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Posted: 5/11/2019 3:50:04 PM EDT

[#1]

About 14 hours. Gotta love wedding season.

Posted: 5/11/2019 3:50:18 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/11/2019 3:51:22 PM EDT

[#3]

Craig Ferguson 2007 Sobriety monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46P7loICXY

Almost a year for me.

“You can say, ‘drink responsibly’, and I’ll say, ‘I’ll try’.... but I can’t.”

Posted: 5/11/2019 3:57:07 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/11/2019 4:05:29 PM EDT

[#5]

December 31, 1989
29 years and change.

My ex wife of all people had to remind me.
I lost track of years after about 20 years.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:06:24 PM EDT

[#6]

Ironically.....

Decided this morning would be a good time to relax and reminisce about my dads passing.
11/19/1930 to 4/20/2019 (sure that dad didn’t realize the what 420 meant )

18 hour road trip to Texas & back each way. (May 6-8)

Brought back some items of his. My sons did the same.

Great Man

So yes, been drinking.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:06:52 PM EDT

[#7]

What if I currently have alcohol in my system?

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:08:33 PM EDT

[#8]

87 days.

But they werent all in a row.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:12:14 PM EDT

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Recovering from recovery?

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Screwed up the poll. "Less than a month" should have been the first option.

If a mod could fix I would appreciate it.

Recovering from recovery?

In recovery for recovery recovery . . .

Been here since '09, this is my first poll. Could have been worse.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:13:57 PM EDT

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Getting close to 40 years....June16, 1979

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Posted: 5/11/2019 4:16:25 PM EDT

[#11]

Somewhere in the 6-8 year range i think. Haven't bothered to keep track accurately.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:17:41 PM EDT

[#12]

April 24, 2019

I'm working on it one day at a time

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:18:33 PM EDT

[#13]

10-12-2017

I don't really think about it anymore so I had to look it up.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:18:45 PM EDT

[#14]

25 years

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:20:32 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/11/2019 4:25:07 PM EDT

[#16]

Please...don't bow down to me. I didn't do this alone, it was a gift.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:37:34 PM EDT

[#17]

Depends on your definition of "sober". If you mean zero alcohol intake, 20 hours. If you mean having a BAL below .08, it's been years since I've been over that.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:37:54 PM EDT

[#18]

54 next month, so 30 years without a drink and never did any type of drug.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:42:21 PM EDT

[#19]

15DEC07. That night almost cost me an eye, and my job.

Whenever I feel like falling back into it(pretty often), i just run my tongue along my dentalwork, and the urge fades.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:44:36 PM EDT

[#20]

Less than 24 hrs.

Posted: 5/11/2019 4:45:17 PM EDT

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Maybe 11 or 12 for me. And I’ll be sober for another 6 or so. Buddies birthday last night. Fundraising dinner tonight.

Edit- I drink maybe 6 or 7 times a year.

Posted: 5/11/2019 5:55:34 PM EDT

[#22]

32 years

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:06:53 PM EDT

[#23]

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Been a few sobriety threads lately. Full of the usual mishmash of genuinely good advice and total cluelessness.

My question is simple: How long have you been sober (currently, many of us have had our false starts and sometimes you gotta fail hard to see how badly you need to succeed)?

For the purpose of this poll we will limit it to alcohol and substance abuse recovery (your tentacle porn addiction deserves its own thread). Questions and advice are welcome, but not the focus of this thread. Which is how many and how long.

If you want to criticize, redefine, pigeonhole, shill, or just stir shit, take it to another thread. We don't need to hear how we're weak and have no self control. We know more about it than you ever will. We know our demons on a first name basis, some are newly acquainted and others have been hanging out for decades.

Poll is up!

PS: I'll be 61 in July and I've been clean & sober for the last 26 of those years.

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It's sad to read what some post on here about their drinking issues, I'm talking about serious drinking, get the help you need, it's out there.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:25:14 PM EDT

[#24]

Coming up on 10 years of being completely sober. I took things pretty far with alcohol and drugs. It's a miracle I am where I am today.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:30:11 PM EDT

[#25]

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Yeah about that, give or take

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:37:15 PM EDT

[#26]

41 years give or take since I escaped the womb. Never understood why people crawl into a bottle to run away from life.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:38:46 PM EDT

[#27]

I'm 62, sober 16 years. Thank God and AA!

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:41:17 PM EDT

[#28]

Since last Sunday.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:43:50 PM EDT

[#29]

Let's see... the last (and only) time I got drunk was New Years Eve 1979. Hated it so much I never did it again.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:46:08 PM EDT

[#30]

Depends on what you call sober.
I stopped letting booze rule my life in the late 70s to early 80s.

