Quitting the only 3 drugs left.

[rollingstoned!]

Main question:
Has anyone here gone from eating drugs like candy (or smoking them) to using once per year or not at all (at least for over 3 years)? If so, how long did it take you to start feeling better after quitting ALL of them? I am including and emphasizing the feeling of shit when quitting alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco.

Extra information:
I only use tobacco, caffeine, and alcohol nowadays. I quit the rest (MDMA, pills, rare opiate binges, DXM, nitrous, speed, and marijuana) telling myself I only wanted the 3 legal, readily available drugs. Now the only reason I want these 3 is because I am addicted to them because I fear the unknown timeline of feeling like shit. I want to be drug free for a while. Also, I'm going to stick with the assumption that I will eventually feel better after I get used to my brain working without alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, nornicotine, and anabasine (last 2 are MAOIs in tobacco). I realize this could take years in the case of my cannabinoid system going back to functioning without the aid of THC. I won't lie to myself that I know THC is one sticky fat soluble molecule, and hence will take more time to adjust itself then say, my cholinergenic system will.

The main thing I am worried about is although quitting speed, DXM, marijuana, and MDMA sucked, I always had alcohol, tobacco, and coffee to fall back on. Now there will be NOTHING to fall back on, and I realize this will take adjusting to. But I haven't met anyone who has gone from doing lots of drugs, to none. Even people in AA smoke like crazy and drink coffee. Once again, although these drugs are arguabley "mild" in effect, they are drugs.

 

[jackie jones]

You do not need to fall back on any drug if you really want to quit. You just need a good reason.

 

[NotQuiteAnonymous]

My fiance quit 6 years of hardcore polydrug abuse including MDMA LSD (used dailyfor awhile) heroin, meth, coke, pills, shrooms, nicotine and alcohol (only smoked pot...still does). He wasn't right for a few years.

I quit everything legal and not including pot, coke (1/8th oz a day habit), nicotine, MDMA (every weekend for months), intermittant DXM use, morning glory seeds (daily use for awhile) one at a time starting in early 2003 with DXM, coke and MDMA and the rest before the start of 2004.

ive never had a prob with alcohol cuz even small amounts made me depressed and triggered migraines.

For me nicotine has been the hardest to stay away from. I've gone 1 year without and 2 years another time but have always relapsed in times of incredible stress...but i also never felt right at all before the nicotine. Everything else took about 6 months of eating right and exercising to recover from.

Ppl i know who love their nicotine with their caffeine (my dad was a coffee/cigarette addict) quit nicotine successfully after tapering for months and switching to decaf. He watched his diet carefully and began a moderate exercise plan which he swears helped him feel better than before after he made it 8 weeks without either substance.

Best of luck to you!

 

[rollingstoned!]

You do not need to fall back on any drug if you really want to quit. You just need a good reason.

I really want to quit and have many great reasons to quit, believe me. However the problem is not falling back onto the drug, but getting some idea of how long I will have my GABA receptors working abnormally, or how long it will take for dopamine receptors to upregulate. If you do not understand this, essentially I WILL feel different (feels like shit to me) and I'd like to have it in the back of my head how long this will go on. Because if I quit for a month and still feel like shit, I'll have to go on using.

Thank you NotQuiteAnonymous for one timeline. I feel better already because I am only on year 5ish of not-quite-so-hardcore use.

So no one on bluelight is drug free complete lee??? Hard to believe

 

[jackie jones]

^I have not dosed in three weeks, aside from some hydrocodone a few days ago. I stopped after that because the girl I care for does not want me to dose. She is my good reason.

So yeah. I am drug free. I like to dose, but I do not want to lose the respect of this girl. I know there is such thing as responsible, healthy drug use, yet she disagrees... and she is brighter than I am, so I have to listen.

 

[Legerity]

Do you want to quit them all at once? That would be pretty harsh. For me if I quit caffeine after consuming it heavily for a while I get knocked on my ass for a week.

I quit nicotine in December and it probably took me a couple of months to feel decent. My anxiety went through the rough and I started doing therapy which was very helpful. But I'm an anxious person in general it doesn't mean that will happen And go figure now I'm starting to want to smoke again...