Use distractions if that's what it takes. The standard AA answers are, call someone, read the book, pray, write, go to a meeting. Go for a walk or run.

I was never good at calling people. The hardest times were at night by myself when there was no meeting to go to. I spent a lot of time on my knees, reading and writing.

Work the first step. Write down all the evidence you can think of that shows you have been unable to do it under your own will power. Write down all the ways it has made your life unmanageable.

Paradoxically by admitting we just can't do this on our own (powerless) we gain power. It is a we game.

If you use some not so healthy distraction, so what. We don't get well and wonderful over night. Baby steps. Just don't drink no matter what.

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