Scared How to stop using blow?

[Deleted member 507397]

Idk sleep for a few days

 

[diggitybomb]

It fucks with your frontal cortex. Rewires your brain at the decision making level. So stopping is extremely hard. You don't know where that thought and urge come from and you hit your plug and before you know it you're a half a bag deep. Also your brain is depleted of dopamine and knows only one way to fix it. The this is it the last time shit.. that's temporary. Change your routine, face your fears, talk to people that you are hiding it from, and fucking therapy. It goes away like a deep heartbreak. Always there but you've learned ways to stop suffering from the consequences. Refuge Recovery is an amazing group started by old punk rockers that have the same problem you do.
I hope you find peace and I believe that you will.

 

[Jnowhere]

There is some evidence that the anticonvulsants carbamazepine or valproic acid reduce drug cravings. The mood stabilizing effects are beneficial during withdrawal as well. I had some stimulant problems for like a year, and they really helped. All that said, a really good friend of mine did a residential cocaine rehab in Santiago, Chile. This is a bigger problem in SA than people in the US realize as cocaine is so cheap. The place he went to wasn't at all expensive. I would think Brazil would be pretty similar.

at one point Brazil was the kidnapping capital of the world. Gringos, should stay away.

 

[PtahTek]

i always found a largish cul of whole cow milk to take a lot of the edge off.
after there is hopefully a bit if indica weed around as that usually ends the coke caos for me.

 

[washingtonbound]

so for about 4 or 5 months now, I've been using cocaine daily. Used to only do it on occasion but I've been using on and off for about 10 years. The amount has increased gradually & I have plateaued at a point where I'm getting a quarter O every week. I previously had issues with K usage to the point where I was hospitalized for gall stones from it, and I pretty much replaced one addiction for another-- except this one has been far less problematic for the most part. I still use MAYBE a half g of K a day. For years I have had trouble with sleeping way too much (12-16 hrs daily). Have recently done a bunch of blood tests over it (awaiting follow up appt) and found out I'm anemic. So I'm pretty sure my usage stems from trying to fix my sleep patterns. In recent weeks I've been becoming concerned about my usage. Every day I have to switch off nostrils bcuz one hurts too bad and can't handle it. Today I accidentally did one line out of the wrong nostril and sent myself into excruciating pain to the point where my eyes were continuously watering/dumping tears for an hour or two. This side of my nose suddenly feels very open, like i can breathe in more air than i used to in a weird spot on the back of my nasal passage before it turns downward which is obviously concerning. I use as soon as I wake up til about an hour before I go to bed. Super clean stuff that I can eat & sleep on.. but this pain has me concerned. It hasn't impacted my life in any other negative manner aside from draining a bit of money and mild occasional anxiety, but it's financially sustainable considering my income. Ive only been more productive on it. Just mostly problematic to my health.

How the heck do I get myself to stop waking up and doing a line? Is there something I can supplement to help myself feel better? An alternative route? Boofing is inconvenient. Something softer to bridge the gap?

Please help. Not comfortable in admitting myself into a rehab yet & I know this is something I need to chill out on.

What made me stop was having a terrifying overdose in Colombia. I was in Medellin and had started a gram a day habit after getting introduced to it at the skatepark. I remember I had issues with bloody mucus as well because I didn't always break it down very well. Really disgusting. One day I guess I did a bigger line than usual and had a horrible time. Arrythmia like nothing I'd ever seen before, chest pain. I've never been as scared of an OD as I was during that incident. After that I never used it again.

 

[washingtonbound]

at one point Brazil was the kidnapping capital of the world. Gringos, should stay away.

I just spent ten months in Brazil. You have typical street urchins who will say "marijuana, cocaine," as you pass them in some tourist areas, but it wasn't as pervasive as I thought it would be. I never ended up getting robbed nor witnessed anything. Basically just don't be wandering around neighborhoods you have no business being in at night and it's as safe as most other latam countries in my opinion.
What I didn't like about Brazil is that the people tend to be extremely loud.