IMO you have to think about the positives that the addiction bring you. Porn/drugs/drinking etc can bring some pleasure.

Then you realize, that other things can also bring that same pleasure??

So you replace the bad things with good things? At least it worked that way for me when I fought off some demons.

Anyone else have experience with cleaning up life?

i did rehab from 01-02 for crystal meth addiction

i've had a few slips since than. i'm currently going to therapy to battle the demons that led me down that path.

yes, i'm doing that right now. After a major depression i decided not to take any more stuff. It was always great fun, but the days afterwards were terrible. The hard thng is that everything seems so boring now. I think about it a lot to take something and i can't go out or have sex without taking something. Just fogussing on work, friends and the gym....hope it makes life better.
Hope it will work out for you.

put it bhnd you n move on .. aint that hard once u commit.

It's a challenge having to fight demons and moderating or abolishing certain past addictions that range from one end of the spectrum to the other. I have relapsed on one or 2 things overtime but nothing worth losing control over and going back to it reassured me why I didn't need it to begin with. Sometimes it seems there is always some battle going on within that needs to be dealt with and put to rest. I cope in various ways. I'm a natural therapist and run my own business and also work part time with the airlines so that is a major distraction and a positive one. In my own time I also use tools like meditation, bikram yoga, cardio exercise and surrounding myself with positivity which is so calming for my mind, body and soul.

just wanna give my support out to all the recovering orgers

my entire family are addicts and i seem to be the only one who got lucky

music is my main drug and prince has been my number one pusherman for a while

guess you could say women, coffee and chocolate could be my other drugs

everything in moderation i guess

I quit smoking about four years back. Occasionally, I feel the itch, but I cope by reminding myself of all the negatives and how much control it had over my life. I remind myself that I am much, much stronger than that shit.

I smoked cigarettes for a few years, and I quit with zero complications and I haven't smoked in over 9 years. I don't think that I was really addicted because of a number of reasons: I quit so easily with very few desires to return; when I did smoke, it was only about 6 a day unless I was at a party; plus, I would go days not smoking if I was with my girlfriend at the time who did not care for smoking and it did not bother me.

I have had many members of my family suffer with alcoholism. Many of them have quit, and they have used different methods, Most of them initially used rehab to stop, but many of them needed no outside support after rehab. One person hasn't drank in 5 years, but he still goes to meetings 3 times per week.

It is weird at family get-togethers now because when I was a kid, everyone drank like it was going out of style. Now, only a few people do. Initially, I felt weird drinking at events, but I realized that I shouldn't worry because I have never had a drinking problem.

I think people worry too much about their addictions. Life's too short.

I think it's just as unhealthy to make abstinence from an addiction your whole reason for being. The abstinence becomes an addiction itself.

Have a beer! Go on a shopping spree! Gamble on a horse! Sleep with a stranger! Have a ciggy! Eat that cream cake!

japanrocks said:

and weaves!

You just have to be strong. It's impossible if you half commit to quitting something. You have to fully commit, but then once that line is drawn (and not in pencil) it is not that hard. You just know you're not to do that any more.

It sucks to have to limit yourself. It's a loss of freedom, but remember there are countless things that you would never think to do. Consider this vice to be one of them, and be glad as you watch your life improve.

Announce it on a t-shirt.

Cinnie said:

realm said:

Never!

Cinnie said:

Is that a lazy eyed man or woman?