hang in there and no matter what, even if your arse falls off, do not drink.

have you tried aa yet?

Im am so touched by everyones support, kind words and great wisdom.

I think I figured out what made me so tempted. It seems as I do each new thing I would never have done before that I feel thoses urges to self medicate and go back to the drink.

I got as far as the off licence but did not go in - and Ive ignored the beer my partner keeps at home.

Thank you my freinds. No i havent tried AA, but I have a telephone appt with our local addiction centre next week. My doctor organised it.

My urge has passed, I coped with food and sleep instead - major sugar overload. My partner wanted our house cleaned before he comes home but I dont think that will happen lol.

Thank you, it has meant so much, this place is a great haven.

Untill i realized that i couldn't have a craving if i hadn't tasted it yet.. it means go out for a walk, take a hot shower or read a book cause its the obsession of a drink i was wanting.. the feeling of wow, i could crawl into that dark hole again and dissapear for a night or a few days... but, i would much rather be sober today... you can do it too!!

Good for you, dipso!!! That is fantastic!! Now when the crazy committee comes acallin again, and it most likely will, you know you can beat it and perhaps with ever decreasing effort.
Congrats!

Hang in there Dipso!!! You dont' REALLY want to go there right? Hungry, angry lonely, tired? Bored?.. for me, those were just a few of my triggers so to speak.. hang out here for a while or go get a good movie and some pizza maybe? a meeting? whatever it takes! don't go there..