Where to next?

Tips for making changes

• Write down how drugs are affecting your life. The focus on how good things can be once you can overcome your addiction.

• Decide on the reasons why you want to quit or cut down. It may be for your children, money or your health.

• Seek support from friends and family. It is difficult to quit or cut down by yourself.

• Don't rely on someone else to quit or cut down with you.

• Stop spending time with people who use drugs, to avoid temptation.

• Understand what triggers your drug use, so you can start avoiding them.

• Take care of your body, eat healthy, exercise and freshen up where you are living.

• Set manageable goals that you can stick to.

• If you end up using drugs after you have quit, don't panic, address the issue straight away before it sprials out of control.

• Boredom is the first step to relapse, so find ways to keep busy.

• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

• You always pass failure on your way to success.

• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

• Our greatest battles are with our own minds.

• Give yourself something to work towards - constantly.

• Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

• There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

• There's more than one way to cut back or quit, take a look around at different recovery options.