[Magdalen] Recovery query.

[Jon Egger]

Root Beer and seltzer water.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You substitute abstinence, prayer and companions on the same journey -
> hopefully some who already 'know the ropes' (sometimes called a sponsor).
> And you try it a day at a time and sometimes even a minute.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 9, 2016, at 8:41 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Anything to get away from discussion about varying experiences of AA, eh?
> :-)=
>
> Query:  From the purely "oral fixation" aspect of alcoholism, what do some
> of you substitute for alcohol?  And don't say, Well, Mike, just about
> anything.  (Anyone who's been to AA knows the obvious answer is caffeine
> and nicotine.)  But when you've lived with 40% for 13 years, substitutes
> can be a mystery.  My first guess is my favorite substitute for sugary
> sodas:  seltzer water.  The carbonic acid that results from the combining
> of H2O and CO2 has a nice flavor, I think, and is greatly superior to club
> soda, and certainly superior to tonic water with its quinine-ishness.
>