how can i stop doing coke and drinkin?

Question

if your gonna answer go to a rehab center i already tried 3 i tried to quit one time but i could only make it for 2 months i function well at my job and everything i drink by myself and i feel i am never going to be happy. male 24

Answer 1

i know you already went to rehab, but try a treatment center again, after the initial portion, join a support group and attend you meetings regularly. Also maybe talk to your doc, if you feel that your never going to be happy, maybe you have a underlying problem affecting your desire to do coke and drink. stay positive and kep trying

Answer 2

You already know you have an addiction problem and are probably an alcoholic. Be happy you know this at a young age and aren't waiting until you are 50 if you live that long.

Trying isn't good enough. You need to stop with the rehab centers and commit your self to a one step program like AA and NA, and probably both.

You need to cut off all your friends who drink and do drugs. You need to surround yourself with sober and recovered people who want to you succeed.

You need to not get involved with anyone ever without telling them honestly that you are a drug addict and alcoholic and allow them the chance to decide if they want to be in your life.

No one but no one can control this but you. You are the only person who can quit and if it has to be second by second, and you can stay sober and clean, then it has to be.

When you get sober and clean, you can worry about the why. Don't concern yourself with that now, just realize that you have a problem that you must seek help for and go and do it.

If you fail, then just simply do it again. What exactly do you have to lose? Eventually if you don't do anything, you will lose everything including your life. So if you fail, then just do it again until you get it right.

Remember you are worth saving.

Answer 3

The problem is that it's gonna get worse instead of better. Soon you won't function well at work or a drug test will get you fired or you will get picked up by the cops and jail time will get you fired. Then you get even more depressed and do more crack and booze and end up stealing and sucking dorks to pay for your addiction. Oh yea, it'll happen, you'll do anything for more. Soon you won't even sleep, that's just wasted time you could be using to get high. You need people to help you but you may have already burned those bridges. I have had many friends start on coke and then crack and end up loosing everything, jobs, homes, wife and familys. You have to want your life more than you want the drugs. Most people who do coke/crack etc, never quit, they just die. You have to decide that you don't want to die.

Answer 4

Rehab only works on those who want it to work more than they want to do drugs and alcohol. I suggest you try rehab again for at least 6 weeks, then move to another part of the country away from your "friends". People get out and think they can run with the same crowd as before...you will relapse within 2 weeks. Find a job and work your butt off so you won't have time for drugs and alcohol.

Answer 5

You never will be happy if you keep hurting yourself with these things.Before you do anything you need to start LOVING yourself.YOU are a part of this world.YOU belong here and YOU'RE here for a reason.Everyone says you need to hit bottom first ,but I believe that if you truly LOVE YOURSELF ,you'll stop hurting yourself.Try to figure out WHY you started doing drugs and drinkin.It is what you need to know first.There is always a reason.It's either parents or lovers or life that makes you start,figure out why to help you STOP.You ARE valuable to this world,everyone has something to give and I'm telling you that the WORLD needs what you have to give.Be who your supposed to be,not this blurry copy of you.God Bless You,and good luck.

Answer 6

if you REALLY want to give up those things, the very first thing is to DECIDE to get control and be responsible for your own life. noone, no rehab center or any one individual , can do that for you. you and only you can make that happen. once you do that, you need to come up with a plan and develop the discipline to carry it out.

Answer 7

You need positive support around you 24/7 so at that split second when u freak out and want to do drugs they can pull you through it. Its a painful journey but when its over,,,then its all over. Don't give up, don't let mere white powder control your entire life.

Answer 8

If you're not totally adverse to it, start going to church.

The reason I say this is not merely to act as some holy-roller response that God will help you, but because there are truly beneficial, PRACTICAL things that come out of going to church that really help, on top of the spiritual and emotional benefits.

For example, a major benefit of going to Church is coming in contact with people who can help you with your problem. Christians (although it may not seem like it from Fox News and Pat Robertson and that crazy guy with the sign on the corner) are duty-bound to be empathetic. They are especially so if they see that you truly are in need of help and are eager to seek God. They're easy that way.
And the kind of help I'm talking about is just being there, and showing you the kind of love you deserve from humanity, despite whatever selfish ideologies have barred us from each other.
And that kind of human, social love can be a major factor in changing the world for you.
Addiction orients a man inward. It does not make him the center of the world, but instead makes himself the whole world, and his addiction the center of it. "Love" (excuse the cheesiness of the language) turns a man outward, focussing them on something outside of oneself, inserting them back out into the world around.
Fellowship allows us to participate in that. And especially this aspect of fellowship is the easiest for anyone to participate in. Go to church. Meet people. Populate your world with stuff to think about and care about outside of your own personal needs. Then, get in the habit of it. Get addicted to being a part of the world outside, caring about it, caring about the people in it. and when your own personal pseudo-happiness isn't your main focus, you'll be -- SURPRISE! -- genuinely happy.

A watched pot does not boil, and neither does a watched heart ever bloom.

There are countless other benefits to going to Church, too. Eve if you are not a Christian, there are many churches that are open to people of all or no faiths. Find an ambassadorial church. Be open.

And if you find God there, in whatever form, I swear to you you will be changed.

Pascal, I think it was, once said that every person has a God-shaped hole in their heart. and no matter what they try to fill that hole with, be it food, or drink, or sex, or drugs... only the one true thing can actually do it.

Start with the glimpses of God you see in other people. Get to glimpses of God you see in the world, let it spark glimpses of God in yourself.... until finally you see God filling that hole.

Bless you, and may you find the piece you're looking for.

Answer 9

You will only quit when you truly WANT to.
You havnt hit rock bottom yet by the sounds of it. Usually once ya hit that,it's a wee bit easier to want to quit.
Good Luck.

Answer 10

just stop doing it. keep it away from you. dont think about it. dont have it in ur house. etc. i kno it isnt easy but try it.. i guess? and go to a rehab center. it'll have to be ur 4th time going to it but u have to stay there !! and also try doing activities like sports or running etc. its fun and it'll keep ur mind off of it. heh. also try praying [if ur religious] or get a girlfriend. ur mind will totally shift places from you to ur girlfriend, most likely!