Someone three weeks sober describes how cravings shift over recovery: frequent and long at first, then rarer and shorter. When they hit, they fight back by remembering what they've built and what they'd lose if they used again.
Do I get— the last craving I had was probably about 3 weeks ago. And the more you overcome the craving, so at the beginning you're like, and you, you know, that's when you can give in and that's when you're gonna slip up. But now they are fewer and far between. And when they do raise their ugly head, they're short-lived. They're not as long. Mm-hmm. So at the beginning they're more frequent. And when they do come, they've, you think about it for a lot longer. It comes into my head now. But what I do, um, to overcome that, I just think back on how I felt. I think about what I've achieved. Do I want to fuck all that up? Do I want to lose everything I've done, lose my reputation now? You know, because I don't want to become— I don't want to become— I knew that if I get back on it again, I'll become unreliable. I'm not going to— people aren't going to want to work with me. I don't want to get down that road again, and I don't want to have that feeling
