I wanted to use. I was just going about my day and it sprung up on me. It has been for the last few days now. They say that it happens from time to time but it will go away. When does it go away?
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My thoughts of drinking, the obsessive interest with alcohol, and cravings all subsided as I actively worked to build up my recovery. I used the program of AA and individual counseling to help me get there.
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When you find out, please tell us all. Good luck tho. I am starting to realise I can never drink. Or take drugs. I think about both daily. And that’s okay, it’s the time I think about it, and go and get it which is the problem.
You can ignore it the first 50 times, but then something maybe different that last time. Stress, boredom, emotional, family, work, nostalgia, addction … hard to ignore all the stresses that stem from those things.
Find what is triggering you to think about it.
Then focus on that.
It’s not worth continuing regardless how good it makes you feel. It’s just not worth it - if you are like me. Please ignore those thoughts to use.
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Can I ask, were you really wanting to use? Or was it that voice of temptation telling you to use? Big difference.
I call those thoughts, the voice of temptation. I don’t believe that voice ever completely goes away. It didn’t when I had 9 years sober and it still creeps up and tries to whisper in my ear at 3 years sober.
But while it doesn’t go away completely, it does lessen… and over time I’ve learnt strategies that help.
For me, accepting and being at peace with the fact that I cannot drink, that i choose not to drink - that I am now a non drinker that won’t drink today and have no intention of drinking tomorrow - makes it easier for me to move on from that voice. When it whispers, I acknowledge it, shut in down by telling it to fuck off and move on with what I was doing or find something of interest to do.
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Gonna take something from that myself 
thank you
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