You know it's behind you precisely when "I feel I don't get much out of them myself"
Of course it doesn't prevent relapse from ever happening, but this above indicates that you're going "meh" about it, and it's a good thing
The more drugs feel like "yeah... Pointless" the better
Then you have boredom, as the saying goes "smoking is the past-time of bored people"
Shitposting/ online discussion / political activism can help
It's not necesserally the most profitable thing in the world moneywise... That's a problem, eventually
But other than "that", it's a good thing, sort of group therapy without really being one, arguing back and forth keeps you sharp and busy mentally that's already that
I wouldn't relapse since I've never done cocaine, meth, heroin and/or etc alone. Never done any of the hard street drugs alone. I've only smoked weed (which isn't a hard street drug - obviously) and that's just psychologically addicting for the most part to me personally not anything else. I also didn't do it for a long enough time for it to become addicted to that either. I never was much of a smoker myself (haven't used cannabis in 3.5 years or so and before that it was years to as well - it was only for a couple of months then I gave it up again completely and I'm at 3.5 years now myself again like usual).
I quit drinking on my own just fine and that's more or so taking a break, so I wouldn't relapse on that to me personally anyways.
I don't have anything I can "relapse" on right now myself. I'm on my 32nd day without alcohol and I've taken breaks just fine in the past, but this is to make sure it doesn't become a problem at some point. It's a preventive measure and I wouldn't be "relapsing" at that point. I don't want a tolerance and I feel taking a break of six months to a year alone would break any tolerance to the point where I could just have two large beers and be completely fine - not a six pack of beer.
I had "do math not meth" at one point myself or "methematics - addictive math like being a video game designer (easy example) and loving the job (addictive math) - but this got ruined like 5-10 years ago when I found out that it's an actual term on the street. This was to avoid street drugs.
That's due to my love for geometry though and another example would be architecture (video game designer was when I was really young though or younger though) alone.
I am diy-guy2 though and geometry plays into that alone in case I need to build something myself or do it myself and it requires building something which involves geometry alone.
You're still counting days "without" though...
I don't have an alcohol addiction myself, and when I drink, I drink hard it's never just one booz, I don't drink booz anyway mostly whyski or vodka or sake. And it's never just one, I know me. It went to the point it's dangerous (bar fights) so I stopped entirely and I don't miss any of it. I drank for lack of better options and it's not an option now.
That's my story with alcohol. Nothing comparable with yours.
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I have tobacco addiction though, which isn't any better regarding health effect. I certainly don't "lose my mind" with tobacco. But at the same time it's one of the most stupid drug addiction on earth. It just thrash your lungs and gives you cancer ultimately, for no effect other than addiction
Really the most stupid drug on earth, hands down, only downsides
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I still smoke hash for lack of weed time to times and everytime I "relapse" I feel like "meh, what for. Forgot again how pointless that feels/is... Wasted money again..." about it
I need more, I need something more fullfilling than "that", don't have time for this bs anymore basically, it gets in the way of my greater desires basically
So yeah, it's important to have greater desires/goals in life, hobbies, a passion for something certainly helps
I can do numbers like 59x38 (I can do this most of the time) in my head and was teaching myself to do numbers like 382x821 (I could do it at times) then move into 2928x4728 type numbers. It requires a ton of meditation though or clearing your mind and holding all the numbers in your head though. This takes time to build up though to me personally. It takes time to learn how to do and keep your mind in a perfect mode (as close as possible) or perfect method (as close as possible) to be able to do just that.
100x38 = 3800
3800/2 = 1900
9x38 - 380 (x10) - 380-38 = 342
1900+342 = 2,242
All I have to do is remember the date and I know the numbers in my head just fine. That's just 30+2 since November only has 30 days.
Can't say much for your drug side though. It's really not easy to compare, but I did appreciate you sharing that though. That's how I've learned in the past to avoid drugs myself is through others sharing and learning from them.
59 is a cheater number though
since 50 then a 9
50 goes into 100 twice and 9 is basically 10 or you just have to minus 1
09/19/29/39/49/59/69/79/89 - cheater numbers (means it's really easy to do at that point)
but 59 is a very easy cheater number since it goes into 100 twice. - kind of a troll when I don't explain this.
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