GuyLaCroix wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2025 3:38 pm

Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2025 2:39 pm

GuyLaCroix wrote:

Same. I get a nic fit very rarely, but then I get around smokers and it's a bit revolting.

I feel less smelly and disgusting already. It's been like 3 days.

You got this

Do it.

I too wish I could be a now and then guy. I have five or seven a day.

I'm considering quitting lately, even though I love it. I bought some pouches, gonna get some gum. Maybe this week...

Progress update:
I had two cigs remaining in the "the last box" which went untouched all week until Thursday evening when I smoked them to salve the frustration of jam night being canceled. I had kinda planned to finish them at practice and I just wanted them gone. Gotta say, they weren't that great, or really much fun at all. I think something has clicked.

edited to include: thank you all for the encouragement. I'm posting here to keep me honest and maybe inspire someone else.
I passed 50 recently and it's just time for me to be done with this.

Stay the course guys. Honestly, if you crack this in a few years you’ll wonder how you could have stuck with it for so long.

Even in a few weeks your taste will improve, blood pressure will drop, general cardiovascular fitness will jump. Smoking really messes with so many of your body’s functions it’s actually a pretty big deal when you stop.

mrcancelled wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:38 am Just curious, do any of you sober folks have frequent dreams about drinking? I'd have figured after nearly a decade this shit would go away... I'm still having multiple dreams a week where I'm just pounding booze all night, even though alcohol never really enters my mind these days on a conscious level. Maybe we could meet up in dream world some time and throw down.

What's your stress like these days?

To answer your question, my drunk dreams are very infrequent, and I haven't been able to associate them with any specific trigger. I definitely have no desire to drink at this point (15 years sober) but that doesn't mean there isn't some fractured identity trapped within me that doesn't have reservations. However I think it's just the brain version of muscle memory, what's that called? Oh yeah, just memory.

6 years since I quit drinking. Officially I count by Thanksgivings but either way I do not miss alcohol one bit. Fucking poison.

I quit smoking a long time ago, but got addicted to that fucking gum. That can be a real pain to kick.

I rarely drink these days, but that's also a pain in the ass. Best of luck to everyone.

mrcancelled wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:38 am Just curious, do any of you sober folks have frequent dreams about drinking?

Not about drinking but other shit. Completely normal. I think they suck but I guess it's a coping mechanism or some shit. Makes me not want to use I can tell you that no matter how delicious that dream can be.

Always available to talk!

rsmurphy wrote: Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:00 am

mrcancelled wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:38 am Just curious, do any of you sober folks have frequent dreams about drinking?

Not about drinking but other shit. Completely normal. I think they suck but I guess it's a coping mechanism or some shit. Makes me not want to use I can tell you that no matter how delicious that dream can be.

Always available to talk!

I really appreciate that! And yeah, same thing here--thankfully the dreams never actually cause cravings for me, at least not since my earlier days of sobriety. Glad it's the same for you in that they're not uncontrollable triggers.

ChudFusk wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 2:42 pm What's your stress like these days?

To answer your question, my drunk dreams are very infrequent, and I haven't been able to associate them with any specific trigger. I definitely have no desire to drink at this point (15 years sober) but that doesn't mean there isn't some fractured identity trapped within me that doesn't have reservations. However I think it's just the brain version of muscle memory, what's that called? Oh yeah, just memory.

That makes sense--even if we may have no desire to relapse or anything, the idea can always be lurking in one's subconscience. Stress lately hasn't been too bad, though it's the same for me in that nothing I'm aware of actually triggers them... I've just had them frequently since I quit. Ultimately they're harmless, it's just kind of funny to me that they haven't subsided at this point--I never really think much about alcohol when I'm awake.

mrcancelled wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:38 am Just curious, do any of you sober folks have frequent dreams about drinking? I'd have figured after nearly a decade this shit would go away... I'm still having multiple dreams a week where I'm just pounding booze all night, even though alcohol never really enters my mind these days on a conscious level. Maybe we could meet up in dream world some time and throw down.

I have drinking dreams regularly(few nights a week). I also have bike messaging dreams, and dreams about a restaurant I worked in 25 years ago. I don't take them to seriously, like the messaging and old restaurant dreams, they're pretty mundane. Like just sitting in a bar, having a drink. The most recent BAD dream I was hellishly hungover.

Unless you wake up wanting to drink, try and shake em off. To me it's just my subconcious playing reels.

PASTA wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 5:17 pm

mrcancelled wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:38 am Just curious, do any of you sober folks have frequent dreams about drinking? I'd have figured after nearly a decade this shit would go away... I'm still having multiple dreams a week where I'm just pounding booze all night, even though alcohol never really enters my mind these days on a conscious level. Maybe we could meet up in dream world some time and throw down.

I have drinking dreams regularly(few nights a week). I also have bike messaging dreams, and dreams about a restaurant I worked in 25 years ago. I don't take them to seriously, like the messaging and old restaurant dreams, they're pretty mundane. Like just sitting in a bar, having a drink. The most recent BAD dream I was hellishly hungover.

Unless you wake up wanting to drink, try and shake em off. To me it's just my subconcious playing reels.

Yeah, that's good advise... best to just forget them, totally outside of our control. God, a hangover dream sounds horrible, thankful I haven't gotten one of those yet.

andyman wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 4:26 pm I never really get drunk dreams, but I also think the sobriety journey is unique for each person. My thoughts to those struggling. One was never enough for me so I just can't have any at all.

Same thing here. It was always easy for me to say no to one drink, but if I had the one, it would always end up being what I did the rest of the day/night/weekend.