Dallas Bragg outlines a three-month plan to stop weekend methamphetamine use by building accountability, filling weekends with non-cancellable commitments, and scheduling creative, social, physical, and mentally challenging activities. The strategy treats addiction as neural pathways that need preemptive disruption through structured planning that eliminates gaps where relapse could happen.
This is exactly how you're going to structure the first 3 months of Tina-free weekends. Guys, if you want to interrupt the patterns of your life that have led to Tina use, you must be proactive and develop a preemptive strike on the subconscious. You've created deep neural pathways inside your brain that will fight to maintain their function, the functions that you've Authored and created. Develop a foolproof plan to cut off any access to Tina and to interrupt any habitual patterns that you've created. This is going to be very uncomfortable at first, but listen. Number 1, create an accountability network of people who will watch your locations, check in on you. Number 2, pack your calendar with events that you cannot get out of, especially early morning events that will necessitate an early bedtime. Number 3, Make sure you have all components covered. Something creative, something social, something physical, something mentally challenging. Number 4, look over the weekend and ask, where did I leave space to use? Where did I leave space that would allow me to make a decision to hop on Grindr or sneak out to the bathhouse? These little cracks in in your subconscious, little cracks in your schedule, they're setting it up so that you have a choice to use. And that is a gamble. You are gambling. And in the beginning, the odds are in Tina's favor. Plans and structure work. You have to relinquish control in order to gain control of your life.
