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You most definitely must want to quit before you will successfully quit. You must derive no enjoyment from the experience of using. The pain and or fear must exceed the pleasure each time you use. It's then a matter of deciding to no longer hang out with users (even though they are friends) and consciously exploring and finding alternative ways to spend your time now that you aren't spending it scoring & using.
If you haven't reached that point where using is more painful or problematic than it is pleasurable, then stop messing with thinking about quitting. Enjoy yourself. Practise moderation if you can. Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think---and this place is Hell. Is it therefore deserving of sobriety & denial of desires just because SOME or even MOST people say it is unhealthy & naughty? We live in Hell. Do we really wanna worry about prolonging our existence here? I say, SMOKE 'EM IF YOU'VE GOT 'EM! And ditto for drinking & snorting & and all the rest.
No one gets out of this life without loads of illness, injuries, misery, and pain. The clean & sober "healthy" people don't really have it any easier than anyone else. They still get ill. They still get betrayed. They still go into debt. They still get injured and they still die horrible deaths like everyone else.
I would be a drinkie/druggie if my outlook was this bleak.
I just accepted my addiction. The 12-step program was of no help because I don't believe in a higher being. The only thing that kind of helped me take my addiction down a notch was my belief in a lower being--myself as a homeless guy because I squandered all my money on my addiction. I was heading in that direction and living more miserably wasn't something I was prepared to do for my addiction.
Accept your addiction. Just take it down a notch. Continue on living. It works.
No one gets out of this life without loads of illness, injuries, misery, and pain. The clean & sober "healthy" people don't really have it any easier than anyone else. They still get ill. They still get betrayed. They still go into debt. They still get injured and they still die horrible deaths like everyone else.
Is this one of those "mother tells her son to wash his hands and son replies - "why bother, they will get dirty again anyways"" stories?
therapy helps a lot but from my experience it only helps if you're the one who has chosen to participate.
i have overcome an addiction and a few other things that helped me: gradually cutting down vs. going cold turkey, practicing mindfulness, maintaining supportive people in my life, journaling.
also i had a traumatic experience that motivated me. physical side effects also motivated me. wanting to have children motivated me, too.
I quite smoking in 1974. I only smoked when not at work but realized even then I was addicted. I just shrugged it off. I used the patch and stopped because I recongized the heath reason to stop.
Cannabis ("marijuana") can help people quit tobacco & can make alcoholics become moderate drinkers. It has helped with other addictions, too, see "marijuana, the anti-drug".
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