An Interesting Moment Today

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I live in a cannabis-legal state and drove to another legal state. I was at a casino for an event.

On my way through the parking lot, my boot bumped into a plastic canister. I immediately recognized the tube as a disposable vape pen tube.

I felt a craving come on and there was a dispo nearby, but I let it pass. The tube was, indeed, empty, and I picked it up and threw it away.

What today taught me is that the cravings may strike when I’m not even thinking about it.

But, today, the cravings didn’t win and I’m proud of that.

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You should be proud. It’s always a challenge when it’s right in front of you. And it’s always a great feeling when you have a choice to use or not to use and you choice not to use. Just be strong and take it one day at a time

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Good for you! Things like that happen for me too. I’m grateful to be learning to let them pass, like boats floating down the river (while I’m watching from shore). I don’t have to get on the boat. It eventually floats away with the current, and I can let it go. I’m grateful for that.

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Awesomeness! Thats a BIG win. And hopefully you won at the casino haha.

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Good for you! My wife always tells me she’s grateful her DOC was heroin, not alcohol, because alcohol is everywhere. I guess your experience reminds us, especially those of us relatively new to sobriety, that we have to be vigilant.

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