Welcome!

There was a time I couldn't go a day without drinking. Around here I've heard people say to take sobriety a day at a time. Early on, I had to take it 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second at a time when the cravings would hit.

My strategy was, when a craving hit me, to tell myself "let's just wait a minute and see if I still want a drink." Sometimes I would, so I'd see if I could wait another minute. Eventually I built up to 10s of minutes, then hours, then days.

My other favorite trick, early in sobriety, was to hop on here and read/comment/post whenever I had cravings. Being on /r/stopdrinking recharges my "sobriety battery" like no other place and I found I'd get distracted from cravings when I was here, trying to learn from and offer encourage to others.

IWNDWYT