I REALLY feel now is time for me to get clean...

[Jimmy_Pop]

I'm not talking about just any one drug in particular.

I'm addicted to smokes and stims, and I drink too much too.

I just want to put this all behind me, like now.

It's clear how badly all this stuff is holding me back.

I'm actually starting to get PISSED at myself for still doing this shit.

I just want to put it all behind me ASAP.

Should I just try to quit all of them right now, or should I tackle one first then move on to the others?

I want to take at least a first step, like, today.

I'm really eager to put this all behind me...

 

[Missykins]

The booze and the stims should come first, followed by the smokes. Do you have a plan for getting clean?

 

[It's a baby!]

How much is "drinks too much"? Are you the sort of person who gets drunk too often, or the sort of person who walks around with a bottle of "orange juice" at all hours of the day? If the latter, you may want to withdraw from the alcohol in a hospital. If the former, you will experience some jitteriness and weird dreams but that's just acute alcohol withdrawal, not delirium tremens (though it might make you feel so bad that you think you're having DT's, or that was my experience anyway).

I'd say quit the stims and alcohol immediately, assuming you're not a truly serious alcoholic, and keep smoking cigs until you've stopped stressing about stims and alcohol. I had a bad addiction to synthetic cannabinoids and when I quit I started getting panic attacks. Since my panic attacks feel like heart attacks, I figured I'd stop smoking so that my heart wouldn't get so stressed, but this just caused more panic attacks.

Honestly of those three drugs in some ways nicotine is the hardest to quit, even though it doesn't make you high.

Good luck, you're already on the road to recovery, tell yourself that every day you don't drink or pop an addie is a good day. Using drugs to deal with emotions stunts our emotional development (this is not the same as brain damage, though physically your brain is out of whack too depending on how many stims you use and it will possibly take many months, even a year, for it to get all the way back to homeostasis), so your life will feel like it's going to shit once you quit. That's just your limbic system playing tricks on your mind.