Does anyone else have strong alcohol cravings / triggers in Airports, Airplanes, Hotels/hotel bars, travel in general? I can be fine at home but then go on a bender starring the minute I enter an airport all the way through returning home.

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Absolutely, I used to HAVE to be drunk to get on a plane, my anxiety was through the roof. Little did I know that it was all the drinking that had elevated my anxiety so much. Today I can fly being responsible for a family of 4 without much stress, even when we showed up 43 minutes before take-off, and they wouldn't accept our bags.

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Airports and hotels are huge triggers for a few reasons for me. First, all norms of reasonable behavior seem to disappear. Having a 7am beer with a tequila chaser seems totally reasonable to the public… an alcoholic’s dream.

My addiction specialist added further context. All of the decisions you’ve repeatedly made in places/scenarios have developed a pattern. Like a river forming a canyon. When you are sober you make new decisions which form new patterns in your brain, but it takes a lot of time and repetition. New patterns that you repeat every day take hold a LOT faster…like not mixing a drink when you get home from work. You likely don’t travel very often, which means your brain still associates airports with shots.

That’s why you can go to some restaurants a lot and not have a craving but when you go to a place you haven’t been to since you stopped drinking, the urge comes on strong.

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Totally. Drinking culture in consulting isn’t helpful for that too.

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Oh yeah. My Thursday routine when coming home on travel was airport drinks before boarding (if time allowed), then at least two red wines on the flight (and of course a fruit 🍓 and cheese 🧀 plate because I’m classy), then Uber home to drop off my bags and immediately head to a local wine bar that also serves food. Obviously I’m expensing all of it, and the night is just beginning after dinner at the wine bar, since 99% of the time I worked from home on Fridays and had little to do.

I did that for years…

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I would have been so screwed if I was still drinking during the pandemic and the switch to WFH…I shudder to think of what I would have been like.

Abso-friggin-lutely.

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