Cutting down and cleaning : suggestions for slowing down/stopping cocaine use

Well ive decided i need to give it upfor a little bit. and i just finished my last bit and i can already tell its going to be hard as shat. Anyone here quit or atleast stopped for a month or so? Its just that i dont wanna spend the money that i have but need to go to other shit.


Thanks.....

[Patrick131]

yes yayo, it can be hard but after a few days or even a week you will feel better about your decision. there is always going to be triggers that remind you of it throughout the day, but i always made sure to remind myself why i was quitting.


i also found it helpful to tell my close friends that i was taking a break. if they're good friends they will respect that and not call you saturday and tell you that they have a line with your name on it. and if you slip up here or there, just get up and try and get back on track. good luck

[paradigmSF]

I quit last May after graduating college.



I just started up again last weekend (so about 8 months llello-free).



I experimented a lot in college and never found an addictive
personality. I'd get the psychological cravings, but after
the comedown the last time I did it in May, I never had a physical need.



Part of the reason was maybe that I had no supplier. I suppose that's why I restarted last weekend (w00t).



Anyways, if you don't think your physical dependance is too bad, just
go cold turkey and FOR SURE avoid your friends who use. I have
done things cold turkey and tried the opposite, thinking that if I can
be clean around them, I can be clean anywhere, but it makes you
eventually become to hate your friends.



-p

[manda]

I have quit for months, even over a year at a time...
I think the worst part about slowing down or totally quitting is mental... When I don't do it, I think of the next time I will do it, and when I totally quit for a year and a half I got drunk every day, and worked.
Having a job and living clean was really cool, but I sure wouldn't want to go back to work for a drug-testing company again.

IN SHORT: When trying to quit or slow down, the memories of how good it felt/how much I liked it really fucked with my head. Hanging out with other users without partaking was hard also, so be careful.
If you don't want to leave the country, don't pick an airport to hang out...
Good luck. It's easy to keep control when there isn't access to lots of cash, like the way I live now.
In the past, when the money tree was blooming, I really spun off... It was fun, but moderation makes it all the more sweeter.

[The Boss]

Even though this is bad for buisness the best way to quit that lovely powder is to remember this one word. H.A.L.T. The reason 90% of your urges to snort a line come when your Hungry, Angry, Lonely orTired. I found that lifting weights when im angry helps calm my need to dip into my stash. Each urgewill only lastabout 15-30 minutes tops and when you feel the urge as yourself, am i hungry angry lonely or tired? Figure out which and take care of it as needed and you should be fine.

I thank you all for all of your help, opinions, and ways of quitting that yey. The good thing is that i am the only person that actually did or does coke as much as me in my whole high school. so i dont have to worry about hanging around it or with it. As for doing things that might remind me of it, that is kinda hard for the fact that everything every day envolved that giant line. Exspecialy music. Well im going good and yea getting drunk is a good way to take your thoughts off it ive gotten drunk everyday since i stopped so far. i am going to use a little bit but i have a good amount of money in my safe/bank. that is the money i dont wanna spend but i have some old stuff thats worth like 250 so i figure for my one friend, who also quit using, on his birth day ill go out and get a quarter. and again, thanks to all of you...


ayo for no yayo

[paulywould]

The worst part about coke is that if you've don't it very often for a long period of time, after you quit and go through withdrawls a peroid of nothingness can enter your life for up to two years. During this time nothing will make you happy. I'm not saying you will be sad, b ut nothing will make you happy.You caould get a new job a bigger house and win the lottery and all you would think is "ohh...that's nice...no big deal." This is because cocaine works so hard on the dopamine in the brain. Itstops it from being reabsorbed and slows them from breakiing down. This chemical makes you feel GREAT. Once you get off, if you have been on for long enough, a lenght of time which differs in each person, your brain doesn't make the neurotransmitter dopamine anymore and it will take a while of abstinence before it does. Don't worry though, it will. I have been off coke, with a few slips here and there, for 5 years and everything is back to normal. It's difficult but worth it. Even taking a short time off if you don't plan to quit will make the buzz that much better when you do it again.


