what would you do

[cloudedjudgement]

My addiction started at my job I still work there everyday I see the people that have what I want but I turn away I see it every day next to me being offered to me for free I have been able to refuse so far and avoid them. Should I keep my job or try to switch shifts or find a new one? Half the battle is resisting the temptation right? So would staying there and being strong be good or be bad because if I have a bad day I can just get it as if it were a piece of gum..... What have you all done to make the change stick and what advise do you have to make this time permanent

[cloudedjudgement]

Yea I'm not gunna lie 60 hours a week around it seeing it being handed off as asprin is hard as Hell. I am 11 days with no pain killers and starting to feel a Lil better now thanks for the advice and I think I might start looking but I know where ever we go there will always be the 1 person we work with that will tempt us. Thank you all

[cloudedjudgement]

Yea I'm not gunna lie 60 hours a week around it seeing it being handed off as asprin is hard as Hell. I am 11 days with no pain killers and starting to feel a Lil better now thanks for the advice and I think I might start looking but I know where ever we go there will always be the 1 person we work with that will tempt us. Thank you all

[SuperRickHenry]

Look for another job and change your friends... You need away and thats way too much temptation than I could handle... prayin for ya....

[CATUF]

gnarly hit the nail on the head . . . People, Places and Things take us "back out" time after time after time.  

"being strong" is no plan for recovery, it's a plan for eventual relapse. i am human.  therefore i can't be strong 100% of the time.  sooner or later i will have a bad day, or just a bad moment, and it will feel like using is an acceptable (even good) idea . . . and when i use that one time, i'm off to the races again and all bets are off.  i will have reactivated my addiction and the disease will then control my life.

imagine a baseball or basketball game in which the only action is you swinging at pitches or throwing free-throws.  the game has two rules: One -that you have keep swinging, or shooting.  everyday, all day, there you are swinging or shooting, swinging or shooting, day after day after day; Two - when you miss you lose and the game is over and a flip of a coin decides if you get to try again.

such a game would be no fun, would not be fair, and no one would agree to play . . . but that's exactly the game i played when i counted on strength as my recovery plan.

instead of strength, recovery requires surrender.  just google the words
and you'll see what i'm talking about.

CATUF
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[gnarly_1]

you need to chach all persons places and things that remind you of using I gave up a 80k job because I thought I would relapse you got nothing without your sobriety good luck and God bless.......Gnarly