alcohol/pot addictions (maybe) - Addiction & Recovery Message Board

sad song · 05-19-2006, 09:32 AM

I have an extremely addictive personality, be it drugs, alcohol, food, computer, people, whatever...I get obsessed with something and it's hard for me to let it go. I used to take heavy drugs and have quit because I lost one of my best friends in November to an overdose. These days I'm just drinking and smoking pot like most everyone else I know, but if I have pot I can't save it, I smoke an exorbitant amount when I have it, same with alcohol. My question is, thinking along these lines, what are good things to do to replace these urges? I don't know many people well where I'm living now so going out is hard because I get very quiet and worry that I'm boring people so I always end up drinking or smoking. I like to read and listen to music but that just doesn't cut it. What things do you do when you're coming off a drug to replace the times when you would be getting high?

kim4074 · 05-19-2006, 09:55 AM

Keep your mind bz. Stop hanging around people who might sway you to use. I have used alcohol to become social. Doesnt work for me I just become an as!. There are some thing after alot of research that might help you stop the pot. Its on the first page has some things that have helped others stop smoking. I know what its like to have it and use it. I'm not like that with pot but with pain pills when I used if I had them I had to take them all! Its almost like a compulsive act. Keep researching and keep trying to stop. I'm sure a perfectly good and nice person sober we hide behind drugs. I just finished reading the book "Smashed" wow that hit home a couple of times. Good luck and you can do it, its hard but you will be just fine. Kim

kim4074 · 05-19-2006, 12:53 PM

I posted some remidies that worked for some people I know on the thread "daughter coming off pot". That might help you some but everyone is different. What works for one might not work for the other. You will be irritable, cranky, just ****ed at the world and everything will upset you but that is normal while your brain is trying to fix itself. It will pass. You just REALLY have to put your mind to it and do it! It can be done I know alot of chronic smokers who have quit and survived it. Good luck you can beat this!!! Kim