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yardwork

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16. Sounds like a good idea. Keep doing whatever is working for you.

Reply to backwoodsbob (Original post)

Sat Jan 31, 2015, 09:55 AM

Jan 2015

I will have fifteen years sober this April. AA worked for me in the early years. Like you, my drinking was mostly due to a bad habit. I'd tried to quit on my own and failed. Picking up a white chip in AA gave me the reason I needed not to go back and have to pick up another one. I just never drank again, and after awhile I changed my habits.

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met a guy with a cool alcoholism program today [View all] backwoodsbob Jan 2015 OP

My drinking is definately a habit. AngryAmish Jan 2015 #1

with me it is very much habit backwoodsbob Jan 2015 #3

this is called an APG, alternative peer group elehhhhna Jan 2015 #4

That is EXACTLY the phrase he used backwoodsbob Jan 2015 #5

positive peer pressure elehhhhna Jan 2015 #14

Cool 99th_Monkey Jan 2015 #2

Is this empirically validated or studied at all? phil89 Jan 2015 #6

I can;t speak for everyone but for me backwoodsbob Jan 2015 #10

I'm around 7 years off the bottle madokie Jan 2015 #7

Cool! rufus dog Jan 2015 #9

I'm loving being sober madokie Jan 2015 #11

Here is my take rufus dog Jan 2015 #8

Well in a roundabout way you nailed it backwoodsbob Jan 2015 #12

ALL expansive claims of success rates of recovery groups/programs should be taken w/ a grain of salt Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #13

just keep doing what works. we lost another young man in recovery elehhhhna Jan 2015 #15

Sounds like a good idea. Keep doing whatever is working for you. yardwork Jan 2015 #16

Congratulations!!!!! etherealtruth Jan 2015 #18

Getting sober at 18 shows a real commitment. yardwork Jan 2015 #21

Thank you for your encouraging words etherealtruth Jan 2015 #22

Wishes for continued success ... you are winning a ominous challenge etherealtruth Jan 2015 #17

Glad to hear there are popular alternatives to AA GreatGazoo Jan 2015 #19

Whatever works libodem Jan 2015 #20

I went to an AA meeting once with my sister. nilesobek Jan 2015 #23

Whatever works. NaturalHigh Feb 2015 #24