I go to a Meeting,infact i have to go now take care.

Make yourself a special drink, something with your favorite ingredients. non alcoholic of course:0) Relax and drink it outside if thats where you like to. Its about habits. enjoy that drink and you will be so happy when you wake up tomorrow without a hangover. Thats what I do. We can relax without a drink. We just forget how to do it.

before AA i would drink eventually... why bother to fight it and go through all the grief anyway...
when I sobered up though.. i prayed to have the obsession removed,,, and it worked...i didn;t eeven know what/whom i was praying to except it was not the guy in the mirror...u see.. my ideas attitudes and emotions always got me drunk...
AA's deal did get me sober bu the Grace of a God that i did not know...
ithink i wil ldo it agian tomorrow...
God Bless
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I go out shopping or to the late night book store till my eyes can barely stay open. If I can't leave I take a super long bath and give myself a mini mani & pedi, visit a neighbor, read or do housework.

it gets bad in oregon, i start havesting grapes in mid september, i get a day off in sometime of early november. i go from sunny days at start to getting dark at 5:30 pm. usually 10 t0 13 hour days. try drying out under those conditions.

in reguards to keeping sober, you need other habbits. vidio games can do it for me sometimes. that or lots of coffee. the bottom line is replace your habbit with a healthier habbit, i think thats key. this is comming from a guy that still drinks so take it as a grain of sand

In AA I have learned to ask every morning for my higher power to keep me sober and thank him every night. I'm still early in the program and much of the obsession has been removed.

yeah, great fun in the day but somehow i lost my days-and nights. not so much fun, anymore. i remember my humiliations, the disgust on my families face and friends, the pity, the hospitals the jails and then get to a meeting and my sponsor. love, devon

Hi - Apple juice with lots of ice helps me. I know exactley what you mean - you think "why me?" I too am an evening drinker, I try and get my head around it's 4 hours out of 24.
Good luck my friend- Les123

6oz of pineapple juice, 3oz cran/apple juice, top off with white grape juice in a 16oz glass did wonders for me. also, taking a walk around the block, calling a friend and hard candy. the urge usually lasted around 10-15 minutes for me and when all else seems to be failing a small "God help me" prayer. good luck

Remember the longer you stay sober, the urges will go away. When i was first going to AA, I just went everyday.Got rid of all the old friends,infact i put a sign on my door, went to AA please don't knock lmao. it worked they stopped coming around. it is wierd how misery loves company. lol Now i see these same ppl doing the same things around our city walking around aimlessly, and going through trash can's.

When i went thru a program a few yrs back, they use to put honey in our coffee, cause the urges are usually cause of the sugar in alcohol. and it helps with withdrawals.

Simple is the key to sobriety. My sponsor always told me to KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid. All these suggestion mentioned are great but there are two things that work for me. 1) Get that dusty copy of your Big Book down and read. 2) Call someone in the program. Always be grateful for a grateful drunk will not drink. But the think is OzKim call someone and talk... chances are you will not drink.

I am also a night drinker. I still have that obsession to drink. What I do is go on-line and chat with my new found friends. Then I have a lemon tea with honey. It does help. You'll find a way to over come your obsession too. Hang in there. Being sober is better than being dirt drunk.

Yep, sweets and juice can fix that up right quick for you. and definitly call a member. You know how much we love to be there to help. lol

Best time to hit a meeting or call a sponsor is when we want to drink. This is a WE program not a ME program. You never know who needs to get out of their head as well!!! This program is decievingly simple - this I read once from a man with 60 years. The promises DO come true as a result of working steps 1 - 9 to the best of our ability. If we do that, I promise you there is a VERY BIG CHANCE you will "recoil form alcohol as if from a hot flame." But I will say this, the fear you have right now is good. I don't mean to sound negative, but that fear of taking a drink keeps me aware that my problem isn't just the alochol, my problem is ME. My best thinking is what got me where I was - thus I need the help of others, and ultiimately a God of MY UNDERSTANDING,to get ME out of ME.