RE: Substance Abuse Recovery Thread
November 28, 2016 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2016 at 10:00 pm by paulpablo.)
I'm pretty hedonistic and pleasure focused so I think if my heart never skipped beats when I drank and smoke and all the other stuff I'd probably still be doing a lot of that now so it's sort of a blessing in disguise that it does.
Nicotine is definitely the most monstrously difficult drug I've had to quit.
It took me a few tries but by the final try I really put psychotic effort into it.
I think that's the bottom line is that anyone who wants to do it enough can quit. Apart from in circumstances of extreme physical addiction the body won't die from a withdrawl so you just have to do whatever you can to physically not take the substance.
I used distractions, will power, forward planning. Like I used to think to myself even if a family member dies I'm not going to light up a cig to cope. Or if I get an injury or I've just had a bad day.
Twice I actually found full packets of cigs on the floor in the street at separate times while I was trying to quit. That was a fucking hurdle. I ended up just giving them away to some grateful smoker at work.
Nicotine is definitely the most monstrously difficult drug I've had to quit.
It took me a few tries but by the final try I really put psychotic effort into it.
I think that's the bottom line is that anyone who wants to do it enough can quit. Apart from in circumstances of extreme physical addiction the body won't die from a withdrawl so you just have to do whatever you can to physically not take the substance.
I used distractions, will power, forward planning. Like I used to think to myself even if a family member dies I'm not going to light up a cig to cope. Or if I get an injury or I've just had a bad day.
Twice I actually found full packets of cigs on the floor in the street at separate times while I was trying to quit. That was a fucking hurdle. I ended up just giving them away to some grateful smoker at work.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
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