Tolerance breaks

[kamesaa1]

Does taking a break really lower your tolerance?

Doesn't seem to work for me

 

[mrflowers00]

yeah but it takes time

 

[Coraline]

You have to have some will power to really lower your tolerance. Tomm I'm going to taper my doses down. It's going to be hard because I have lots of pain, but I know I will benifit from it in the long run. I'm going to break my medications in half and take it that way (half the dose). And I will add more Advil to help with the pain.

 

[lcrlover]

I would think it depends on the substance. I know I stayed off my low-level usage of opiates for 6 months and my dosage never even wavered. I use blends and pot a lot. Tolerance break for me is several days to a week of non-use for either & a huge reward will be received in euphoria when usage begins again
Edit to say I'm not that great at will power, so when I stop taking one thing I like to have another thing to begin using, like a crutch.

 

[kamesaa1]

I sometimes took breaks that lasted months and nothing.. Same tolerance

 

[J.Wallace]

Depends on the substance.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

It definetley works.. but it doesn't happen over night. Tolerence is a funny thing.. it will lower as you take longer breaks, however there is a certain threshold that it often wont go lower than for even years off of a certain drug. Heroin in particular is like this.