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[โ€“] agamemnonymous 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've stopped smoking 3 times

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zoloft and caffeine. Both are very hard, in different ways.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Happy cake day, fellow Lemmy user.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Cigarettes. Went cold turkey every time. 3 time's the charm! It's been 13 years now, but I still occasionally get cravings, and sometimes I dream about having one and then wake up feeling super guilty and horrible about myself even though it wasn't real.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Quit smoking a few years back, that was an absolute bitch to do.

Still get the feeling every now and then, only 'relapsed' once at a funeral.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to be an acidic goblin but now I've limited my caffeine intake to 1 soda per day at lunch (for the boost in energy). Proud of that one. Throwing out the vapes next but thats hard. At least it got me off cigs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I had a teacher who drank so much Coca-Cola and strong tea that his dentist used his mouth in a medical journal

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm down to a soda/caffeine drink at most once a day, down from drinking two or more every day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Smoking. Vaped off of cigarettes and then gradually decreased the nicotine levels until I had vaped 0 nicotine for two months, then stopped vaping.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Biting my cheeks, now I bite my lips. Mmmmmm skin

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Facebook (when that was still a platform young people used). I would obsessively scroll through it for hours each day, basically trying to look at and comment on EVERYTHING. On a whim, I decided to take a break from it for a month. By the time the month was up, I realized I didn't miss it at all, and that was that. One of the big takeaways was that I thought that I was forming relationships with the people I'd comment back and forth with, but in reality these were people who I would never hang out with outside of school and barely even talk with in school (if at all); it was all just superficial, and I was better off spending time talking to my actual friends.

It wasn't that bad, but in high school I mindlessly got into the habit of drinking a few cups of Coke each day (I think it started because I would get a 2 liter whenever I'd order pizza). I quit it pretty much cold turkey, and not only did I stop drinking it at home, I no longer order it at restaurants either, which is something I did ever since I was a little kid. The idea of just buying a bottle of soda and drinking it is straight honestly grosses me out now even though getting a can or bottle from a vending machine was something I'd do without thinking. The one exception is when I'm pigging out at the movies with a bucket of popcorn, but that's pretty rare.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

sweats profusely in ADHD

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You're always an addict, you're just stronger and know yourself better.

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[โ€“] _haha_oh_wow_ 3 points 2 months ago

Nicotine and I guess drinking (the second one is mostly due to getting old though haha).

[โ€“] JadenSmith 3 points 2 months ago

Not long after my mother recovered from chemotherapy, my grandmother passed away. I was tasked with disposing of my mother's morphine, however I decided to take it for relief.

I was addicted not to the feeling of being numb so much, but the initial euphoria. I would snort the morphine in powder form. I know I did some rudimentary conversion, however after kicking it I forgot every single step and cannot remember a lot of that time.
Over a year had passed, yet my knowledge of it is very little. It feels as though I have lost parts of my life... Like I mean, literally lost.

The euphoric kick got less and less prevalent, and I felt as though I needed more in order to gain that initial kick - however I wasn't even aware of this effect happening, despite all manners of media being rife with this step of opiate addictions. The act of increasing dosages came so naturally I don't even think I made a conscious decision to, yet my tolerance rose to points where I was taking multiple times the lethal dose (for someone with base tolerance levels).

I saw what it was doing to me at one point, just by happenstance of looking into the mirror for a moment longer than usual.

I went cold turkey, and it was... Well, hell doesn't even describe how this felt. It took about a couple of weeks, with the first being the worst.
I had locked myself up in my room, telling some folks to check up on me periodically, online friends mainly, and what to do if I don't respond within a given time. I recall a moment where one of my friends was about to call an ambulance, because I was one minute late to answer (I was probably vomiting profusely).

The very last time I did that was in the second or third week of November, 2012.

I understand that going cold turkey could be very dangerous, especially with a built up tolerance, however at that point I would not have been able to wean myself off of the stuff. I was too far in, and without going extremely hard into it I probably would have died not too long after.

If you have a friend going through opiate addiction, please be there for them. That's all I can say.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Recently quit being a man after a couple of conditioned behaviour

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Alcohol, though I swapped it for a THC addiction instead.

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