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Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
I have
been clean since my little relapse before.
Today I am fiending bad and so I am taking deep breaths and
trying to relax.
I also quit smoking cigarettes this week so I'm finding it hard
to calm down.
I know I will not use today because my desire to stay clean is
stronger but
does anybody have helpful tips on ways to get through the
cravings? |
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| Loraura |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Get
up, go get a glass of water, drink the entire glass, and think
of something else. Purposely change your thought.
If nothing else, your body will get the water it needs! |
Tender
hearts
KS |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
The
best deterrent for me to cravings over the years is to pick up
the phone and call someone else in recovery. The craving has
always passed by the time I get off the phone |
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Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
I did drink a lot of coffee and it's made me very anxious.
One of my problems is the music I love to listen to is rap and
it seems like
every song is about dope and it triggers me in an instant so for
now I'm sitting in silence. The sad thing is the only
thing that is helping my cravings is thinking about drinking.
I'm going to my husband's work party soon and I'm so excited
about the open bar. I know that is so pathetic but for me when I
drink I don't
think about dope at all. I'm relaxed and carefree.
The only problem I have with that is once I start drinking I
find it hard to stop
so my husband is putting me on a 3 drink maximum and if I sneak
more somehow he says he's leaving me there. |
nine
years
clean |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Here's my take on this:
1. Step away from the alcohol. You have a disease called
addiction. You are an addict. The alcohol will only lower your
inhibitions and increase your desire to use and to smoke, or to
drink more than your quota.
2. Personally, you are braver than I to quit meth AND smoking at
the same time. Don't know if I would have made it this far if I
had tried to do that.
3. Sitting in silence is a bad idea. Get to a meeting; call
someone who is in recovery; do something that requires physical
activity.
That's all I can think of right now. |
forget
suzette |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
The
best thing you can do is hang with you own people...
.....you need someone who UNDERSTANDS what you are going thru.
writing it down.......diaries...venting, talking...helps.
whether you get support here, my board, sfj's board, or crystal
recovery...
.....the support you need comes from people like us that went
thru it.
Have you tried NA? it's cheaper than a movie, and the
coffee is free.
you can be with other addicts......what helps me, is helping
you.
I come here....and home American Metholgy is like the speed freaks veterans
club......we will distract, and shock you..or listen and reply.
this board and mine, are excellent ways to get positive
reinforcement. |
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Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Meth is not my enemy the disease of addiction inside my head is
and I need
to get a grip and keep going on the recovery path NOT the
destructive path.
I realize now that even though I have been clean I have not
really been
working my recovery because I'm abusing myself in other ways
now.
I consumed a container of instant coffee in a week.
I was chain smoking cigarettes until I quit.
I was starving myself and popping caffeine pills in excess
instead.
Last weekend I drank vodka until I passed out.
I went on a gambling spree for 3 days and left with some money
but lost a lot of what I won because I couldn't stop.
I need help because I can't stop overdoing it in one way or the
other. I don't want to be out of control. I need to find my way
out for my sanity. |
nine
years
clean |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Quote:
I need help because I can't stop
overdoing it in one way or the other.
You are me; I am you.
I could NEVER do anything halfway. Ever. One extreme or the
other, that was me. I learned a lot of what I needed to
learn about myself in the rooms of NA, through the step work,
and guided by words of wisdom from those who had found their way
out of that kind of destructive behavior.
I learned that I could not drink alcohol and stay meth free, NOT
because I was told that, but because I learned it firsthand on
my own. At about 30 or 60 days clean I decided that I wasn't
using meth, but I could still have a beer or a shot of Jack if I
wanted. So I did.
The very first time I tried that, within an hour I was looking
everywhere for the dope man. Luckily, I left Dodge to get clean,
and I was 17 hours driving time away from anyone I ever bought
meth from. I didn't know a soul in this town, EXCEPT the people
I met in NA.
I gave up trying to score, went to bed, and when I woke up the
next morning I knew that if I wanted to stay off meth then I
would also have to stay off alcohol. Period.
I wasn't happy about it, that's for sure.
But it's what I had to do. It was a huge step; almost as big a
step as deciding to stop using meth.
I am confident that had I not taken that HUGE step, however, I
would not have the clean time I now have. No doubt about it.
Close your eyes and take the plunge. We do not have to live life
on the edge; we do not have to take everything to extremes;
there really is a middle ground where we can learn to live, and
even be content.
I promise. |
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Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
I've
been through NA months ago. I tried to stick with it but by the
end of the
meetings I would want to cry because I was so frustrated. The
people were
not welcoming. They did not like new comers. I kept asking about
finding a
sponsor and I felt like the moderator kept putting me off by
saying just wait
until the right time. I needed one desperately and when I
finally got one she
never returned my calls. I bought the NA book and "Just for
Today" to try to
do it by myself at home but I just can't get into all the step
work.
I believe in god but the program just does not work for me. I'm
not putting it
down or making excuses. I did really benefit from my
chemical dependency rehab and I'm thinking more and more
that I should probably go back. They had group therapy and
interesting lectures about addiction. It was the key that
started me off to sobriety before back in July and the tools I
learned there plus the support from KCI, Allnightlong's
Methrecovery Chatroom, and Suzie's
American Methology that kept me clean for about 4 1/2 months.
I know I can't do it alone because I'm only making it worse for
my recovery
the way I'm going now. |
| guestwho |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Don't be down on yourself Natalie. Why don't you check out
rational recovery? I am going to look into it myself a little
bit later and read what it entails. You will find an option that
works for you. Until then, stay completely clean ( that is
advised.)
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| imlostinky |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Then
head back to rehab Natalie. Without recovery, everything
is shyt.
Your recovery has got to come first. All you do with
alcohol is substitute- it isn't going to satisfy your want.
All it will do is bring on the beast 10 times harder.
Quick fixes don't fix- they mask. Everything that is there
is still there. |
| deeeCA |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
natalie-
you know i love ya girl - try and yahoo me when you're on. try
NA again and see if people are more welcoming, if you're not
into that i understand.
join here - i think you would really like it Smart Recovery I like these people a lot - they have voice
meetings online too which is fantastic and also meetings around
the bay area and up where you are.
And also... are you really sure that you want to focus on
quitting smoking as well right now? I know for me personally
that deciding to quit drinking, drugs, booze and cigarettes
while going on a health food diet didn't really set me up for
success.
Right now since I've been off drugs for a long time, drinking is
my primary focus. Or staying off the booze. I smoke reds
now though and A LOT o them - more than before. But one thing at
a time... |
mystical
women69 |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Hey
HotMama, something that helped me is keeping myself busy. Also
start taking walk's. I do not have a car. So i ride the bus and
walk everywhere. I also started taking a women's multi-vitamin.
I also started drinking a lot more water. At least 4 to 5
bottles a day. I cut out almost all caffeine. I have maybe 1 or
2 soda's a week now. It made me really feel better about myself.
It made me not want to use. I still have craving's and i have
been clean a year. But it did help a lot. I remember how i felt
when i used. But when i have craving's. I just think about
something else. I hope that it help's. |
| TerryCa |
Re: Need helpful Tips to stop meth cravings
Eyes
Just wanna say I'm behind ya all the way. I'll help hold you up
if you need it. You can bytch to me, cry, laugh, just be you.
I'm hoping you can be stronger this time around. The stakes get
a little higher if you relapse. |
| pisces |
Re: Need helpful Tips to
stop meth cravings
i find my cravings are lessened
by exercise... you should try it! just walking briskly for 20
minutes can help |
