Detox Your Body Etc.

There are ways to make your road to recovery less difficult. If you know what can and will happen, you can then know the way you want to proceed. Your brain becomes addicted to an addictive substance such as cocaine. Cocaine abuse causes your brain to get out of balance. Over time, your brain demands increasing amounts of cocaine, with increasing frequency. It needs it to use as a replacement for the neurotransmitters that handled the tasks of normal brain functioning.

Damaged neurotransmitters can have many effects — not just on addicts. For example, there’s a condition called Excessive Daytime Sleepiness — a form of narcolepsy. No, probably you’ve never heard radio advertising campaigns in which the radio commercials talk about this condition. But it’s just another example of the obstacles presented by malfunctioning neurotransmitters.

 

So, if your brain is addicted, it is going to continue to send you messages to feed it more cocaine even after you make the decision to stop using. It’s not that you don’t want to quit your addiction. But it can’t be done without a fight. This is why people relapse so often. Your addicted brain can’t resist the urges and cravings to use again.

 

1.  Believe. Get and hold on to a positive attitude. A key to successful detox from cocaine is a positive attitude. The cravings to use cocaine are not imaginary, and they’re tough to overcome. Remember, it’s a brain thing. It’s not about you being weak or a failure.

 

2.Focus on a specific goal. Clearly identify it. Clarify it. Make your mental images as specific and as detailed as possible. Let it be your driving force. Think about it constantly. Talk about it out loud. Dream about it. Don’t allow yourself to give up on it. Ever. Get it accomplished. Believe it or not, achieving that goal can make everything you’ve been through worthwhile.

 

3.  Understand that you’re not alone. You are far from alone. Ending their relationship with cocaine once and for all is something that many others before you have succeeded at. Hope and help are available for family, friends, medical professionals, support groups like A.A, and spiritual advisors, too. You’ll be surprised by how many people understand your problem.

 

4.Hold yourself accountable. Stay committed to holding yourself accountable for your actions, both past and present. Find someone you respect and trust who also will hold you accountable.

 

5.  Trash your stash. Rid yourself of the tools you used to get cocaine — the people and places that helped you get the drug. Remove any connections to cocaine from your workspace, your home, your car, and your mobile phone.

 

6.  Remove yourself from negative patterns. Remove yourself from the old negative surroundings, situations and patterns. With whom did you use cocaine, and where and how and when? Your answers to these questions will reveal your greatest temptations. Get away from them so you can stay away from them.

 

7.  Establish for yourself new positive patterns. When stimulated by positive new situations, patterns and surroundings, your mind will begin to think differently. Rather than demanding that you give it increasing amounts of cocaine to function, they will help focus your addicted brain on something else.

 

8.Pursue forms of enjoyment and fun that are positive. Go back to your pre-addiction, healthy activities. Try new activities or the hobby you always wanted to explore. Keep your mind active and engaged in exciting and entertaining ways that safely bring you peace, pleasure and happiness.

 

9.  Get healthy. Get lots of exercise. Commit to a healthy diet. Exercise and nutrition  helps you to feel better physically, mentally, and emotionally than the cocaine did.