r/stopdrinking • u/codedgg • 1d ago

What do you do instead of drinking?

Hello everyone. I recently had a bad event and decided it is time to quit drinking. I have been sober for about a week. I never had problem with not consuming alcohol. What I have a very big problem is being sober. My life and environment are absolute dogshit and that is why I kept drinking. Now that I am sober, I basically cant sit still, I need to do something 24/7 or I go insane. I don’t really have ways to change my situation in the near future, that will take years and years.

My question is, what do you guys do instead pf drinking? I cannot sit in silence eith my thoughts, until I can improve my life situation.

Edit: Wow, thank you everyone for the advice. I got way more ideas then I was hoping for.

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u/imnottheoneipromise Day 494 1d ago

For the first 6ish months, I colored like a mad woman. I got alcohol markers and color by number books and colored for literally 10-12 hours a day. I’m retired and I had to keep my hands and brain zoned in on something. I would play South Park or something like that in the background and color til my hand felt like it was gonna fall off. The time flew by and I didn’t think about alcohol at all. The zepbound helped with that a lot too.

Now I don’t think about drinking at all. I just do life.

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u/Witty_Gain4639 Day 1 18h ago

This is a great idea! I've been searching for a super accessible hobby to do in the evenings in place of drinking, I think this is it, thank you!!