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help needed to quit cocaine

ben2990

ben2990

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I wanna quit, its to easy for me to buy it and sell it for the money back and use some.

Its making me depressed and shit. I know i should quit but i dont anyways. 2 times now i said, this is my last time. but since then iv tried it again.

I dont have an addictive personality so it should be fine. I had no problem stoping smoking ciggarettes. I need something to pass some of my free time.


Can your nose get extreamly damaged by using coke for 3 days in a row? I use propor harm reduction. (put waster in my nose after, use saline, and even rub some vitamin e in there sometimes)

Any more suggestions? /\/\


Can someone with any type of experience quiting cocaine give me some advice in general?

Anything i can get my hands on over the counter to make me more mellowed out!? (URGENT)


Any responser is appreciated.
 
Hello ben, I'm sorry to hear that your struggling. The intense mental aspect of a coke addiction makes it very difficult to stop. Personally, I am more of a heroin user. I've been addicted to dope for the past 7 years but have used a lot of coke during that time too. I don't snort it, I shoot it. Most of the time in speedball fashion (mixed in the heroin shot) so I certainly know what it's like to freak out when you don't have white. You asked about the damage to your nose, like I said, I have been injecting it for years but like most people I did start out snorting it. I can tell you, that although everyone is different, it takes a lot of long term daily abuse to really do any permanent damage to your nose. I'm talking years of heavy usage. Anything less than that, yes your nose will be raw as hell and perhaps the lining will begin to deteriorate, but it isn't significant damage (although it may feel that way hah, I remember how annoying that burn was, I hate snorting drugs...of course now I have to deal with collapsed veins and abscesses but..whatever..hah). Give it a few days off the the straw and you'll notice a huge improvement on how your nose feels. As far as over the counter stuff to mellow you out...there really isn't anything strong enough to really do the trick. Maybe some Tylenol PM or some benydral to help you sleep. Larger doses of motrin, 4-5 pills can help a lot with muscle aches. At those doses, it's actually stronger than codeine. but I'd suggest maybe getting a hold of a small amount of valium or some other benzo if it's possible. I mean, provided you don't turn that into an addiction, it can really help with that "crawl out of your skin" feeling when quitting coke.

Look, quitting is not easy my friend and it's not going to happen unless you really are done with it. You may not be done with your run, and thats completely fine. Maybe you're getting clean for someone else, or a combination of other things, but at the end of the day Ben, for it to really stick, you need to get clean for your self. It sounds cheesy I know, but thats how it happens. You need to look in the mirror and be honest with your self. Ask if you really are done and if you sincerely do not like the person staring back at you in that mirror, then change it. Check into a program maybe. A simple one month will go a long way. Find some hobbies, immerse your self in other things. For the recovering addict, boredom is our worst nightmare. Just stay busy and surround your self with positive and sober people.

Good luck ben, I hope it works out for you.

-Scagnattie
 
Scagnattie, very well said! I agree, i think that you have to really want to stop to do it successfully. I'm the same with my habit with OTC stuff, I want to stop because of the damage i'm doing to my body, but I don't want to 100% because I don't feel strong enough to withstand the withdrawals and it scares me to think about what i'll be putting myself through to stop.

I wish you luck for the future and agree completely that you have to be busy and involved in something to keep your mind off it.
 
barnstable84 said:
Scagnattie, very well said! I agree, i think that you have to really want to stop to do it successfully. I'm the same with my habit with OTC stuff, I want to stop because of the damage i'm doing to my body, but I don't want to 100% because I don't feel strong enough to withstand the withdrawals and it scares me to think about what i'll be putting myself through to stop.

I wish you luck for the future and agree completely that you have to be busy and involved in something to keep your mind off it.
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Can you explain what OTC med gives you withdrawals?
 
barnstable84 said:
I'm the same with my habit with OTC stuff, I want to stop because of the damage i'm doing to my body, but I don't want to 100% because I don't feel strong enough to withstand the withdrawals and it scares me to think about what i'll be putting myself through to stop.

I wish you luck for the future and agree completely that you have to be busy and involved in something to keep your mind off it.
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Yes, the fear of the pain during withdrawal is a seriously deterring factor when it comes to addicts getting clean or not. Checking into detox is really the best way to go and if you find a good one, they will try and make it as painless as possible. One can always acquisition some methadone, or suboxone or something and attempt a kick on their own but if your like me, once your habit has reached a certain point it's just too hard to kick like that. The best way is to get through the worst of it, the first 3-7 days is in a detox and then maybe switch over to self medicating with suboxone or methadone when your out to get over that last hump. No body ever said getting clean would be easy, but then again, most good things never are. Just keep your eye on your goals of getting sober. Remind your self that your going through this week or so of pain, so you can live a happy and productive life. Withdrawal sucks my friends, but, this is the life we chose and we knew it wouldn't be painless.

I wish you lots of luck as well barnstable.
 
tamoz said:
Can you explain what OTC med gives you withdrawals?
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I think perhaps he meant that he is the same way in that he uses some of them, like the ones i mentioned, to help ease through some of his real withdrawal symptoms, not that he was actually addicted to OTC drugs. I could be wrong however, but thats what I gathered from his post tamoz.
 
mr.scagnattie said:
I think perhaps he meant that he is the same way in that he uses some of them, like the ones i mentioned, to help ease through some of his real withdrawal symptoms, not that he was actually addicted to OTC drugs. I could be wrong however, but thats what I gathered from his post tamoz.
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Sorry, I did mean that i'm addicted to OTC medications, promethazine and codeine. I know promethazine is prescription only in the States (not sure of the uk though) and coming off codeine is a total bitch but my goal is to be off them by July by gradually tapering down and having some stilnox (ambien) handy for the restless nights.

