Switching Addictions

[gizzy32]

Although most of us have our DOC even though some don't like that term, many here dabbled with different drugs. When i was in college i did drink too much, but now i don't have any cravings or desire to drink as it still sometimes sets off coke cravings and i hate the drunk buzz. I switched from booze to weed, a few pills along with some other street drugs over the years. Although my addict behaviour had not peaked and at that point I had no idea i was an addict, just always over did my partying and liked to have fun. Then i found cocaine and it grabbed me so fast to where i could not stop, it was impossible without help. I have to admit that after my overdose and i was put on oxy's awhile when my ribs popped, that oxy buzz helped me get through coke cravings  as bad as that sounds. I think if i would have had continued access and the dr would have kept refilling i would have switced addictions to oxy's. I hated them at first, they made me sick, but after a few weeks, i would take one and started to get energy. Although I am a cocaine addict, there have been times i switced addictions to help me quit coke, how sick is that? I wanted to know if some of you here have switched addictions during your drug use or if you still are?

[bobby139]

LOL yes Gizz a guy down the street put to many on and overdosed and ambulance came and got him. dont know what it did to him but remember he was sweating real bad and laying in front yard with all these damn patches on him. lol

[HR_PuffnStuff]

Funny but I only smoked for a week in high school...hated it and never did it again. Smoked weed for a couple months...decided I didn't like it so never did it again. Meth/coke I liked a lot better but if I didn't have any it wasn't the end of the world. I decided to stop doing that before I was 21 (i'm almost 40) and never touched it again even though it was all around me. I thought I just had amazing willpower.....HA! Drank here and there but didn't like the feeling of being too drunk so I have always kept it to a couple beers and that's my limit. Enter opiates. It's the only thing I have let take control over me. I guess I had to try everything else before I found something I liked.  

[refusingbondage]

Gizzy - see I dont think its disgusting at all. in fact, im one of those people who loves the smell of smoke and doesnt care at all about the cigarette haters -imo - unless im sitting in your livingroom, dont tell me not to smoke - go screw  (yes, I have used that line on people on the street who ask me to put my cigarette out)

the only reason i will quit is because i have to for health reasons. i have a very long family history of cigarette related death.

[j34]

Yes I switched addictions to,food,sex,shopping,smoking,exercise.For the drug part yes I switched from drinking to crack.Thank God today I am clean and sober.

[dominosarah]

I have been addicted to just about everything over the years.  When i quit drinking i hit the pills real heavy.........Now my one and only addiction is to cigarettes.

[HelpinUtah]

When I was morbidly obese my addiction was sugar for various reasons.  When I had my gastric bypass surgery, my addiction became exercise and my support group (online).  Then I noticed that many of my friends who had lost the weight and no longer ate the foods they were addicted too became addicted to drugs or alcohol.  It's interesting to me.  It just shows that we all have addictions in some form or another, but it's what we do with them.  I think it's why we come here to support each other to help each other, but we also help ourselves because it keeps all this in our mind that we do have addictive personalities and have to keep ourselves in check!  

But, now my addiction is this place!  LOL!!!  

Hugs,
Janet