Addiction General /AG/

IV cocaine
Heroin
Adderall
Crack
Kratom
Phenibut
Benzos/Research benzos
GHB
Alcohol
Meth

7 months clean

Good to see a thread on this

booze. i've been a binge drinker forever. don't drink daily or anything, but have been on many friday-monday benders. also use drugs occasionally but not much recently. a couple weeks ago i went out with a coworker, blacked out a couple nights in a row + day drinking. she ended up driving one day and i was passed out, we come to in a parking lot and there's a cop car. i don't know how we got out of her getting a DUI but i was in the drunk tank for 6 hours. got out and went back out cause my phone was in her car and i tracked it to a bar (lol). ended up having a few drinks after reuniting and telling our tales but haven't drank since then. i've been going to the gym a lot more since then and want to keep with it. unfortunately that means isolating myself from friends even more, but i can't control myself when i drink and could get in a lot more trouble.

Used to be addicted to coke, and alcohol
Managed to cut both out completely when i fell in love with fitness.
Now im addicted to steroids though...
fugg

>so addicted to food that I literally can't be near it
>hide from junk food for years, strict diet, lose friends due to never going out with them
>finally become Veeky Forums
>meet girl of my dreams, she moves in with me
>she buys all sorts of junk food and leaves it around the place
>get fat as fuck within a few months
>she leaves me for Chad

What now bros?

Im the coke and alcohol guy..
ghb is pretty fun fuck forgot about that stuff.

>smoked weed every day for 6 years
>smoked a pack of cigarettes a day
>played vidya every waking moment

I've left that behind, though I'm on and off with the smokes. Can go years without them, then pick up the habit again. In a non-smoking period right now.

Now there's caffeine to quit, and perhaps Veeky Forums and anime at some point.

>Graduated high school at the end of 2012
>Most of that time between then and now was spent playing games
>Snap out of it
>Only have 8 months of actual job history behind me
>Have to study again so that I can get a good degree

I hate that it's probably going to be impossible to get a job now.

Everything. Drugs, games, sex, working out, I'm a limitless hedonist and I use my addictions to motivate me and give me energy.

I've conditioned myself to only enjoy my addictions if I've worked for them, if I've earned them. I've done it so much that I can't enjoy them if I haven't put in the work in that I feel is required to deserve them.

Because I'm addicted to the JOY things bring, not the things themselves (all my addictions are just proxies to hedonism), if it means the only way I can extract joy from them is to work hard and do all the shit I need to do to maintain a life within which I can enjoy them (studying, work, chores, workouts, etc.), I'll do all that shit without even having to force myself.

Porn and procrastination. A deadly combo

Opiates for 8 years. Many others for long periods. But always opiates.

Painkillers at 15, real addiction to heroin at 18, on and off dope and suboxone till 22. Methadone 22-25. Tapered from 120mg to 30mg. Will drop 5mg again soon.

Heavy lifting is an absolute miracle. Stops the physical discomfort and restlessness I've felt since a kid and worsened by opiates. Gives me something to strive for, something to lose if I fuck up. Truly a miracle.

youtube.com/watch?v=-5RCmu-HuTg&feature=youtu.be

Porn and internet in general. Pls help

Are you me? Even the 8 month shit is on point

We're both going to make it, user.

coffe, chainsmoker and internet i guess
thats it
dropped heavier drugs, even weed alcohol etc long ago and never looked back

Porn, the sissy fetish to be exact. I got too attached and let my grades in community college drop up until I dropped out.

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Fully functional stoner, I have basically been high almost everyday for the last half decade of my life. I feel very bizarre about it, I pity all of my alcoholic friends who are in the same boat. But I dont feel that we are in the same league. I guess I don't see weed and alcohol as being the same thing. I can get high off my ass and still drive to the gym, go grocery shopping, go to work, and make a healthy meal as if I was sober.

I beat addiction to food and weed.

Still addicted to porn and the internet though. Those don't really affect my life all that much though so I don't really mind too much.

basicly people do drugs to feel good.
I've subbed meditation and cold showers for heroin. the 2 together have helped me soo much. tho I must admit I have been doing kratom daily.

