Has anybody else found in their trials in life that the often recited tropes regarding addition are horse-dung?

[Deaderal Fagent]

Firstly, I am aware that the information I will be divulging is considered among many of the internet natives to be "power levelling", but I am confident that my experiences are not so unique and telling so as to compromise my sacred anonymity.

I have been a rabid user of methanphetamines, alcohol and tobacco for quite a number of years. And it is in this past year that I have made the commitment to purging these artificial needs from my life one by one for a multitude of reasons most would find typical of your average God-fearing American.

After the first month clean from Methanphetamines, I found myself bereft of the impulse to partake. I have now been clean a year and have no desire to return.
For Alcohol, it has been three months and my desire to drink has whittled down to a paltry passing thought that occurs roughly every Friday evening.
Tobacco, I am actively working on. I was smoking 2 packs a day up until about six months ago and while going down to a single pack was easy, I find it harder and harder the lower I go. I am currently successfully self-restricted to only 12 cigarettes a day and will be going down to 11 a day starting this monday.

Now with the context out of the way, I found that quitting these substances has been tremendously easier than the Christians and AA Fanatics purport. They say that every day is Day 1. They say that you are powerless. And lastly they say that once you are addicted, you will always be addicted. These things I do believe are non-sense.

Are there circumstances under which I may partake in these substances again, or in excess, unforeseen by limited awareness of the future? Undoubtably. But I do not think about them anymore except when I check off another month I have been clean. It seems as if these fanatics encourage negative-thinking and powerlessness, even going so far as to create te very concept of a "relapse" to pose as a Devil-like spectre of failure. A "Needle of Damocles" over one's head, to dread and obsess over and over again until you are dead. And while a many will say "You cannot relapse if you don't quit" as a snide remark. I find it a technical truth. I may use the language here to relate, but I do not consider myself "clean" or "having quit". I do not think of myself as a "Junkie" or an "Alcoholic". And while I do not deny the urges, the needs and feelings that comprise "Addiction", I find it a reprehensible lie the idea that you cannot simply stop. All you need to do to stop your addictions from ruining your life, is a nice fat cock to suck on. A hot, young man. Hard-bodied and helpless. Full mast and erect. The moment a single drop of pre-cum drips from his desperately pulsating member onto your ever-waitingt toungue, I promise you, you will be cured. You will gay, but you will be cured.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Good job then, but... 12 cigarettes a day? That's still a lot.

Really? I didn't know that. So you have tried sucking someone off, and that helped you with your addictions? Well done I guess.

I will agree with you in one thing, you can stop simply by doing so, and your will alone.

 

[Moths]

Some people are gentically more prone to addiction than others.

Good luck on your journey quitting nicotine though as I hear thats a difficult one to kick

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

first off, tally ho, my liege! is there a reason youre talking like a duke or is that just a thing you do? relax, its a forum not a fucking letter to the colonies.

second, you are absolutely right about addiction, its a pain in the ass but a lot of it has to do with impulse control and mental soundness. As a recovering addict myself its been quite a ride, it wasnt easy at first, i was addicted to just about everything except opioids, but it took over coming a lot of my mental shortcomings to finally kick those things for good. Nowadays I just drink once a week and smoke, but im curbing those as well.
I dont like the defeatist attitude that surrounds the conversation of addiction either, but you gotta understand that its a mental health issue, in my case and i imagine a lot of others too, it was a way to cope with very serious trauma. now im not gonna ask you to shed a tear for me, but to discount that as simply "people just dont try" is ignorance of the world around you. Take into consideration that a lot of people probably have it a lot worse than you do, and you might realize why that child soldier in africa is still hooked on heroin.

 

[Deaderal Fagent]

you might realize why that child soldier in africa is still hooked on heroin.

Now that is such a waste of resources. They only take a half a decade to replace and require no training. Why not conserve the good stuff for the veterans?

 

[Hweeks]

Addiction is prolonged suicide by pleasure.

 

[parsnip]

I didn't see that ending coming at all

 

[MrSlongDong]

Most people are addicted to feeling sorry for themselves. I agree with you, quitting drugs is just a matter of not taking drugs anymore. Lots of people are just bored, they take drugs because they have nothing better to do. Once they quit they just get bored again so they relapse. Best way to stay clean is to actually do things (as you evocatively described, but other things work as well). For tobacco I recommend buying these disposable vapes, you'll go through two or three a day initially and then you'll get tired of replacing them and you'll just stop. The nicotine craving will decrease over time and it's easier to scale down with vapes than cigarettes. Don't buy a proper thing that you have to refill yourself with the liquid though, that's too much commitment for something you want to stop doing.

first off, tally ho, my liege! is there a reason youre talking like a duke or is that just a thing you do? relax, its a forum not a fucking letter to the colonies.

He speaks proper English, unlike you, anime avatar.

Why not conserve the good stuff for the veterans?

Exactly, especially when they can get high on plastic fumes

 

[dick brain]

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take :^)

 

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>op
>recited tropes regarding addition

horses can do addition. But the question remains, can they do multiplication?

People like to make up that things are harder than they are so they have an out for not working on something themselves. If hardly anybody can do it, then I'm not wrong if I'm in the majority of people who can't. It's just loser talk. Western society is full of it.

 

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Thanks.