I'm a coke addict.

Best of luck, and keep us posted.

You don't need to hear this cos you were clean for ages and you know this already.

I know how hard it is when ppl around you do it and seem to be able to maintain, but remember that everyone goes home with their private paranoias and crises and you don't want that. Actual quote from when I went skiing (the sport) on Friday from two rich West Van girls we ski with, at lunch, surrounded by tables of families (aghast): A.: "God, I wish there was a way to do lines on the chair, cuz there's always fucking PEOPLE in the gondola." L.: "You know what we need? Those things that bikers have in the backpack, you know that drinking thing...CAMELBAK!!! EXCEPT IT'S A MINI VERSION WITH BLOW IN IT??!? THAT WENT UP YOUR NOSE LIKE AN OXYGEN THINGY??!? HAHA!" A: "OMG THAT'S FUCKING GREAT, HAHA. BUT FUCK THAT, WE NEED IT FOR THE CLUB!!!." L."YEAH THEN MAYBE YOU WOULDNT DROP YOUR PHONE IN THE FUCKING TOILET AGAIN, HAHAHAHAHA!" (HI FIVE)

So, don't let it get you down. and best of luck!!

-You are in charge.
-You can do it.
-Your support group and your sponsor are just one of the tools you have at your disposal. But they're great tools. Use them.
-Get systematic and make a list of all the other ways you can fight the problem. Practice, practice, practice all the alternative means of fighting the urge.
-Don't allow yourself to be in a situation where you'll be tempted. (Okay, you can't avoid all temptation, but you know if you're at a party with people doing drugs, you don't have to be there. Leave immediately. Always)
-It never goes away, so your combatting it can never stop. Every day, do something to fight it, actively, consciously, agressively
-If you slip once, stop as soon as you can.
-Remember that just as the euphoria is false, so is the chemical depression--even though they both seem real at the time.
-Don't let yourself ever do anything rash in the depressed state. Anything rash can still be done next week. Or next month. Or next year. Or never. Often it can't be undone.
-Never give up.

You're apparently not on a bender, or back in your active addiction. I'm sure a lot of the guilt and pain you feel is a revisiting of old hurts and shames, and perhaps it's good to refeel that.

But do no beat yourself up! Nothing, fundamentally, has changed or shifted. Stay in meetings for a while, get a sponsor if you're feeling cravings... but I think you should be okay.

Hey, money's not so hard. All you needs do is become a crack dealer!

... or even easier... start dealing your crack

does this shit fuck anyone else up? i quit last year

soda in general, too. completely. maybe have had one or none since

also sugary drinks are out, with the exception of an occasional orange juice or w/e. a lot of seltzer tho

Mountain Dew is my cocaine. Coke is my marijuana.

yeah but does it have negative effects on u or? like, immediate ones, not weight gain or w/e

There is a lot of caffeine in coke

lol markers your first post made me think "whoa he's actually kind of hardcore, damn" but it just couldn't be of course

i never drink this piss

my body is atemple

xposts hahaha

oh shit this thread *is* about cocaine. my bad

for the record, i am talking about the beverage

it's not good to consume a lot of anything. soda, cocaine, purple stuff

lol

the intense sugar dose is really bad for you, have you been checked for hypoglycemia?

oh shit this thread *is* about cocaine. my bad

― markers, Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:55 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

art of pretend something something something

not sure. maybe?

a lot of shit has been off for me though, including sleep and eating and yada yada life stuff, but it's good i stay away from that shit now

oh shit this thread *is* about cocaine. my bad

― markers, Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:55 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

art of pretend something something something

― lex pretend, Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:04 PM

no

sure

someone remind me not to engage w/ lex in the future

as ILX's expert on being ridiculous I declare that you're the ridiculous one here markers, and that lex has a point. 'coke addict' ffs

why, I too am addicted to carbon-based solid fuel!

oh god i was actually going to respond but i think i won't

200 posts by 3 p.m. EST.

whoever brought up the caffeine thing. man, i had headaches for days last fall. now i don't. but if you go off that shit the headaches suck