I used to be addicted to awful chinese research chemicals. Took me a long time to quit and when i finally got out of the hospital and rehab i had such atrophy and nerve damage i couldnt lift a pencil with either hand (seriously)
Now two and a half years later i have full mobility and I'm about to finally hit 1/2/3/4 and it feels amazing. Kinda like a rebirth. Theres no stronger motivation to lift than looking at an old photo of yourself in the ICU

Internet
Smoking
Videogames
Fast food

Which ones?

alcohol
Dilaudid
benzos/rc benzos (really fucked me up)
meth
sex
video games

I've been to impatient rehab twice. Sober for 17 months. Kind of obsessed with lifting but it's a healthier outlet.

I was able to stop videogames, binge eating, smoking and alcohol.

Now it's just the internet.
Literally at least 12 hours a day browsing pointlessly.

at this point do you feel like you have to be stoned to do those things? Does being out in public sober give you anxiety, Do you have a job and how often do you light up?

weed
porn
Caffine

These are my major vices. I will drink solo but very rarely do i get drunk.

Its easy to look at negative addictions though and get down. Look at the positive. I'm addicted to the gym and playing guitar so life's not all bad

I used to smoke a pack and a half a day for 5 years. For the last year and a half I was trying to stop but not making it, until I did because of a change in mindset

I always talk about this with people trying to cut an addiction out of their lives. Of course it depends on the thing, how you relate to it and etc, but to put it shortly, "if you promise to God, the Devil hears you".

For a long time I was trying to quit smoking by telling myself I would stop and never smoke again. Except when you promise something like that, the next day is unbearable, "the devil" makes the thing so much more tempting, you really grieve not having that ever again. The other side effect is that if you do come back to it, you go all in over again, afterall, your attempt to quit failed, so you leave to try again next week.

What I discovered is that there is only one cigarette for me not to smoke, which is the one that I could be smoking now. The key is to procrastinate addiction, to use that awful power of procrastination for our own good. I were to say "I won't smoke after lunch today, I'll leave to smoke at night" and at night I would leave it for tomorrow and then keep going without promising anything. In the first weeks I did smoke an occasional cigarette, but with that mindset, it's no big deal, you think "I did it early today, but I have no commitment to it, I can also skip this other cigarette of now", and so it doesn't return. Even today I smoke like two cigarettes a year and I don't think that's bad at all, I don't feel guilty or any signs of returning to smoke regularly.

Habits take the time of our live. Pay attention to what you are doing right now, avoid the addiction today and not today+tomorrow, because tomorrow you can come up with a new excuse NOT to do the harmful thing. Quite often, after a few minutes of not going for the addiction, the desire for it fades away, you surprisingly forget about it and will just come back later when you can again remember not to do it.

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Booze, drugs, video games, food?
yes

Drugs/alcohol

I'm in active recovery, everyone in my immediate family is an alcoholic. A lot of people in my extended family are alcoholics.

I was a habitual drinker, socially and by myself. I stopped for a period of time and started drinking "in moderation" a couple weeks later I was drinking habitually again. I've experienced almost zero external consequences;no dui, no job loss, was still active and relatively fit, so I thought I had it under control. But I hated that I couldn't stop drinking. In my infinate alcoholic wisdom I discovered I could satisfy my desire to drink with pain pills. I started with Vicodin a few times per week, and graduated to taking oxy everyday, when my demand outgrew my dealers supply I started supplementing with heroin (I'd take pills during the day and at work, and would smoke heroin at night), at least I wasn't drinking I guess. I was a very high functioning opiate addict and NOBODY in my life had a clue I was using.

One day I had a moment of clarity and decided I could do life without drugs, that weekend I had rented a motel room in a shit town about 500 miles away from home and stayed there for a week going through terrible withdrawals by myself. After a lot of self reflection I figured I was better off not drinking at all.

Happy to report I'm over two years clean and sober today and my life has never been better. I have AA to thank for that. My fitness had certainly improved and the stress and anxiety of life is much more manageable. I have almost no financial stress because I don't have to worry about paying for life and paying for "the party". I've found a new girl who is 100% amazing in every aspect. It's great.

Sometimes I think having a beer would sound nice, and I'm a very disciplined dude so it's possible for me to manage drinking. But I don't want to have to manage it. And now I can be an example to my friends and family who are experiencing their own struggles with using.

>food
>weed
>coke
>xanax
>fap
>internet
>runescape
>sugar

>Can go years without them, then pick up the habit again.
I'm the same but with video games. I went into gaming binges lasting weeks and then without for months. Why can't we just eliminate the crave from our mind? Fuck

Booze
Cigarettes
Porn
Odd drug binge

Now I swim 3 days a week and work out twice a week. Keeps me occupied.

