Trigger warning: specific drugs being mentioned because I know this timeline depends somewhat on the specific substance.
Hey yall, so I’m very close to being 4 months sober from cocaine now and any other drugs with the exception of weed and alcohol which I have less time under my belt for, although I also quit those too a while ago and I was a pretty casual user of weed/alcohol to begin with.
Do the cravings for my drug of choice, specifically cocaine ever disappear? If so, how long did it take for your cravings to disappear?
I used to be a rather heavy user of coke, only ever insufflated it as my route of administration. At some points, I was a steady user doing it daily, at other times I was using it 2-3 times a week, going through 1.5-6 grams when using per day for reference.
I am hoping these cravings disappear eventually or at least become much weaker and less frequent! I still experience thoughts and cravings about it every day honestly or almost every day for sure. They aren’t nearly as strong as they once were, like they are no longer mind controlling to me and they don’t make my heart race or feel anxiety anymore, but they are still like an annoying fly buzzing around my head where I have to spend significant time playing the tape forward and fighting it whenever I’m not occupied in that moment.
I have learned to accept the cravings and that they might never disappear, but I’d like to know if anyone’s cravings ever went away completely and how long it took. Thanks!
Yes, the further you get away from it, the less the cravings are.
And the more you take your life back. The less attractive it is.
I still won’t be around it. Its not worth the risk. If i know someone uses. I won’t have anything to do with that person. Cocaine never brought anyone good for me in my life.
Ty man, how long have you been sober from it? Did you find the cravings ever went away?
Yeah true, at the end of the day, I don’t wanna become homeless and lose everything so I will do everything in my power to continue being sober. It just feels frustrating to me that I still get these cravings where I need to fight them and such on a daily basis, but anything is better than going back to that hell hole life.
My life has been actually going much better without substances, but I almost don’t really “feel” how far I’ve come still. It’s like my dopamine is still somewhat fried or something idk
Its been about eight years since i did any coke. I had been clean from it for a long time.
I had almost ten years clean and sober when I decided to try drinking again.. no drugs were a rules in that decision. I made it another 7 or 8 years and coke crossed my path while I was drunk.
I didn’t even hesitate, and I was off and running.
Its was harder to quit the 2nd time. Everything was.
If I was looking at it I would crave it. I won’t let that happen today. I rarely think about it and I won’t allow any fantasies. That shit got me in a lot of trouble back in the day
Ty man, this actually helps me a lot. Hopefully one day my thoughts and cravings around this substance become more rare and weaker. I guess it just takes time
If you were still having fun and not experiencing any problems you wouldn’t be here.
When you get a craving shut it down by remembering the worst experiences.
The health risks, the fact that it could be cut with a fatal dose of fentanyl. The risk scoring it. Scoring sometime put me in scary situations. And how often I got burnt. And when my coke dealer was out I tried meth. And that was a whole new can of worms.
The beginning was fun. But it was a lie. I kept chasing the beginning. But it wasn’t there anymore.
Yeah 100%! Thanks for helping me work through my cravings yesterday I find the advice about shutting down cravings via remembering my worst memory on coke actually pretty helpful!
Im feeling much better today! No cravings so far, especially since my girlfriend is over here right now
And yeah about the risk of fentanyl, definitely it can be pretty scary. I once encountered fentanyl in cocaine when I first started. Only reason why Im not dead is because I had a gut feeling to test it for fentanyl via a test strip and I had a nalaxone kit. The dealer back then was like not even shook by it. He like didn’t care and was like “yeah I believe it” he is a complete scumbag of a person tbh.
The fentanyl thing is terrifying. That’s a close call. All dealers are scum.
Think about all the scum that it passes through getting here. Not one person who profits from it cares about humanity.
My cocaine addiction got me introduced to the swat team.
They hung out and arrested everyone who came to the door. By the end of the night there was around 20 of us in a big van. I remember as if it was yesterday, looking at all my “friends” and thinking how everyone of them were the scum of the earth.
for myself i was so beat down that once i got clean i just never had the desire to do my DOC again (meth/heroin)
i will admit though that some days, when my back pain is really bad, i do wish i had a couple pain pills to help me through. but it’s not worth the kick anymore, tired of being dopesick. did that for several years, and when i remember what that’s like, i just usually come to the conclusion that the pain is there and accept it and move on.
i don’t want to poison my body anymore, anyway with that stuff. i love myself now, and it’s not loving to put meth and heroin into my veins, ya know?
I find the advice about shutting down cravings via remembering my worst memory on coke actually pretty helpful!