Hi, i realize that I’m late to this, your place of decision making.I say, keep going. I restarted so many times it’s not measurable.
But, today i have 24 years sobriety. I tell people, always tell ON myself. If I kept sober from the first time I became aware that sobriety is obtainable, I would have 36 years sober.If you are not able to stay sober it’s OK. But you know that it’s there.It will happen when it needs to. Forcing sobriety is never going to get you anywhere but resentment towards yourself.I learned that the hard way. As I said, now I have 24 years sobriety. It happened without me even noticing. I’m grateful for my pre-quit phase s. I’m grateful because I went thru it.
It’s OK. Keep going.
I hope this helps you very much.
I agree with you. Also I discovered the longer you go sober the easier it gets. Time really helps rewire the brain from all the messed up “reward” circuitry that’s been lied to for so long.
Welcome to the community Fyre and congratulations on starting your sobriety journey. Glad you are here with us. Lots of great support here. Look forward to seeing you around
Will have 600 days tomorrow but lately I feel like I’m stuck in the future and worried about some things that are out of my control.. I’m doing my best to live in today but I feel distracted and in the back of my head I’m thinking about other stuff that hasn’t happened yet or might or might not happen. so I’m going to work on getting back to staying in today with more action, go back to some basics, continue to reach out to my net work and try to do the best I can for today and be grateful for where I’m at in life. 600 days ago I would’ve done anything to have an apartment and have a day off like today with whatever I want to do available to me .. I can work on music. I can go to the skate park or ride my bike and really there is nothing to fear.. but yet today I’m full of fear about the future as far as my Probation and where I’m going to live when that’s done but That’s nothing that has to do with today. My plan is to have no plan and to let go. My plan is to trust the universe and know that I am safe
Ps: I also told the sober house to let me know if they need help with anything this weekend so it might help to get out of my head to help somebody else and I hope they give me some chores or something random to do that needs to be done. And if they don’t need anything by this afternoon I might go around with the grabber stick and pick up trash in the neighborhood around me
Thank you for taking the time to create this post Dan.
What you have written here is a very helpful guide that we can reference at any time we need to, which is a very sobering thought (pardon the pun with good intent).
Hubby (Mat) and I (Annie) both felt that this was a great first post to come across as newcomers here.
It’s a welcoming and informative guide that instantly made us feel like we have arrived at the right place on our journeys (Hubby - AUD and Me - Cigarettes [Side Note: I understand that Nicotine addiction is probably not what this site is intended for, but I have personally found Sober Time extremely helpful on my own journey and also for my role as a partner/support person to my Hubby on his journey so far]).
Thank you for the shared links Sarath. You gave given me motivation to check out after I do the school bus run this morning. I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my comment
Thank you for your reply and shared links Jason I see from other threads I have come across on here that you’re an avid, and film famous fisherman.
We love leisure fishing whenever we’re near water where fishing is safe (no saltwater crocs floating around)
I’m not in any way discrediting any other addiction with what I’m about to say, as I understand that all addictions are hard to quit and all addictions come with their own set of unpleasant symptoms.
I have personally found that quitting ciggs has been isolating and difficult and made more difficult as I have Crohns Disease which quitting has caused painful flareups of and also very little support available where we live. There is a lot more readily available support for other SUD’s, which is great, I just wish there was more available for Nicotine addiction.
We live in a remote area (I’m a RAN) with our children, so when we travelled a long way for Hubby to be admitted to a metro IPWU for his medicated detox, I started and completed my - for lack of a better term- Nicotine detox in a hotel room on my own with only a generic quit line phone number to call. I found it all very daunting and felt isolated. I wish I had found this community earlier
Keep up the amazing work and support 
