help please with addiction and girlfriend

[California Dreamin']

I just found out that my boyfriend does it... what a turn off... anyways, it is either doing that or me, that is what it comes down to.

 

[California Dreamin']

I do not know about other programs, but I do have experience with AA and there are some people who can get through it easier than others. Some people just cannot kick their habit through the program, or they take a few ties, some can do it the first time around. There are quite a few AA and NA success stories in my family. I have seen a lot of people also come to Christ after kicking their habits.

419gam, have you been to AA or NA? Have you studied the research I have studied on the effectiveness of 12 Step programs? Have you worked with numerous drug addicts and done therapy with them? I have.

The 12 Step programs offer a spiritually based program of recovery using social support, cognitive restructuring and behavioral changes in an accepting atmosphere.

Seeker, if you want to make changes in your life, the choice is yours. You can justify using marijuana again, or get help to change your life.

 

[trust_faith]

I have been in and out of my past r/s. He is a buddhist while I am a christian. finally I choose to end it yesterday... I am feeling so terrible now... hai...
both of us were stubborn. It could lead us to no where.. he doesn't wan to come into my religion. I dun wan to go into his.. forget it..

 

[madison1101]

I was not knocking the 12 step program but there is not much in AA or NA for a pot smoker, marijuana is a vastly different drug, if you read my post carefully I reccomend MA which is Marijuana Anonymous, which is the organiztion he should be looking for if he wants a 12 step program. The level of support at NA, or AA will lack because pot is tottally different then both booze and hard drugs. I don't want to get sucked back into an arguement in this thread but if you where really knowledgable about 12 step programs why wouldn't you reccomend the most apropriate one, and why wouldn't you recognize MA, it follows right after AA and NA in my post.

The reason for recomending AA and NA is that in the large metropolitan area in which I live there are literally hundreds of those meetings to attend. I can leave my home on any given day and be less than 10 miles from several different meetings at any time of the day. There are two MA meeting in center city. I live 25 miles from center city. The availability of meetings is just not there. My clients go to both AA and NA in the treatment facility. They do not have access to center city. It is my professional opinion that the most appropriate program is the one that is most accessible.

I know people who suffer from eating disorders and can't get to an OA meeting, so they go to open AA meetings for the recovery. I know people who have loved ones who are drug addicts who go to Alanon because that is more available than Naranon.

If there is an MA meeting close to Seeker, great. If not, don't bash the other programs.