I'm a girl too by the way ;)
 
barnstable84 said:
Sorry, I did mean that i'm addicted to OTC medications, promethazine and codeine. I know promethazine is prescription only in the States (not sure of the uk though) and coming off codeine is a total bitch but my goal is to be off them by July by gradually tapering down and having some stilnox (ambien) handy for the restless nights.

I'm a girl too by the way ;)
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Oh I see. Cali sucks, well the states suck you cant even get codeine OTC. I also get codeine/prometh during flu season...tastes so good lol... its good to know there are girls like me on this site lol

I also wish you the very best with the withdrawals, im right there with ya.:(
 
Ben- I was in a very similar situation about five years ago with cocaine. It was all around me, plus, I had a friend who wanted me to help him move the stuff, which was of a very high quality. For a while, I was able to sell some off and get quite a bit for free to use myself, until my use got to be too great, and I was using more than I was selling. I would do it everyday, from morning 'til night; basically until my nose was in so much pain that I couldn't handle anymore. At that point, I'd cut my losses, go to bed, looking forward to waking up the next day and doing more coke. It's a horrible cycle, and though the physical addiction is mild to non-existent, the mental aspect is exceptionally powerful.

For me, it took moving away from the powder-laidened area I was living in to get clean, as well as ending up completely broke and helpless. Hopefully you are able to break the habit before it gets any worse, as it sounds like you have not gotten that far down the road. Best of luck to you.

Also- The depression caused by cocaine is awful, and gets exponentially worse the more you use. You will feel a hundred times better once you stop, I promise.
 
I quit doing yay about a year ago. It was such a tough thing to do because it was always around a lot of social events I attended with friends. Just thinking about it still makes my body tingle. It was very tough for me to overcome. The weird part about it is that it started hitting me a little differently about a year ago. I would do a couple of rails and feel really sketched out and couldn't even talk. This happened the next few times that I did it, and this is what led me to quit. I am 30 and have done yay since I was about 21 years old. I dunno what happened, but doing yay starting becoming a horrible feeling for some odd reason. I know that you are looking for ways that people quit, and that is the way that I eventually did. If it weren't for that experience, I may have never quit. Be strong brother, I know the pressures of having it around you is really tempting. I didn't experience any kind of withdrawl from it luckily. my life actually vastly improved after I stopped. I stopped being so irratable, having headaches all the time, feeling like shit the next 24 hours after a good binge, and actually started a good relationship. I am currently battling an oxy addiction that I have had for the past year or so. Now stopping that is a whole different story due to the physical withdrawl! Your life will be much better without yay, trust me!
 
For me personally? I don't think I my cocaine use would have advanced as much as it did had my best friend not been addicted to it. I sort of went along for the ride and found myself doing just as much as she did as we were always together; attached at the hip. The best thing I ever did was stop hanging out with her, and then I found it was much easier to get off the cocaine. It was hard for me to see it around without doing it for quite some time but now when I see it (which is basically never; I don't hang out with people who do it anymore) the last thing I wanna do is put it up my nose. The last few years I used drugs I couldn't stand uppers at all, so the idea of using cocaine doesn't turn me on in the slightest bit.

So yeah, the combination of quitting my friend and eventually hating uppers did the trick for me. Oh and moving out of Georgia. That was definitely a HUGE help. It's almost impossible to maintain the same group of friends if you're trying to clean yourself up but they're still using drugs. Come to think of it, the best thing I've done for myself is avoid hanging out with drug users at all now that I'm in a new place (well, "new" as in I've been here for a year and a half). I don't have a problem with folks who use, it's just that I know I'm an addict and should I be surrounded by drugs again I will more than likely start using. I have been clean for a long time now so the last thing I wanna do is fuck that up.

As far as your nose goes, you should be fine. It takes A LOT of continual use before your nose will get really fucked up. I always had more problems with my throat getting really raw than anything. My nose didn't start bothering me until I had been using cocaine a lot for a year plus. I still have a fucked up septum to this day because of it. It will actually scab up off and on and it's quite painful. I also never, ever had nose bleeds oddly enough (considering the amount of coke I was doing). It seemed like everyone else would get them from time to time though.

Good luck with everything!
 
what helped me quit iv coke was just remebering how bad the comedown would be for a under a minute rush..
 
I had a really hard time, the only reason I quit was I got some shit was a little too good and damn near died. I haven't touched it since. Now I had a kid and I don't do shit like that now. I wish you the best of luck I know it's hard.. My advice is to not listen to music that mentions coke, watch movies or tv shows with coke in it and stay away from people that make it accessable to you. It's going to be hard but if you're serious about it, this will make it easier on you. It's been years since I have touched it but still when I watch a movie like Blow, listen to music about coke I get the urge.. but I would rather not die.. That last shit I got was wayy tooo fucking good.. and I damn near died.
 
Tip of the iceberg my friend, all i can say is stop before you acquire a REAL problem. One can only truly learn the hard way, and sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
 
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