The first thing I recommend if you really want to lose your alcohol craving is “really want it” I mean if you want to know if you really mean it, ask your self the question in every situation were you usually get cravings and see if you still want to not take a drink anymore.

Drinking is a bit messed up because when you suspect that you may have a problem with it,  it is usually to late to do anything about it.  It’s kind of like it needs to take it’s destructive course.  You need to be 100% positive that you are ready to quit, stop or lose your cravings if you want any kind of a fighting chance.

Alcohol is not a toy, if you think you have a problem with it, I suggest you stay clear from it, or it WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!  One of the biggest problems with alcohol is that it is always under estimated and it always wins any fight it’s in.

So my suggestion to anybody that really wants to lose the recurring alcohol craving that might be become a bit of a problem is, read about what you are becoming, grab a book on the consequences of being a alcoholic and the nightmare you will be living soon.  I think this will open your eyes a little and get you ready for where your headed.  At least you will be better prepared and you will have a bit of a head start. Good luck

What is Party time?  What does it really mean or what should it mean?   I use to think that Party time meant “get drunk” and it did, for many years as a matter of fact anything in my life meant, time to get drunk.

I always remember when i started the AA program ,they said that I would like different things when i got sober and it was true, I do.  for example “Party Time” was what my life was all about and today I no longer even care about it or even think about party time.  I am a very lucky person today!

How I got like this?  I had Faith and Desire.  It is possible!

I have been sober for 1650 days and to me “Miller Time” is a joke!  I love to be sober.  I have full control of my life and I do not need “Miller Time” any more after work to calm my nerves or to celebrate.  What I want, I do!  No one or nothing dictate my life at all.  It is truly a wonderful feeling.

I didn’t realize I had a drinking problem till it was to late, and even when I figured it out, I was under it’s spell and could not do anything about it for 13 years.  “Don’t play with fire” should have been “Don’t play with booze, or you will get destroyed!”

If you think you have a drinking problem and say to yourself “this wont happen to me” you are probably already hooked and you will loose allot in your life.  Sorry to say that it is probably to late for you to not be in a hole lot of trouble.  The only way for you to stop drinking is to be “honestly” done with alcohol, till then you’re ways out of this problem are limited and not good at all.

I know the chance of  you understanding the seriousness of the poison you are playing with is only about 1% of you.  Just remember this, a good indicator that will tell you if you’re screwed with alcoholism or not is this, If you think you have a drinking problem and you tell yourself  this “I’LL NEVER GET THAT BAD” you can be sure that you’re screwed!!!  ciao

I have learned that I have to train myself to be very quick when it comes to stinky thinking.  I have to be absolutely sure that alcohol is the worst answer to my problems when I start thinking about quiting on life or just plain thinking that I’m indestructible.

What I am trying to say is that as drinkers we don’t get a second to think about drinking because you will convince yourself in a second that drinking might be a good idea. 

Watch yourself closely when it comes to stinky thinking but don’t worry to much about how you are going to stay sober because if you truly want it, that comes alone and without your help.

I’m still cool after a few years and just think that I was scared stiff of sobriety!…coool!  love it!!!!  What was I thinking?

My wife and I were both born in California and lived there all are lives, till know.  We recently moved out of the country because of a medical infertility situation we ran into.  We both want children but have not had any luck yet.  We already spent a fortune in Los Angeles on treatment and we can no longer afford it,  so Argentina is now our new home, at least until we can have children.

Hard times like the one I’m living through now have always made me run and go drink to ease the pain.  I could never handle anything without drinking, especially anything like this.  Whenever I had a problem I would drink, It didn’t mater if it was good or bad the bottle was always the way I dealt with it.

Dealing with problems without alcohol was impossible for me to do in the past.  I always felt that no matter what I did I would never be able to do anything without drinking.  I truly felt that not only I couldn’t stop drinking but I wouldn’t be able to function without it.  I believed that it was somthing I could never do.

Fortunately the best part of sobriety for me is that I do things today without even thinking of drinking, no matter how bad things get. That is a miracle and it is sobriety working in my life today.

Today my wife and I have been living in Argentina for one year and we are 5 months pregnant, thank God.  If it wasn’t for sobriety I wouldn’t even be alive today to be enjoying this precious moment.  I am truly grateful for this beautiful moment in my life.  We will be living in Buenos Aires Argentina till the baby is born.  My wife still has some blood issues that we are dealing with but we are confident that everything will be all-right.

Every one of life’s events that I live through without taking a drink are small lessons that help me learn and build, my confedence that a healthy sobriety needs to flourish, grow and succeed.

Sobriety doesn’t matter if its slow or fast, its good and that’s all that should matter.  If you want sobriety, do not time yourself or put time lines on yourself, just be honest to yourself from now on and know that a lot of good is going to be coming your way.

I have been sober for almost four years and I usually feel the best when I go to a meeting of AA.  Since I went to my first meeting of AA I have been through a lot of ups and downs, but never had to drink over anything.  Even when I don’t go to meeting regularly I know I have them and that keeps that dark and crazy world I used to live in on check. 

When I hit my bottom I was crazy and in jail thanks to my vodka.  Hospitals, Jails, DUI’s, Accidents, was my world when I used to drink.  Today I am happily married and waiting for my first child.  The craziest thing I do today is have two lattes in one day, my life is not perfect but normal is perfectly OK.

When I used to drink I always thought about quiting and one of the first things that came to mind was, how am I going to go on a vacation sober?  I just could not grasp the concept of traveling without having to get loaded.  I used to think, what am I going to do, a sober vacation?  How pathetic.

I thought the problem of depending on alcohol for everything would never go away and I would have to be doomed to boring vacations forever, but this all changed after I got sober.  The feeling of depency faded and the true feeling of independence came back to me after many years of mental slavery. 

Today I live a normal life and I can go places without drinking and enjoy them even more than I thought I did when I drank.  I heard sober people saying this before and I thought they where lying, but It was possible and I love It.

One of the things I most wanted when I drank was to be able to live life without having to think of drinking every moment of every day.  I Knew this was not goining to happen for me, not the way I was obsessed over alcohol.  Today this is a reality and I don’t remember alcohol for weeks and months sometimes.  It is the best part of sobriety and I can truly enjoy the places I visit today.

One of the most annoying symptoms of drinking and detoxing is the skin itching like crazy.  this is not nearly as painful as other symptoms but it did drive me crazy for days, to the point that it would not let me get any sleep.  I was seating so much that the toxins leaving my body through my skin made me itch all over, It was crazy.  The more water I drank, the more I itched. 

This was happening when I was drinking about a bottle of vodka a day or more and eating very little.  When I drank i just couldn’t eat so my energy was coming from alcohol, I know this sounds crazy but this is alcoholism and there is nothing sane about it. 

When I drank a lot I could not avoid this itching sesation from happening.  It usually took anywhere from 3 to 6 days before the itchy feeling went away.  Sweating the alcohol out of the body is pretty digusting, not only will it drive you nuts but the sweat smells like old booze.

I have to admit that there are many sirious reasons why I quit drinking, but this has got to be one of my most annoying ones.