I stopped reading the newspaper for about 3 years, except for Saturday when I would catch up on sports and puzzles. The negativity got to me, stressed me out. After a dozen years sober, I deactivated my Facebook account for the same reason.
Be mindful what you eat and drink and put into your mind 
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Yup I did that too! Especially with hashish. Dumped it somewhere, then going back to the dealers to buy some more the next day
Did many odd things… Great topic! I believe it was odd that once when I had money and was craving drugs, I bought about 45€-55€ worth of sweets, chocolate and popcorn and just so many different sweets on a few occasions and guess who ate nearly all of it in one day xD
Another odd thing: I just started randomly whenever I was driving bus, sober or not to put my fingers on my knuckles of the other hand and make a circling movement on each knuckle in a rhythm and was whispering or thinking in that same rhythm: I love staying clean (or actually “Ich liebe es clean zu sein” in German) and I still do it sometimes when driving bus and only years after I started doing this heard that that can be a mental technique similar to Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques. So yea that’s kinda odd but seems to help, at least now I’m back sober 39 days yay!
I started sleeping on the opposite side of my bed, I’ve never moved back and don’t plan to. 
I also stuck post-it notes all over my flat, with negative things about using and positive things about not using, they were everywhere!
Aside from being on here a lot.
I started doing word searches like crazy! 
Along with reading articles, and watching YouTube vids of sober people!
Yeah I did in the past.
Even if I threw it away, gave it away or poured it out I would always replace it within hours. I guess living with my brother this time around and being constantly watched was a great asset (didn’t feel that way at the time).
I carried M&Ms with me everywhere, and chomped on a few whenever I had an urge to drink. Sometimes taking a bite of a Milky Way or a Snickers bar worked the same way. Seems the sweet chocolate calms the booze urge by mimicing its sugar content.
My taste for sweets went up ten fold!
Actually chocolate also contains some Substances that works as a natural mood boost.
Don’t know the names in English but they are connected to the serotonin levels.
Not sure I did too many odd things.
Sometimes I have my husband order the non alcoholic drinks from the kids meny for me so I won’t be tempted to buy something else.
He is the type of person that takes everyone’s orders, memorize them and then order for everyone just so he’ll get a chance to chat with the servers, or the chef, or whoever it is where we are 
3 and a half years later still eating chocolate nearly everyday conscious of my extra weight, it’s OK though because while I was drinking and drugging I wasn’t conscious of anything.
I completely rearranged / threw out all glassware and anything that was associated with my “drinking routine/ritual” … including the last outfit I wore on the night I decided to stop. I also rearranged all furniture / pictures / etc so that my environment looked completely new … as if literally walking into the door of a sober life.
I deleted all my social media to avoid people I used to use with or with who I would sell too. It eliminated a lot of temptation. It helped tremendously. Once doing this I realized how much time I wasted scrolling and found new productive things to do with my time. It took a long time to get used to but now I don’t miss it at all and I’ll never use social media again.
Never did i just went to AA before this i never considered stopping .
I started waking up clear headed every day, so odd! I even exercised, ate well, hydrated and landed a job I enjoy. All super odd!
I have a cookie ever night, plus a square of dark chocolate.
This is gold. Do you mind if I borrow this technique Laura? I love this! It’s bold and brave and empowering.
I’ve retired it now so it’s all yours man!
Hahahaha! Yeah…right! “I’m only buying 4 bc that’s all I’m going to drink today” - 
But I didn’t dare go back to the same store twice in one day bc they might start thinking I’m an alcoholic. Instead I’d hit up all 3 local ones once a day and if that still wasn’t enough, there’s 2 more just outside town.
Props to being able to pour any away 
Can’t say I ever did that. If it was already in my possession, I drank until it was gone. Even if I was miserable doing it.
Same, then I would go find random crap in the pantry like miniatures that were free with grocery deliveries / cooking wine / my partner’s Frangelico 
. Nothing was safe, I always ordered these wine boxes for a well stocked month/season… Gone in days. Lies.
I actually think these companies that deliver wine should have an opt out option that is very serious. Would have helped me.