How did you finally decide to quit??

[Spike2654]

ugh, as I sit here trying to get through my first 24 or so hours, knowing the worst is yet to come. I'm trying everything to think of why this is a good thing when my body and mind (GAWD, IT WON'T SHUT UP!!) tells me that I'm such a better person when I'm on my pain pills. Just was curious what your source/determination to finally be done was...

[kyle505]

Your head is telling you lies. You know that so don't listen, or at least understand that they are lies meant to push you to relapse.
My decision wasn't as dramatic as most. My shame became overwhelming. One morning I couldn't look at myself in the bathroom mirror anymore. The years had caught up with me. Simple but monumental. It was cold turkey soon afterwards.
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[katmandu516]

Left my husband, took a one way trip to Texas, to meet a friend I met on FB, until I finally sobered up enough to realize I wasn't where I was supposed to be. I called my husband and he flew down and got me. It was so scary, being in a strangers house, getting high as a kite, that I don't even remember most of it.  I nearly died. Being close to death and far from home will sober you up real fast!!!

[petsrule]

Love this topic cause it reminds me of why.  ditto to so many situations above and got tired, tired and tired of depending on a drug to live.  Well, what I thought was a life....

[takingmylifeback2014]

Hi Lovie - I was told to NEVER say ONLY on this site lol 23 Days is HUGE for us!!!! :-)

[nonights]

I quit cause we had s plumer at work and someone turned the water faucet on while water was off and didn't turn it back off and water flooded and I didn't know if it was me I didn't remember if I had even tell you where I was. Scared me to death. That's when enough was enough. Hang tough this will pass

[ariley13]

I quit drinking, my true drug of choice, because I was killing myself, literally. I also had recently lost my father to alcoholism and decided I wasn't going to end up like that. When I quit the opiates, it was more an issue of dependence vs addiction, but it could have gotten out of control easily, because I am an addict. I quit because I was out on the road with my truck driver bf and our truck broke down 2,000 miles from home. I missed my doctor's appt and was forced to go through detox. I suppose if I wanted to I could have found some opiates somewhere, but I didn't. I can tell you from my years of active alcoholism and many attempts to quit, that it finally came down to life and death for me. I couldn't stand myself, or what I had become. That outweighed the long, nasty detox process and I finally made it through and stayed sober. Thank God!