I still drink but not very often.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:46:30 PM EDT

[#31]

2 hours

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:47:02 PM EDT

[#32]

I wish you all health and happiness and sobriety.

My cousin Rob, who was a long time AA sponsor to a lot of people, passed away last month. At his memorial, a whole bunch of folks stood up to tell how he'd literally saved their life.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:48:10 PM EDT

[#33]

Since about 8pm yesterday.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:48:38 PM EDT

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Somewhere in the 6-8 year range i think. Haven't bothered to keep track accurately.

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This for me. I used to know, but. I do know that it was on a April 1st. This past 4/1 was also a year with out a cigarette for me as well. Figured that was a good day to stop that habit as well. April 1 is the day that I said no more alcohol.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:49:17 PM EDT

[#35]

15,689 days. It all began in Brunswick, OH near Akron, OH. Attended many Founder Days when I lived in Ohio.

It all began on May 28, 1976; One Day at a Time.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:56:22 PM EDT

[#36]

Last Drink March 19, 1990.
Some days my head seems less sober than most - "One Day At A Time" for me...

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:58:04 PM EDT

[#37]

Negative 1 hours.

Posted: 5/11/2019 6:58:46 PM EDT

[#38]

Roughly six months.

Living “ clear headed” is hands down the best decision I’ve ever made. Wish I would have done it 20 or more years ago.

Posted: 5/11/2019 7:02:09 PM EDT

[#39]

Year and a half.

Posted: 5/11/2019 7:04:00 PM EDT

[#40]

About 8 hours, but god willing, I'll be drunk in an hour.

Posted: 5/11/2019 7:28:14 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Been a few sobriety threads lately. Full of the usual mishmash of genuinely good advice and total cluelessness.

My question is simple: How long have you been sober (currently, many of us have had our false starts and sometimes you gotta fail hard to see how badly you need to succeed)?

For the purpose of this poll we will limit it to alcohol and substance abuse recovery (your tentacle porn addiction deserves its own thread). Questions and advice are welcome, but not the focus of this thread. Which is how many and how long.

If you want to criticize, redefine, pigeonhole, shill, or just stir shit, take it to another thread. We don't need to hear how we're weak and have no self control. We know more about it than you ever will. We know our demons on a first name basis, some are newly acquainted and others have been hanging out for decades.

Poll is up!

PS: I'll be 61 in July and I've been clean & sober for the last 26 of those years.

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61 on Patriots Day, was sober for 2 hours today.

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:06:55 PM EDT

[#42]

May 24, 1981, sometime in the evening.
In two weeks it will be 38 years continuous, God Willing.

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:08:55 PM EDT

[#43]

I didn’t take the pledge or anything, but got bored with and kinda tapered off, but I’d pretty much quit by the mid-nineties. I got good and tipsy at a wedding reception in the early Oughts. That was the last time i had more than one drink in a twenty-four hour period; it’s probably been seven or eight years since I’ve had more than a glass or two of spiked eggnog in a calendar year.

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:09:40 PM EDT

[#44]

I have never been intoxicated,the idea of it has never appealed to me.

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:15:09 PM EDT

[#45]

Congratulations to those who have reclaimed their lives from addiction.

I hope those who haven't will, someday, find the desire to reclaim their lives too.

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:22:36 PM EDT

[#46]

9 hours at a time, over and over

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:28:31 PM EDT

[#47]

Poll fail. I've never been inebriated in my entire life and have no interest or intention of starting. Never really liked the taste of alcohol much and the sight of drunks back in high school turned me off of ever wanting to be inebriated. One would have to be a total dumb@$$ to intentionally incapacitate themselves, especially in public where thieves and muggers can find an easy target. Plus I really hate those iceholes that get drunk in public and become belligerent, loud, and obnoxious. Not to mention the scumbags that cause DWI accidents that murder innocent motorists and pedestrians.

Posted: 5/11/2019 8:43:31 PM EDT

[#48]

How long have I been sober?

I guess since about midnight last night. Gonna have a beer in a bit and relax for the night.

I did the no drink January or whatever it was. I guess thats good right.

Posted: 5/11/2019 9:54:49 PM EDT

[#49]

About 2 hours

Posted: 5/11/2019 10:06:31 PM EDT

[#50]

My grandfather died from cirrocis of the liver when my dad was 8. I followed my dad’s lead - never challenge heredity.

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