Do you mean, do I think about drinking, or do I think about NOT drinking?
I very rarely think about drinking at all except when I relive the past in the context of an AA meeting.
If you mean, do I ever WANT a drink, then the answer is, very, very occasionally, I think to myself, I wouldn't mind just going to the pub now and letting the world go by.
Then reality kicks in. I am honest enough to know that such a visit would be pure escapism.
I also watch the film to the end. I see the first drink; the second; the third and fourth. I see me leaving the pub, going to the cash point and coming back. I see the fruit machine and the juke box ("Little old Wine Drinker Me" was a favourite.) I see the journey home via the off licence. I see me explaining it to my partner (who has never seen me drink) and trying not to scare my daughter (ditto). I see the night in front of the tv on the sofa drinking more. And, most imporatant of all, I see it all start again the next day.
And so I don't have a drink.
I NEVER crave drink, by which I never feel, physically or mentally, that I "need" a drink. Family have died; relationships have broken up; job applications have failed; my child has been hospitalised; and not once have I NEEDED a drink.
If you mean, "do I think about NOT drinking" then yes. Sometimes in an AA meeting, or even just at home or in the office, I look round and think, "I have all this because of not drinking. How lucky am I?
"And I could throw it all away in a second."
Most people in AA meetings put a pound in the whip round, though it varies from person to person.
When I've got it handy, I prefer to put in £2.50.
The approximate price of the first pint of Stella in a Wetherspoons; the beginning of the end.