How did you recover?

[Kitten]

For those who are willing to share your own experiences of addiction and recovery, how did you recover? What steps did you take, did you ever slip back into old habits, etc?

[ammulu]

I never had any of the habit and I didn't have the need to recover but my husband had the habit and he didn't need to recover as he just decided to leave and just stopped it.

[justjoy]

Wow, Ammulu. Your husband must have an incredibly strong willpower and control! Good for him! Your experience made me wonder can we call an individual addicted to a substance, if he/she can simply stop using that substance?

[Green-Moo]

I think that one can be relate the lifestyle to the substance, so if you can be totally commited to changing the lifestyle then freeing yourself from addicition to the substance becomes easier.