Question

What tips can help someone prepare for the challenges of quitting a substance dependency? Isolate challenging work or strenuous physical activity until all temptation is gone, Keep your schedule and friends as a consistent as possible to avoid dealing with too many changes, Remove negative reminders and temptations from daily life and find a support system, or Use guilt as a self motivation tool to push yourself to a cleaner lifestyle?

Answer 1

The correct answer would be the third option.

When preparing to quit a substance dependency the best things you can do to help you would be to remove negative reminders and temptations, so get rid of anything you own that may influence you to reuse, so for example drug paraphernalia or empty packets of pills or empty bottles of alcohol, anything associated with the substance. Then find yourself a good support system, this could be a support group or friends and family that you trust and can rely on.