What do you do when cravings get too much?

What do you do to distract yourself when you're having overwhelming urges to drink?

I don't drink every day, but when I do I can't stop. This is nothing new, and I don't even bother to lie to myself any more by telling myself I'll just have the one, because I know that's not possible in my case. I feel like it's getting more and more out of control lately though. The last few times I've been a real b*tch to people, and I don't even remember what I said the next day. It's like I'm someone else. I hate it, but I can't seem to stay away for longer than a week (sometimes a bit longer).

So I was wondering what other people do to get past this. If it's a mild craving it's fine - I know I have a problem with drinking, and I can resist it. But the longer I resist it, the more it seems to grow in my mind, until eventually it's too much and I give in. I'm out of ideas when it gets to that point. Well, I guess I'm probably not alone there.

Thanks for reading.

I used to go into phases of not drinking but then I would get uncontrollable urges to drink again so I would just fall back into a drinking pattern every time I got an urge. And once I started drinking, I couldn't stop until I got drunk so I would binge frequently.

Now that I haven't drank in a while, the longer I go without it the fewer urges I get. They don't seem to be an issue anymore, I still want to drink at times but the cravings are never unbearable.