highoncoke
Greenlighter
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- May 24, 2009
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Get a decent job or go to university/college, if you find something you like (most people will) then stick with it and put as much effort as you can into it, its a great distraction and when you learn something you can get great satisfaction out of it, a great mood elevator and gives you a natural buzz.
Having a regular job also forces good habbits into you, eg not staying up to silly hours for no reason and you can't rock up to work with a bad hangover/comedown.
Whilst I realise this is a simple 'solution' for getting clean and will not work for a lot of people (you might already have all of these) remember you are still a step ahead of someone who is in the same position without a life goal. Having a motivation to get up in the morning and try and get clean WILL help you, any help is worth while, no matter how minimal it is.
I know u have ur best interest at heart when u say this but honestly it takes a LOT more than that to stay clean and sober. I quit doing everything in 2002, and for 4 years I managed to stay clean, and yes I had a good job, and had a lot of motivation. Also was going to AA and NA meetings. Still not enough, the same month I celebrated 4 yrs sober, I smoked some weed to "help me sleep" because that wasnt my drug of choice, and never had a problem with it. Within a week I was drinking exesively again, and it was a matter of a couple of more weeks till I started doing coke again. Again, I was able to stop after a year and a half. Guess what? Now I have a daughter, Im going to school, and started doing cocaine again. So what Im saying is that it takes a liottle more and this is not only a matter of will power, and staying occupied, its an illness and THATS the reason why anyone shouldnt start doing it. If u are already in it and want to stop, all I can say is go to meetings, and pray for me, that Ill do the same for u...
one thing that irked me a little coming to this site in the beginning is that all the horror stories and addiction and stuff is on TDS whereas all the info on getting high is on other drugs. It's pretty easy for an average person new to the site to just look at what they want to see, and maybe not even know there is a forum called TDS. If i had heard bad things about how drugs fucked people over while i was reading about them, it might have changed my mind. i think this thread could be good as either a warning, or as a summary of tips of how people have quit.
This I think can help a lot, the horror stories of those who are already here and cant stop....