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Cocaine Is it true that if you try crack once your chances of relapsing increases with time?

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I heard somewhere that if you try crack and decide never to touch it again your chances of relapsing on it goes up each decade. And I've heard plenty crackheads in their 50's say "I went 20 years without touching it"

I tried crack when I was 17, just a little over a year ago, I was like "this shit is too good," and decided never to touch it again. But I still sometimes think about it, I still sometimes have very detailed dreams that even imitate the feeling of the high.

I'm really scared that when I get older I'll lose the motivation to stay away from it. A part of me even tries to justify it by telling myself I can smoke every now and then and still be functional, that most crackheads get to enjoy the drug for decades before it messes them up bad, etc.

But I also heard that most people who try crack are unattracted to it and another part of me hates cocaine and wonders if I'm just making this up out of anxiety. I hate how short the high is and I hate the comedown. Seriously, 8 hours of depression and intense craving isn't worth that high that lasts as long as you hold the smoke in.

Please help.
 
Naw I think the longer a person stays off the better chance of not relapsing. I didn't use crack for very long time but the one time I relapsed it put me back in that ugly place. Instantly that experience reminded me of the harsh comedown and I remembered all the things I hated about crack. Maybe I should consider myself lucky.

I have a sister though, she's 45 and addicted to cocaine for at least 20 years. She mostly iv's now but still smokes it. She's probably one of those people you're thinking of who can't stay away from it.

What you're feeling is not imaginary, I remember those dreams too. What I hated was in the dreams there was always something stopping me from smoking. After time I think the cravings for the rush should lesson. Eventually I hope they go away completely.
 
I heard somewhere that if you try crack and decide never to touch it again your chances of relapsing on it goes up each decade. And I've heard plenty crackheads in their 50's say "I went 20 years without touching it"

I tried crack when I was 17, just a little over a year ago, I was like "this shit is too good," and decided never to touch it again. But I still sometimes think about it, I still sometimes have very detailed dreams that even imitate the feeling of the high.

I'm really scared that when I get older I'll lose the motivation to stay away from it. A part of me even tries to justify it by telling myself I can smoke every now and then and still be functional, that most crackheads get to enjoy the drug for decades before it messes them up bad, etc.

But I also heard that most people who try crack are unattracted to it and another part of me hates cocaine and wonders if I'm just making this up out of anxiety. I hate how short the high is and I hate the comedown. Seriously, 8 hours of depression and intense craving isn't worth that high that lasts as long as you hold the smoke in.

Please help.

i agree with this. Addictions is a life long fight. You can get clean but that dosent mean that you will stay clean for life. I went 5 years clean on street drugs from 20-25. turned 25 in oct 2012 Relasped hard, almost died 3 time this year, got cleanish, (again) but still have a hugh weed/benzo habit.
Im trying to get off the benzos next, its been 8 years on them and i hate my doc for giving them to me with letting me know about how addicting they were or the insidious W/D when i was so young. 4th time having to do it to, So i know what i am in for and how shit the taper will be.

Just try to occupy your self man. Thats all you can reallly do to take you mind off the time cravings.
 
Everytime you go back to using after a period of abstinence, your body becomes accustomed to the pattern more quickly. It's just how the human psyche works, we learn on a mental, physical, and physiologically level and they all have memory. It's not much different than learning a skill and becoming proficient at it over time, such as riding a bike. The first time takes a while to fully get onto the saddle and really get comfortable. Anytime after that takes far less effort. Even after decades of not doing it. You can't really think yourself one way or another, every body reacts in a fairly archetypical fashion.
 
I havent smoked crack in 2 years but I still get dreams for it where I'm trying to smoke some giant delicious boulder and my damn lighter wont light in the dream or I cant inhale or the rock keeps falling out the damn pipe. Its enough to really piss you off. When I started smoking crack 7 years ago I only did it because my roommate was a crack head and I thought ok if i do it with her and do a bunch of it with her she will be sick of it and stop (WHAT A MORON I WAS) It started with 300 dollars and then another 300 dollars on the first day and then I ended up smoking every day after that for 5 years. I was smoking around 100-200 a day in the beginning but by the end I was up to 500 a day paid in cash and another 500 a day in fronts or "gifts" from the dope man I lived with because I lost everything I owned. It doesn't happen to everyone like that but it does to most people. I got clean and was good for nearly a year and I relapsed I picked it up like I had just stopped yesterday and before I knew it a month had gone by and i was under a rock. Since then I have been clean another year and as of the past week i have been craving it really badly which is what brought me to the forum because i just wanted to read about it and kinda relive it in my mind. I'd highly recommend you avoid it if possible.
 
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this is bullshit. i smoked crack a few times, and i certainly will never turn into a crackhead. a drug with a duration of 5 minutes i could never get hooked on. i sometimes use it for IV speedballs, since crack is easy to score here and cocaine isn't. you can get it if you have a connection but you can't buy it on the streets.
 
Crack? It's so goddamn expensive, you blow your paycheck on it in one night and fucking starve for a week. MDPV though, stay away!!!! Don't get me wrong I wasted a lot of money on coke for some reason.........

But I'm not sure what you're asking.... if you smoke crack/slam coke once then you'll never forget the way it made you feel.....

Smart and responsible people are scared. Self destructive and impulsive people may be crackheads.
 
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