Got over:
Weed
Addy
Benzos

Still have:
Porn
Smoking
Internet

Getting there lads

Caffeine, no joke
When I went to live with my mom again at 23 she one day bought me some Starbucks coffee packets. I never really drinker coffee before and she premade a drink so I tried it, tasted horrible. So I added another packet and drank it

I was literally jumping off walls and climbing trees. I then drank the others through out the week to get out of the caffine high. And since then I have been having caffeine regularly

I fucking hate it and used to scoff at coffee drinkers,

Mine is kind of similar
Got over:
Amphetamines of all kinds
Benzos
Smoking

Still have:
Porn
Weed
Internet

Was a weed addict for like 1 year, stopped when I noticed how fucking stupid I got. I feel like I've smoked half my brain away.
Also was a videogame addict when I was like 15. Played like 12 hours a day when I didn't had school.

How do i stop wasting time on YT and beacome more concetrated?

I smoke weed after I workout to relax

Sometimes I put eggs in my ass

xanax all day errday niggas dont even care feeels good

holy fuck dude where are you from?

guys how do I quit weed?

I'm now currently living on weed. My question is not when will I smoke, it's more of when do I not smoke (ie working), the rest of the time I'm high like right now

just stop buying it?
I mean I guess I'm not the best to answer this as I still use it often but its as simple as that. Put your smoking utensils in your closet and move on

Used to be addicted to video games and porn. Installed coldturkey (a program that blocks out specific sites or programs like steam) and now I haven't played any pc games since late november (I play some fortnite like an hour a week just for some casual fun) and I haven't watched any porn since late january (If I'm horny I'll just jerk off like any normal lad).
If anyone has any problems with porn, video games, Veeky Forums or any social media I reccomend getting coldturkey. It's free

How do I quit being a "social smoker"? I work at the bar at our student dorm, so I usually smoke three to six cigs once every week because I'm still used to it from back in the day where I was a confirmed smoker. Any other day of the week, I don't smoke. I don't even experience cold turkey, so it's less of an addiction and more of a social habit. Anyone made it and can give me some advice? Please help.

Alcohol and weed. Every time I try to quit I usually stay clean 1 week to a month. Always relapse eventually though.

We will make it brah
youtu.be/5tSTk1083VY
Watched this yesterday, and have never felt more motivated

Was heavily addicted into amphetamines for like some months, ended up with two suicide attempts, cause the crashs are fucked up.

Now my addictions are mostly internet and caffeine, i just went through a bad breakup, and even through i want to go out to drink and meet random sloots, i feel its not worth it, so im trying to stay sober, i plan on going to the beach and taking shrooms and dmt with a really close friend tho.

These are mine as well. Ive been on no pron for a bit now and doing pretty good.

>Literally at least 12 hours a day browsing pointlessly.
I'm in the same boat. My life consists of lifting, then Veeky Forums and video games. That's it. It's such an empty, lonely way to live.

Damn I want to ride the T train but Im worried I'll drink on it.

British Columbia

If you have a medical card, get rid of it. If it's recreationally legal where you live start downgrading. Buy shake instead of potent flower. Start focusing on smoking later in the evenings. Rather than smoking right after work, go for a walk and go to the gym. Smoke after dinner only. Make some friends. I know it sounds crazy but if you're alone in your place all weekend you're not going to want to do anything but blaze.

no way me2

Who /12steps/ here? Made a handful of my 9th step amends and have no will to keep going since a lot of the rest are women I used for sex and then ghosted and I really don’t feel like calling them up just to sit down with them and apologize for giving them the old fuck and chuck.

gtfo, van island?

Damn you need to get your shit together. I graduated the same time as you and I make 100k/yr

Food

With the help of Adipex and a little over a year I went from 365 to my current of 247. The medicine is meant to be short term and I've been on it for the 6 month limit. This month its time for me to come off of it and I'm scared. I think I have an actual eating disorder in terms of binging. I just want to die because I'm so ashamed that something like food has such a hold on me. Everyone keeps saying how good I look and I'm afraid I'll just gain it all back.

Might seem mild compared to a lot of guys here, but currently diet coke and porn. When I started losing weight 4 years ago I replaced all normal sodas with diet and combined with new lifestyle I lost 55 kg. Now if I dont drink atleast 1.5 liter a day or normally 3l I feel like shit and bored. Also I need to quit watching porn for a while because I recently noticed that I'm not that intrested in attracting women anymore.

