How about?just for today I choose not to gamble.
keep coming back.

One day at at a time. Keep coming back for support.

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I think you should set a goal. I think this time you should aim for more than 6 months, even if it's 6 months 1 day.

Like most gym-goers, the strategy is to improve on your last, so if you could lift 10kg for a week, the next week's goal is 11kg and so on.

Keep coming back here.

Josh...I am so proud of you...for 6 months you did it...I will be honest with you and everyone else...I have been gamble free for 498 days...I have learned so much BUT TONITE I am STRUGGLING...the trigger of EXTREME BOREDOM is getting me...I have been talking myself out of going for 4 hours...I keep praying for this to go away...BUT I WANT TO GO...what is keeping me from going is for 16 months it is nice not having had those obessive thoughts, when can I go again...that is the ONLY thing that is keeping me from going...not my daughter who I just called who in turn called my BROTHER who just called me and gave me the "lecture or advice" that I have given out to others on here for over 16 months...right now I am just HOPING and PRAYING that tomorrow I can say I made it 499 days...Josh please take care my friend...Hugs Becky

Whew...thank you all for listening, I chatted with a very good friend on here that has about a year and a half gamble free; and I thank
God literally for her tonite...she had went to bed but for some reason got up and got on the computer and wow did I ever NEED her...she helped me so MUCH that I am going to make it one more day gamble free..thank you Jay...and hang tight Josh...Hugs Becky

Sue, it is interesting to see that someone with 498 days under their belt (499 by the time you read this) still has the urges.

I'm a bit more than 12 months now, and the voice still speaks to me, although it is more of a whisper. I do wonder sometimes, will it ever go away?

I don't have nearly as much time GF as many of you, but it makes me a little more calmer to know that the urges are not uncommon. I guess it just comes down to how much you listen to them, and what you do when those voices come to you.

I must say that I have had MAJOR lifestyle changes...I am use to driving for a living 250 miles a day minimum and on July 3 in pain and ended up with 2 bulging discs in lower back and 3 in neck,plus fibro and arthritis, so I have been off work now into my third week..and not much improvement in the health area urgh..last nite I was so SICK of watching TV and all my mind would think of was having FUN..but in my recovery mind I KNEW dang good and well the fun I was seeking would only turn into really a major crisis if I did go and gamble...honestly I was so sick & tired of whom I had become only one time I had urge to go in this 499 days of recovery and it was a trigger of ANGER and I talked myself out of going...thank God I had TOOLS (and family and a friend) who talked common sense into me..if not I would have HATED myself today for sure...I was a regular on here for about 14 months and the last 2 I haven't been...I know where I NEED to be STILL...I so APPRECIATE my DS family and I am BACK...take care all and for today, just today I will REMAIN gamble free...HUGS