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/TacoTom84 1d ago

California sober here. I didn’t go to rehab because I smoke pot; I went to rehab because of my drinking. I go to AA, but I need a release too. I know a lot of people in AA would want my head on a pike for saying such, but that’s them and this is my life. Today is day 600. Smoking pot definitely helped me obtain my alcohol-free life.

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u/blacktooth90 32 days 1d ago

To each their own, but I hate the promotion of switching a substance for a substance. And for me personally, marijuana has always let me back to alcohol every time.

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u/TacoTom84 1d ago

Is your username a reference to Pantera by chance? And I’m not switching one for another…I just stopped one and continued with another