Heroin. If i can overcome that then funk your videogame 'fagdiction'

When i drink it turns into 20-30 drinks for a 2-4 week period. Terrible shape. Surprised ive never wrecked. Stop workout out. I dropped out of college because of it. Once i start feeling good i get right back into it. It's a terrible disease. Alcohol withdrawals are awful awful awful. Joining the Air Force soon, hoping to just "drink beer" though i know how ridiculous that sounds.

Fast food, vaping, and alcohol. I'm a mess.

Yeah the failure you only get bc you spend so much time fking around on the internet dumbass

Will use right now
Thanks user

Was addicted to video games, quit 3 years ago, took up lifting.

Don't even care about vidya anymore. It seems to have actualized in my mind that it's quite literally, childs play.

Took up reading instead. Bitches get immeasurably wet when they see me at the library with bulging arms. I understand it's a rare sight.

Wasted 4,000 hours on Dota 2 not even shitting you right now. Video games are dopamine sapping pieces of shit.

t. skinny neet with no actual accomplishments

Smack head who now uses exercise to get those endorphins. I think ppl who have been addicted to opioids,are more sensitive to the natural pain killing chemicals your body releases when you exercise to exhaustion, then non opioid drug heads.

Is addiction to work a thing? I try to work every day I can and when I'm off I go to work anyways and talk with my coworkers. All of my friends are people I work with and like I have no hobbies or anything because I'm always at work. I don't even make that much only 10/hr

I'm addicted to selling. Nothing beats the high of closing a deal. I even prefer it over sex.

wrong. dota 2 is a dopamine sapping piece of shit. vidya can be a nice hobby to have in moderation. you just got addicted to a skinner box. that's like saying you got addicted to heroin, therefore your 1 cup of black coffee in the morning is poison

i was taking clonazolam flubromazolam diclazepam and etizolam daily at crazy doses. poppy seed tea too and lots of alcohol too before i got clean

yes nanaimo

Are you AT work or working? Those are two different things. Both of my parents are workaholics. My dad used to wake up at 4 am, work till around 5 am then go to the office where he arrived at 6 am and came back to the house at around 9 pm and worked a little bit more (til around 12 am).

Same. I relapse when I'm hungover though, almost every time. At least now the porn orgasms are notably dull, and I lose interest in women for a few days after I've had a porn binge, which I find depressing. I've been like that for years and people are noticing, and I'm making genuine efforts to connect and maybe find a gf so I'm undermining a goal.

I took Facebook off my phone (I have to use an internet explorer to access it) so I don't have it on my home screen and I don't get notifications in my notification bar, and for a while I was leaving my phone in the kitchen overnight but my alarm clock broke so it's back in my room with me. I should remove my browser app from the front page too

Good advice. I inadvertently do something similar when it comes to drinking (though I'm not an addict, I usually can't stop at one) - I fire up a fast paced videogame with minimal downtime (or start some IM chats on my phone or whatever that I need to respond to when I have downtime), so that both hands and my mind are occupied, and I'll usually end up finishing my first beer after it gets warm and going to bed after that

thats fucking genius, holy shit

Ive just been jacking off to my imagination to fight the porn urges. It seems to be working pretty good and the fact that i dont need any stimuli is good. Now i just need to limit myself to jacking off no more than once a week and ill be good.

How did society get guys to feel this way? It's fucking ridiculous that so many dudes have fallen for the "Vidya/ internet is bad for guys" meme
Worse than the autism bullshit that went around

unironically switched out roids for my other addictions
working pretty well so far but im sure it will end badly just as every other drug abuse story does

How the fuck do you fat assholes get an alcohol addiction and stay fat? That's not an addiction

how did you gain awareness of how stupid you have become?

josh pls go

Smoking and phone. Every other week I binge drink

I find my libido crashes after porn as well, like a withdrawal period where I still get morning wood but there's no underlying desire to nut for a few days to a week, which is super helpful for curbing potential new habits. I fap once a day on average, and don't really feel like I need to stop or reduce that drastically (it's a bit lower than when I was using porn) because I still feel interested in women and all that jazz

If it negatively impacts your life, it's a problem. One of my old high school friends is playibg videogames for 12+ hours a day and has no future prospects, as much as the gaming is a symptom of other issues more than the root cause, he can't go without and I sometimes have to sit in his room and chat to him while he plays because he won't stop