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0910/rumble.in.the.jungle/images/ali-foreman-cover.jpg

Related: I am addicted to coca cola

i didn't type that in search, so i don't think it came up? anyway

I quit caffeine this year and had headaches for 3 weeks.

you didn't read, nay even glance, at the writing in the thread you chose? like i said, sure.

keep your stupidity out of my important revives

the benign simpleton façade cracks when it's called out!

the original conversation did get onto the subject of coca cola pretty quickly tbf

the sentences became passive tetchy

How bad is caffeine? I quit soda years ago but drink like five or more cups of coffee per day.

the benign simpleton

fuck you

I did too much cocaine last year

xxp

Caffeine is actually really good for you by most account. I just don't tolerate it well. I drank way too much of it and it contributed to my problems with insomnia.

Damn that's a lot of coffee, Treeship. RIP teeth

I'm not addicted tho, it was just there a lot xxp to me

my consumption of sugar fucked me up

like legit

I'm trying to cut back on cola + coffee because they're definitely exacerbating my anxiety. But... it's hard.

yes for sure

markers have you seen a doctor about it?

it took me years, not that it has to take someone else that long and not that i wasn't fucking pounding the largest possible slurpees at points

sugar is much more fucked up than caffeine, though i don't tolerate either very well.

i've only done coke once or twice, thank god it was not more than that

no i haven't but i did get a lot of tests two years ago and came back w/ no diabetes so i guess that's something? then again shit got bad mostly after those appointments iirc which i may not be

candy is also a no no for me. was off it then had some baklava and other shit around november and had to go back off it

I started getting outrageous sugar cravings, including unstoppable cravings for soda, when I started breastfeeding. I just went with it for awhile, but now I'm trying to pull back a little lest it become a habit. I'm in the same boat as crut in that I'm motivated to avoid anything with caffeine because it exacerbates anxiety so I can usually keep my soda consumption to one every couple of weeks.

Cocaine used to be really fun until one time about 11 years ago it wasn't fun at all and that was the end of that. It would be harder to give up candy.

Especially http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_images/farleys_fruit_slices.jpg.

i didn't have much of a choice on that last thing

cocaine i've never tried

http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_images/farleys_fruit_slices.jpg

FRUIT SLICES IT IS A PICTURE OF FRUIT SLICES

cocaine is kind of stupid. cannabis is x10000000000000000 times better in every aspect than basically all drugs

those i eat. also:

hahaha i was gonna try to embed the image here and when i opened it it was the candy not actual fruit, and i was referring to actual fruit

I drank 20oz cokes evey day for a long time along with coffee, but coke has been the one thing I've completely dropped from diet this past year ever since I had a kidney stone.

Haven't done the other type of coke since the 90s.

never done cocaine or pot and now i feel like i haven't really lived.

I like actual fruit, too, but fruit slices candy sing me a little siren song from the candy aisle at Walgreens every time I go in there for something else and the next thing I know, I've got granulated sugar all over my shirt and a stomach ache from eating the whole bag.

nothing wrong with reviving threads without bothering to read the original posts, refashion and repurpose if you wish

the reason i drank this stuff and has other sugars was that it made me feel good and it helped but then it hurt a lot and needed to get dumped. now i watch my sugar intake more. a lot of carbs tho now to make up for the abscence of the other stuff and i'm still doubtful that my relationship w/ shit i consume is 100% healthy (it isn't)

oh i would eat that shit ca, if i could

cocaine is kind of stupid. cannabis is x10000000000000000 times better in every aspect than basically all drugs

― marcos, Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:34 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Marijuana sucks. Never done coke but stimulants are enjoyable, if hella habit forming and dangerous, so cocaine ftw

xpost

Yeah, I'm dealing with an ongoing addiction to to fruity gummi candies. This was exacerbated last week when I discovered a bunch of new Trolli varieties at Buc-ee's in Bastrop, which may well be the world's largest convenience store.

Hi markers.

hello

markers i'm glad to hear you've quit soda, your old 7/11 only diet made me nauseous to think about

thanks! it was a good thing to do. and i haven't been back there since summer 2012 i think