Sucessfully quitting drugs?

[Issac Sinclair]

For those of you who quit drugs, was there a sudden realization that just made you quit? I quit my speed every few weeks-months to restart it again a few weeks or a week again. It stops working, I let my tolerance go down, and then I do it all over again. I'd love to hear success from all spectrums. I know a lot of opiate addicts take methadone/subxone, but I'm not sure if theres such a replacement for speed, caffeine sure as hell doesn't work. I got on weak opiates for a short time, but thats just replacing an addiction with another one. Help!

 

[kaywholed]

The best way for me to quit drugs (weed), is by going places where I cant get it.

 

[chitown rollin]

I've been clean for almost 60 days now. you have to WANT it man. if you quit doing drugs for a few weeks at a time and then go back to it everytime then you must not really want to be sober. for me there was something big that happened (going to the hospital), but I had already decided I wanted to stop and once I did I realized how much better living a sober life is. coming on this website is a daily reminder of how drugs ruin people's lives and what a better place I'm in. please PM me if you want to talk I'd love to help ya out.

 

[ChristBait]

cross-addiction. I just replaced my meth habit by becoming an alcoholic. Seems to be more acceptable by society.

 

[chitown rollin]

^^^ hahaha i hope this is a joke.

 

[halfoz]

since "speed" has nothing at all like the wd symptoms that opiates have, there's really no need to seek a replacement therapy. you can just stop taking your speed, sleep like a rock for a few days, and go on about your business.

i quit meth after a few years run and haven't touched it since. pm me if you want to discuss in more detail.

 

[godlovesugly]

i do the same thing...relapse after relapse with speed. get clean for awhile, then get bored, relapse, start using hardcore again, going on LONG runs with it, then get sick of it and get clean again...

ive been off meth for 3 weeks. for me, everytime i go back out, its gets WORSE AND WORSE. things were getting crazier and just all around bad. dont wanna go into it, but im sure you know how it goes...as time goes on, it gets easier. i think of how much i just DESPISE meth now. it makes me literally SICK to think about all the things i did [and didnt do] well on meth. it really just disgusts me...meth has no appeal to me anymore. sure i get cravings still. but it passes. i just know i cannot use. NO MATTER WHAT.

 

[panic in paradise]

i do the same thing...relapse after relapse with speed. get clean for awhile, then get bored, relapse,

bored:
its where relapses just love to dwell.
this is what i hear 3/5 people use as a reason
to use again.

saying "im bored" lets the mind focus on frustrations, saying i am boring... is an insulting lie unto oneself - with bits of that manipulator still manipulating up there.

maybe you know this GLU, but, most never let the thought cross their mind.


how many negative connotations, can i list that come from "bored"...?
too many, niivermind it.

 

[SececaRD]

it took me 2 years in rehab, in 3 different places, getting a felony, homelessness.


Basicly the pain has to be greater then the pleasure thats when youll quit. That seems to be the rock bottom everyone talks about.

Not everone, but majority of harcore users.

Sean