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Craving thread – v. Hold On

My name is Nikki and I am an addict! After a 8.5 yr run on opiates, ending with a needle up to 10 times a day, I have been completely clean and sober for 100days today. I truly recommend a program. 12 step program. I was absolutely against them until I went to rehab 100days ago. I spent 45 days in treatment and have now been home 55. I still continue to go to at least 1 NA/AA meeting a day and most days I attend 2. This has been the hardest but most rewarding journey of my life. It's far from easy but I find it easier than I thought it would because I've met some amazing Addicts since joining the 'rooms' as we call it. While I know it's not for everyone, I would encourage anyone trying to finally live their life, give it a shot. You'll never know if it will work for you unless you give it a shot. One of our mottos are, Keep coming back, it works. I truly believe that.

Just for today, it's all we got!!
 
It really is. To be able to see happiness outside of something you dedicated your life to is amazing. Many people don't believe they can be happy without drugs because they give you such an unworldly happiness. It sort of proves what we are looking for is certainly out there but we very often can't see it.

Keep it turning to the right.
 
Thank you for that! I think I might have needed to see that today! Not all days are great by any means, but seems when I'm having one of those worse days I see or hear something that fits perfectly!! Today it was that!!^
 
I understand better than anyone the power of words :) and how easy it is to feel like what you're doing amounts to nothing. Well it doesn't, you're having a very profound effect on yourself and the world around you. Sobriety is self empowering. It represents the power we have to take control of our lives. I can't imagine you ever saw yourself having control of your life when you were on the needle.
 
Intense Cravings

Hello Bluelighters. I'm relatively inexperienced in terms of drug use, being the only drugs I've used were Cannabis and generic Opiates (oxys, hydrocodones, percs, etc...). Lately I've been experiencing intese cravings but I reallly REALLY don't want to take anything right now. What should I do? I mean, obviously I should wait until I feel no craving but I don't know. Every couple days for two weeks before bed I've just been popping regular percosets. How should I go about this? Advice? Just trying to stay safe.
 
Give a lot of effort to change your thought patterns. When you catch yourself in the middle of a craving, be consciously aware of it and tell yourself out loud that you don't need it.
I talk to myself out loud though, you don't have to do that part. But just make sure to let yourself know that it's just a feeling that will pass eventually.
 
Try to keep yourself busy is honestly the only thing I've really found to work. It gets easier the longer you go sober tho.
 
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Do something that's rewarding but not drugs, like....

video games, reading, writing, painting, going to a museum, walking/running, other forms of exercise/sports, various hobbies, socializing with non-drug users, etc.

This will help the most. <3
 
Yes, occupying your mind by staying busy is working for me as well. I try to find things to clean or organize when I'm home. Taking a scenic drive lifts my mood. Right now I have a little mutt who is barking at me demanding to play. (He wears me out) Anything to keep my mind off using!
 
I merged this thread into the mega-thread about craving as there's some excellent advice in this large thread. Good luck.
 
Uhg it's the age old battle. Sadly There is no way around it. Sit on your hands till it's over it all. Smoke some buds to help satisfy the cravings but in the end ya just gotta wait it out
 
I sometimes wonder is the occasional but almost overwhelming craving going to last for my whole life. It's been 5 years since I quit, also opioid replacement therapy. Was William Burroughs right in one becoming a "heroin life form"? There is a lot of good advise on this thread, but I would, instead of focusing on something else when the craving comes, want live a life where the craving never comes.
 
I know how you feel on that on mate.
I literally start crying when my cravings come and for me personally, I cave in, I am trying so hard to fight this addiction.
I want to stay sober so bad. I see people around me happy and cheerful and they don't use drugs. I want to be like them.
For me I always wondered. How are you people so happy? Why am I never happy unless I am using drugs?
I feel like I forever ruined my brain. My anxiety is so bad I can not walk down a street without getting paranoid about people staring at me.
I have tattoos everywhere, when I was using I didn't care and thought it was a good idea (rebelling to the man, bla bla bla) now I'm stuck with
ink on my neck,hands,knuckles,chest, arms, and even my face. Each time I was high on some drug. I resent myself. I don't love myself and I know I need to
for me to fight off cravings.

I want what you want Morkret, I want to NOT have them at all but I know that's not going to happen, at least not for a LONG time.
 
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I literally start crying when my cravings come and for me personally, I cave in, I am trying so hard to fight this addiction.
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I've cried and yelled too. And threatened people who love me to commit suicide if I don't get drugs.
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I feel like I forever ruined my brain. My anxiety is so bad I can not walk down a street without getting paranoid about people staring at me. (...) I resent myself. I don't love myself and I know I need to for me to fight off cravings.
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I also often get paranoid when people stare at me and feel that they think I'm a junkie and a criminal. Well, they might, and sometimes someone has even said things like that to me. That should not matter to me. I know what I am. Even at home with my children I sometimes think would my actions look sane enough and sober enough, if someone would be watching. Still, I have learned to be somewhat "proud" of all my scars and see myself as wounded but not killed in the battle of life.
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I want what you want Morkret, I want to NOT have them at all but I know that's not going to happen, at least not for a LONG time.
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It would be easier, if one would have at least some idea about the lenght of that time. It's mentally easier to think of "doing time" for 10 years than for an unlimited amount of time, perhaps for life.
 
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