withdrawels.how do u get over drug withdrawels?

Question

I quit doing every kind of drug including weed 3 months ago.the only thing I do now is smoke cigerettes.how are you not supposed to think about drugs or anything that is addictive when you have nothing else to do.I jus wanna know.Its hard.

Answer 1

You are on a roll! So, keep winning in the survival decisions you've already made! Get onto a B Complex (helps with handling after effects of withdrawal) and if it also contains some C vitamin all the better. Ensure that the B group vits contain ALL the B's and in at least 50mg dosage per capsule/tablet.
RE getting active; search your thoughts and find what it is that you really enjoy activity-wise, and go and do that; or another really positive thing would be to help others; like on volunteer basis (takes your attention off your probs, and gives satisfaction of aiding others) very therapeutic! Good luck with your efforts!

Answer 2

Congrats on the 3 months!!!!!

Getting thru the beginning weeks was the toughest part. As your body gets used to the new you, it'll get easier everyday.

I can tell you about the withdrawals from smoking. Your mind tries to play tricks on you and says "just this one, then you can quit again". But it doesn't tell you about the disappointment you'll get within yourself if you do that.

As each day goes by and you get thru it without the drugs, consider it a triumph over an enemy (like you just punched his lights out or something) and say to yourself "AHA, I won!!!" Make it a game of sorts... Do anything you can to win the battle.

Don't let the thoughts creep in that you need to have the drug. Keep your mind occupied with .... and this is very important... something/someone that had absolutlely nothing to do with your drug use. Cut off the triggers that would eventually have you smoking weed.

A phrase that kept me trudging along when I quit smoking - Hours turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, years turn into decades ... I haven't smoked in 20 yrs.

Answer 3

It just takes time If you want to quit smoking you should get the patch and then make sure you have a lot to do all day every day so you keep yourself too busy to feel the cravings. Also avoid situations and places that make you want to do drugs. Like your friends if you would usually do drugs with your friends get new friends that don't do that or just stop hanging out with them until you get your cravings under control.

Answer 4

i tried to quit smoking a while ago and i found that running... well any type of exercise is helpfull. Not only does it distract you but it helps get it out of your system. Just stay bussy! Stay around people u cant do drugs around... just dont do it! I know its hard but u will feel much better.

Answer 5

find a hobby, like going to the gym, something that gets your mind off things. being around people that also don't do drugs is the best.

Answer 6

If no one has told you yet...Congrats...for putting the crutches behind you and daring to face the world as it is...without the haze of drugs/alcohol to filter life through..Yeah!

Getting clean is not the hard part as you are finding out. Staying clean is. The problem that most people face when they get clean is that there is a ritual of getting high. When you got high...there were things you did...like hangout with your friends and tank up before you went into the movie house or concert...or if you got paid on Friday there were certain people you were sure to meet up with or paraphernalia you bought to use the drugs in and setting it up and all that. There is a ritual that is part of getting high.
Staying clean is very hard in the beginning because you have stopped the drugs but the pull to have some kind of ritual still remains. Building new rituals that go along with staying clean are used to replace the old rituals. This is called replacement behaviour. You are replacing the old with the new.
In the beginning beginning rituals can be as simple as knowing that Greg and Dave will be at the Drive-in or work at the movie house on friday night after you get paid so you know where not to go. It is a good idea to write down a list of all the things you used to do after you got paid and avoid those places.
Part of building the ritualof staying clean is staying away from people you got high with...Places you got high in...and things you used in order to get high.
There are people who cannot walk into a bar once they have gotten clean without getting drunk. Some cannot use torches or high powered lighters because they 'triggered ' the old urge to get high. Some of us got turned on my a certain girl or always got high with one girl. You may have to avoid her especially if she is around or has access to the things you used to get high. And if she is in a place where you used to get high you know to leave and leave quickly. List all your people,places and things...and avoid them like the plague. Remember, trying to explain to them why you need todo this brings you one step closer to getting high again every second you stay and try to explain so they won't hate you or think you are a wuss.
That is the first part of building a ritual...by learning to say no when you are offered without having to explain... and staying away frompeople, places and things you used to get high.
The second thing is learning replace those voids...like the one you are feeling now...with new rituals. If you feel triggered when you get paid... ask one of your sober friends...to meet you at the bank or the check cashing place...If you always went to the drive in on Friday nights...stay home and rent a DVD or go to the movies in the next town over...or ask your guidance counselor what activities you can learn now that you have decided to enjoylife to the fullest. A new hobby...reawakening your love for reading...surfing the web for new forums and new chat rooms...these are all ingredients in rebuilding the foundation of learning to hangout now that you are clean.
This is my sixteenth year clean and I had to learn how to dance all over again...how to go to a party without smelling every cup of soda I picked up cause I just knew that no one has so much fun unless they are tanked. Took me along time to believe that there really was a life after getting high. But I stuck around with people who did not drink or drug...I did not try to save anyone once I got clean...that's the surest way to return to getting high that I know.
I cannot save anyone...
I have no buisness being in a bar so I don't go. I don't buy beer for anyone as a favour so I never touch bottles of beer or liquor. I don't hangout with people who get high...those days are over...and it does not matter how much I like them.
As I learn how to say no to the call of the drink...and no to peer pressure...and no to hanging out with the old crew just for old times sake...and start going different places and being with different people...I slowly begin to build different behaviours...a new ritual that goes with staying clean.
It is not easy. You may loose some friends...maybe even a real good friend. That unfortuantely is part of the package that goes along with staying clean.
That old saying "Idlehands is the devil's workshop" is absolutely true. The more idle time you have to yourself...the greater the chance of you doing something really stupid. And believe me...there are things far worse than the loss of a good friend...or getting drunk again. You just don'tneed to think about these things fromthe inside of a jail cell. And if you are busy rebuilding your life...and replacing the ritualof getting high with positicve things and places and people...you will have little time to sit and brood about how bored you are. The reins that control your life are right in your hands. Put the blinders on oldNelly and tell that horse to giddyap!