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I agree. I've never done heroin but I understand the withdrawal is absolutely horrible. I stopped using nicotine this month. I've been using snus which is a No
by sfn42 1y ago
I agree. I've never done heroin but I understand the withdrawal is absolutely horrible.
I stopped using nicotine this month. I've been using snus which is a Nordic product similar to chewing tobacco. You put it under your upper lip, the type I've been using has significantly more nicotine per dose than a cigarette. Like 2-4 times as much, 25mg per dose.
It was fine. The first day was pretty hard for me, I was sitting next to a lady who kept her snus box on her desk and I really wanted to bum one but didn't. Day two was a bit easier, day three easier still and after that I felt like I was done. I'm on day 16 now and hardly think about it any more.
It's strange because I've been using nicotine for almost two decades and I've been wanting to drop it for most of that time, even did drop it once but blundered and started again a year or so later. I've tried and failed to quit so many times, but the times that it's actually worked have always just felt like a state of mind difference. Like I didn't really want to quit the other times. When I really decide and all doubt is gone it's quite easy to quit. It's just hard to get to that state of mind and keep it.
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoMy experience is that using a method allowing me to gradually lower the amount of nicotine I consume made stopping completely manageable and mostly painless. Cravings come back when I'm under stress but it's fine. I know I will just stop again the same way I did before. It's made the whole thing guilt free for me which strangely makes cravings much more manageable than when I was beating myself trying to not restart.
- sfn42 1y agoYeah that was my plan B, and I kind of did wean myself off using Oliver Twist chewing tobacco for a couple days. It has about 5mg per dose so much less than the snus I'd been using. Used that for 2 days then cold turkey. The plan if I failed was to use nicotine patches of decreasing potency. I think you can get those in a sort of kit but I haven't actually found the kit as a product. Anyway the plan now is to just keep it up. I'll avoid alcohol for a while as it makes it more difficult.
- jjgreen 1y agoI've never done heroin It is delicious, a real delight. I'd happily become an addict if I could get a reliable reasonably-priced pharmaceutical-quality supply; but of course you can't, bloody puritans.
- sfn42 1y agoThey do that in the UK - addicts for whom other options like methadone are ineffective can get heroin prescribed and I think it's free too.