Paulywould

[Solo2003]

Man, this is definitely the 64K dollar question. I personally feel that trying to stop using snow is the absolute hardest thing I have ever tried to do. I have been able to limit my skiing to a couple of times per month and even can get through 6 or 7 weeks, but usually something happens in my personal life and it only takes a small window of opportunity and Bingo, I go skiing for a day or two. I have not read any studies or reports, blah, blah.......but I would bet a few C notes that depression, trauma, financial or problems with a relationship triggers that "first time" scenario and Bammmmmm!!!! Your hooked in some form or fashion. All of the above was what initiated my curiosity with the "White Devil"...I have noticed that when I keep myself busy with work and busy with life I am fine....Slow down and leave myself open, I am on the cell," got a g handy"...

I have had some success replacing the urge for the slopes with a shot of Patrone or very dark Euro Beer. Gives a hard kick and an long lasting buzz.

Just a thought

[GerhardV]

I did yayo very regularly for quite some time. I don't know what happened, but one day I woke up (after a 15 or so hour binge) and just thought I'd had enough. At that time I still knew that if it was in front of me I would have a very difficult time keeping myself from bumping a line or many lines. It was always around because my friends and I hung out and did it often. But When I went to college, I got away from those friends and that made it much easier to stop. I think if you distance yourself from the people who do it a lot, and you arent exposed to it on a regular basis, you will be suprised at how much easier it is to stop. Now, a few months later, just thinking of the horrible comedown makes me not want to do it... but then again if i had some xanax....
basically just try to stay away from the drug and the users

[DivineDesign21]

I'm quitting after near death experience yesterday. Ten years of basing is enough.



Crack won't buy me a house.

Crack won't put clothes on my back.

Crack won't hold me tight when I'm scared. (but it'll sure scare the shit out of me)

Crack won't love me when I need it.

Crack won't go to work for me and earn a living.

Crack just sucks.



I'm done.


Edited by: DivineDesign21

[raven3davis]

dont do X or adderall that will just probably bring up ancient feelings. Stay off all drugs for a while, because like you said, they dont feed you or put clothes on your back. Im glad to hear your off the chedda I hear it can be vey addictive, but you can make it through.

[suninmy_MOUTH]

SWIM has been away from the stuff for a few weeks now. Sees now that consistent usage of coke really coulds the mind for a while after the last time it was done. Took SWIM about ten days to really feel clear again, but didn't realize his mind was so muddy until after it was clear.

Anyhow, SWIM is of the opinion if one feels that one is doing too much coke (in the habitual sense), it's probably true. Things that can help is get rid of the suppliers contact info... (i.e. delete the number). Avoid friends who have it, or places where it is done. Be a homebody for a week or two, catch up on reading, get a few movies, go for a few walks. Perhaps even give ones bank card to a trusted friend, just having enough money for food around. SWIM thinks that one can stay strong of will and make better decisions after the mind has had a chance to clear up.

SWIM feels pretty good about not using, and hasn't really craved coke in any unmanageable way. Gonna try and stay that way too, says SWIM.

Good luck to those trying to get themselves in order, and post other tips and tricks here for staying away.

*note* SWIM posted more detials of the thoughts above in the recovery section, thought it might be better served there.

[doublezero]

try some exercise, swim used to get a little buzz after a hundred push ups, natural buzz, endorphins man

[Alfa]

It might be worthwhile to check the Ibogaine topics.

[Deckstruct 11]

dont be scared of Tabernanthe Iboga you may need it if you feel you're in too deep. Sometimes and this is very true we need to findour scrotum hold one tightly to those balls and "confront your fears as well asthose desires cause itisn't just about fun and games sometimes you hurt and evencry then you laugh andwe allget high but at the end of it all, no matter what you do, remember thatin the way that you wereborn in that same manneryou willdie...........alone"


- Me


think about it NIACINE and don't be offended im just giving my opinion and if you need/want to PM me my friend, im alwaysall ears for you.


but here is another when someone says


I want to quit __________ but or starting ________. Thanthey really dont want to quit that addiction. Everything is done with a decision that takes effect in the moment saying that one wants to but.... is a way of feeling betterof oraccepting their situation that gives them an uncertainty about its moral values. cause remember what makes you feel bad might not make others feel the same


How many times do you need to fall on ass and break a fingerbeforeyou decide that using a ladder is better than jumping down from your tree house or do keep onsaying "yes i know but or you know whatnext time I'll....."


there is saying I would to post it states:


Before going out to try and change the worldaround you in the intent to help things out why don't you turn around and give your own house 2 or 3 revisions.


and don't expect a SWIM at this moment cause we're talking about something I feel real strongly and you should know that NIACINE remember our little Mexico, cocaine conversation well do you see what I'm talking about now?


