Yep, you're right, but for an additive personality, at least mine, that shit is easier said than done, and I will probably do Kratom the way I did the rest and that is to get tired of the shit and quit.
Doesn't mean it's easy or fun and after 3 years straight it's going to be a fucking bitch, but I have a ton and am weaning as we speak and I will try to quit with product in stash as I did with Methadone...it just wasn't fun any more.
Oh don't get me wrong I have a very addictive personality too and would probably consider myself a poly drug abuser between that, alcohol, ocassional F-Phenibut, Klonopin only for anxiety, drinking WAY too much coffee, eating too much, sleeping too much, weed, etc, everything too much lol.
But the difference with Kratom is I'm actually scared of getting too addicted so that keeps me in check.
Years ago when I first came on here and was introduced to it I heard the stories of how tough it can be for some people to stop and decided I wouldn't let it happen, but I mean I slipped up again today and broke my rule just like I did last week and took it 3 days in a row.
I wouldn't have, but I was hungover and had to go to a class and felt I needed something to take to feel better and Kratom was all I had that would work.
Now I might or might not have a few days of WD that I'll tough out.
That's the tough part: when you mess up and have some WD but have important things to do you HAVE to do and its either do them while feeling like shit and not dose and tough out the WD (which is really what you HAVE to do), or give in to taking some and then make your WD worse. Sometimes I can do that if I taper and take a mini dose till I have a long weekend and then use that to abstain, but it's always a fine line.
It's a tight rope to walk between Kratom or F-Phenibut for fun, coffee to wake up which makes me all jittery as I drink too much, alcohol to wind down or crashing from the caffeine but then I get a hangover and need Kratom too feel better, etc and still manage to get my shit done.
Most of us addicts have to walk the line and we slip up and deal with it.
I'd say if anything its the less catastrophic ways these things fuck me up like missing my workout today because of it, but it adds up and lessens quality of life.
Then again, I just love Kratom too much.
You gotta do what you gotta do, either accept the downsides and use certain substances or quit.
I don't usually "quit", but I do abstain for long periods of time like how I went almost a year without Kratom before last December, and sooner or later I'm sure I'll stop for quite a while again.
Who knows, maybe someday I'll quit all drugs...can't imagine it now, but I certainly wouldn't rule it out.