Fair play to you chaps- many people do not know what it is like to have a monkey to fight with, and some of you are dealing or have dealt with some of the King Kongs of monkies.
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Leaving the past in the past, these days I find tobacco, coffee, meditation, intense physical exercise, and regular sex all work for keeping me from dark corners. I really have a bit of personal distaste for puritanism. I used to feel bad just having a sparkling mineral water in a bar when my friends were drinking alcohol. Smoking a good cigar helps a lot. It enables me to tell them that I’m not a puritan, I’m just making different choices.
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I met someone very close to me who struggled with heroin addiction for years. She copes with very strict, puritanical Buddhist practice. She gave me a bit of a hard time about snuff. I told her I didn’t want to be addicted to a religious concept of purity, and snuff was the sacrament I took to honor that belief.
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@Tekno, I don’t post here often (I’m still learning a lot, so I’m really more of a lurker), but it’s good to bear in mind that damn near everyone has something they struggle with, whether they admit to it or not! Pills, cigs, gambling…whatever. But you’ve already made a great first couple of steps on your own, and maybe finding a community like this where everybody shares at least one thing in common that isn’t your particular vice will be a great help to you. Either way, I wish you the best. And if you want a legal and relatively safe mind-altering experience, start sticking a 50/50 mixture of rustica and Elmo’s Reserve up your nose!
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