LOVE to all out there who care enough to worry about others even if its SWIT "someone who isnt them"


PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT and ...........Edited by: gandhi

[Nicaine]

gandhi,

SWIM (the guy I post for) is a binge-er, and always has been. Meaning, he gets in deep but always gets out again. The difficulty of breaking a decades long pattern of several months use followed by years away is a problem nobody has ever solved. Ibogaine is not going to solve it, at best it might stop his current binge.

[stephanee]

Crack addiction is psychological imho. On a few occasions I've had access to a largeamount, did it over at most a couple of weeks and when it was finished, that was it. In fact, towards the end I was glad as hellit was soon to be over, because as long as it was there, it was literally screaming to be smoked, regardless of the circumstance .


I can actually remember getting to the final 6 or so grams and thinking thank f**k this is going to endsoon - while lighting up yet another pipe! When it was over - after checking absolutely everywhere for crumbs (as you do ) I was so damned relieved. Slept for ages, ate like a pig over the next few days and gradually got back to normal. That was aboutNov 2003.


Extricating yourself from physical addiction would be excruciating - like heroin withdrawal, which from all accountsispretty gruesome (thankfully, I've never had that misfortune).


Who knows what would have happened if I had a crack dealer at the top of my street when the stash was over - but the fact of the matter was I had a fewounceswhich I'd got at a ridiculously cheap price from thousands of miles away and replenishing was out of the question; a trip down to some notorious area of London to buy comparatively tiny amounts of rubbish at excessive prices from folks I didn't know never even occured to me. I've had onesession since, in March 2004, withafraction of that amount and pretty much the same results.


So, in conclusion, ifcrack was physically addictive, after injestingthatmuch I'd be so hooked I would either have found some source, or had severe withdrawal symptons. I do still have the occasional dream about it though...


(Phew! That was an explanation and a half )

[Nagognog2]

If it feels too rough getting off the coke, see a doctor and explain your situation. Several medications out there can help take the edge off. Benzodiazepines for your nerous disposition, possibly a beta-blocker to combat your confused blood pressure and heart rate. But you need a doctor to do this. Don't play around yourself - most people overdo it. Like you have with the coke.

[b16a]

Bar none, the best way to kick it is cut out everything and everyone that you associate with it. Combined with will power, you can slowly draw yourself away from it. There is no physical addiction to coke, so removing all the 'X-factors' of your addiction will soon lead to the end of your cravings. You MUST remove ALL things in your life that will lead to a potential re-lapse though. This includes drinking (like SWIM, who has two drinks and automatically wants to get high), friends that antagonize or pressure you to do coke, or whatever triggers that voice in the back of your head that says "just one more time". It's not easy to quit, but do your absolute best to ignore temptation. Cold turkey is not the way, it's futile to expect that it's that easy to stop for good. Try crossing off 5 or 6 days on a calendar that you will not do coke. For each day that you succeed, cross that day off again to track your progress. Eventually, the feeling of self-improvement by realizing that it doesn't have to control your life will be enough to give you the power to say no! Best wishes and good luck!

[dremilix]

SWIM gave it up so he could make more money off selling it. SWIM was doing at least a quarter oz a night and gave it up just by realizing how much money he'd have built up if he wasn't using.

[Bladerunner]

Just curious about things or circumstances that may motivate someone to quit recreational use. I remember Davina McCall went clean after a close friend of hers OD'd. Although she has said she's too frightened to touch alcohol too as she has too much of an addictive personality.

[edoggg]

every time swim tried to quit 'just because' she always ended up back on it. the last dance wsa when swim watched her love OD, seizure and all. that made swim disgusted and repulsed by the sight/smell of coke.

[Bladerunner]

Yes I know a couple of people who've had to give up recreational use mainly because they've just learnt the firms they work for are going to do random drug/alcohol testing. Motivation to give up if ever there was any!

[AceOvArts]

SWIM is quitting, its going ok so far Its now 3 weeks since he binged out and he is feeling strong at the moment. He deleted all his dealers details and although he had a fairly shit day at work today he told me he still hasnt had the urge. My personal thoughts are that there will come a time when its not so easy. We shall see.

[wudupdoe]

well SWIM mainly quick crack cocaine outta pure will-power...its hard and SWIM just tried a few days ago drinking energy drinks to help with the cravings and no joke, its really really helping.