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24 Feb 2012, 3:21 am

A lot of people quit stuff by tapering off and reducing use over time.

Kratom is actually used quite often by people quitting things like heroin, and successfully too.

As long as you use something as a step down then I don't see why you automatically need to think of it as just a replacement. Ultimately you're still the one who has to keep reducing use of whatever you're using, instead of just maintaining it at a constant rate.

Either way I didn't mean to flare up your desire to just get wasted. Not really what I was going for.



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27 Feb 2012, 2:44 am

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-life-less ... g-smoking/


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27 Feb 2012, 10:19 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-life-lessons-you-only-learn-through-quitting-smoking/


Very intresting, now if only there was an article about why to quit, and what alternatives are available. I mean I've reduced myself to roll my own which has reduced my smoking but it seems that's the most cutting down I can do.


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29 Feb 2012, 3:53 am

Alcohol and Tobacco are my getaway drugs, I love them so much.


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04 Mar 2012, 11:09 am

To go another day without a cigarette or not...hmm don't know, I guess I'll find out if I can handle it or not.


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05 Mar 2012, 1:55 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-life-lessons-you-only-learn-through-quitting-smoking/


Very intresting, now if only there was an article about why to quit, and what alternatives are available. I mean I've reduced myself to roll my own which has reduced my smoking but it seems that's the most cutting down I can do.


That's not how cracked.com works.


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05 Mar 2012, 10:27 am

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-life-lessons-you-only-learn-through-quitting-smoking/


Very intresting, now if only there was an article about why to quit, and what alternatives are available. I mean I've reduced myself to roll my own which has reduced my smoking but it seems that's the most cutting down I can do.


That's not how cracked.com works.


I guess not.


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05 Mar 2012, 4:15 pm

Seriously I hate cigarettes, trying to quit really sucks......especially when I am trying to keep mental illness symptoms under control. FML!


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13 Mar 2012, 6:22 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-life-lessons-you-only-learn-through-quitting-smoking/


Very intresting, now if only there was an article about why to quit, and what alternatives are available. I mean I've reduced myself to roll my own which has reduced my smoking but it seems that's the most cutting down I can do.


www.nucig.co.uk



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25 Mar 2012, 7:46 pm

Huh... I'm researching e-cigs right now. I am a pack a day smoker and am out. I'm all twitchy and feel like my skin is crawling. I keep pacing back and forth... resisting the urge to head to the store for one more pack.


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26 Mar 2012, 6:54 pm

I caved. :(


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01 Apr 2012, 6:47 am

I should probably start watchin g this fred


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13 Apr 2012, 1:22 pm

screw it, I'm not going to stop smoking coffin nails.......I'll try and keep it down to 5 or less per day though.


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18 Apr 2012, 4:19 pm

Trying my hardest right now to give up smoking weed. been smoking pretty much every day for the last 2 years, with the odd break in between (longest has been 2 months). So far Im 5 days since my last joint but life without it seems sooo damn boring right now. Im trying to keep myself occupied with exercise and spending time with family but Im so tempted. I know that all it would take is a phonecall and a 5 minute drive and I could have another bag in my hands.

I just wish I could be creative with my photography and music without the stuff. I know if I smoke again though that it will just lead to me shying away from everyone and not wanting to be around even my family. I know ive changed since I started toking up, I just want to go back to how I was before I started but Im not even sure if thats possible anymore.

The thing that scares me most though is that a few members of my family suffer from schizophrenia, and in the case of my cousins (identical twins) cannabis is the thing that brought the illness out in them. I dont want that to happen to me, I just wish I didnt enjoy smoking as much as i do.


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26 Apr 2012, 5:59 am

As far as I can tell, addiction is not a disease, it is a behavioral problem that is often comorbid with other mental illnesses, such as asperger, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, etc.

There is no cure for addiction currently. You can try AA if you like but be careful of the crazies. The 12-steps are nonsense but as Aspies I'm sure everybody here already realizes that.

I wish I had a cure, but I do not. You have to want to change and you have to choose to change. Every time you drink or do drugs, you are making a deliberated, calculated choice (unless you are completely out of touch with reality)