I noticed yesterday that I have kept an odd habit from my drug-using (meth, in case anyone really wants to know) days. I haven’t used since Feb of '01, but now when I get really tired (no sleep for 20 hours or more) I clench my teeth and suck the air out of my mouth. I used to do this when I was coming down. I don’t notice it until my mouth hurts. I also get itchy. I saw this anti-drug commercial once where this girl on drugs is sitting in the shower scratching her body and freaking out. I can totally relate. Anyways, my question is, has anyone else ever kept a habit that you can definitely say developed when you were a user?
Old habit? Feb 2001, thats only a year and a half. You need to wait a while longer before you talk about it like the stuff you used to do as a kid. Crank sucks. Nothing like a good nights sleep.
I tend to roll scrap paper, kind of like rolling a joint, if I’ve got nothing to fiddle with while I read or something. I haven’t done drugs in about 4 years (is that enough time for you, Beaten Man?) but I still tend to do it. The funny thing is, I was rarely the one to roll a joint, because I wasn’t all that good at it, and others would get impatient.
So I guess that’s my old habit.
I also have a gram baggie that I kept. It has an apple seed in it, given to me as a joke “gift” one day at school about 4.5 years ago. I hide the baggie still 
Way to be supportive, Beaten. When somebody says they have 19 months you’re supposed to applaud.
More to the pojnt he said “odd habit”.
About the only habits I still have from my drug-using past are the nose-rubbing from my coke days (clean for about two years, TYVM) - but that usually only happens when I am trying not to sneeze - and the occasional “space-out” from my pot-and-LSD days - staring at something (usually a blinking light) for a few seconds while my mind goes blank. Kinda odd, yes - but that is why I don’t do drugs anymore.
-Dirty
Don’t know if it’s a habit, but I still have very shakey hands that I got from (or at least noticed while using) coke and acid. Of course I still take Adderall (Which is basically pharm. speed) which doesn’t help with being shakey.
If a blinking light causes you to “space out” get yourself checked for epilepsy.
Well, I can still turn into a total asshole, even without the % of chemicals in my bloodstream as an excuse.
I’ve still got the “rolling scrap paper” habit, mostly when it comes to potato chip bags. It’s not a joint-rolling motion, it comes from rolling up the baggies of weed.
I still rub and scratch my nose and sniff at random for no reason.
i always find myself fiending for a few mins if i watch something on tv or from movies
my drugs of choice b4 were meth n ecstacy
i cant watch requiem for a dream anymore without feeling like, “aw…i miss doing such n such”
i had to drop all my former (i dont wanna call them friends) people…
stopped raves, stopped partying with people i used to, blah blah blah…i do miss raving alot tho, but when i think about it i guess the reason i miss it is because i was somewhere else(mind wise), and i was only there because of the drugs…but god do i love the music, hearing a live set makes me cry cuz its so good sometimes cough anyways…
habits i have are collecting baggies, i have about 70 or so,
i cant help but giggle to myself when i see razors in stores.
when i feel something cool, im always like, “o man, that would feel so cool on E”
and if i cant sleep one night i go completely bonkers feeling like im wired on ‘jib’ and i cant relax
hehe to comment on peoples rolling joints things, i actually hate weed more then anything on earth and im one the best rollers i know and i dont even smoke the crap 
I’ve noticed that former cigarette smokers will often hold a pen or similar object between two fingers, like a cigarette, when the object is not actually being used.
lol, i do that and im still smoking
Well when I’m watching T.V. or spacing out, I’ll clench my teeth. I never did that before I started doing coke. I’ve stop 10 years ago and I’ll do it, not as often but once in a while I’ll catch myself clenching so hard it will hurt.
really? i never knew that was a sign of epilepsy. not to hijack (sorry), but strobe lights make me feel panicked and move slowly, like i’m in a dream and i’m not actually there, just watching everyone around me. i would add something interesting to try to make this less of a hijack, but i’ve never done drugs. sorry.
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To this day, I cannot stand it when cops look at me for more than a glance.
Oh yeah get yourself checked out. Do you get it sometimes when looking at TV or in a car thats going through shadows?
Could be a mild form. Could be due to the drugs. I don’t know but a doc. will.
Get thee to a nun… errrr surgery
I just noticed the other day that I do that, too. Although I think mine is more from the LSD I used to do, since I don’t remember much jaw-clenching when I was on coke.
Try getting questioned by them. (it was something non-drug-related, and I wasn’t a suspect, [nor did I know any of the subjects personally] but it still bothered me.)
Thanks for the advice, although I should have known that already, as one of my good friends has epilepsy.
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I wonder, though - my blinking light space-out is not really all that similar to the blinking lights that cause my friend to have a seizure; that’s usually the super-fast, Japanese video game type of blinking. Mine is more a steady, every-few-seconds type of thing. Any correlation?
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-Dirty
I occasionally find myself licking my lips constantly or chewing on them, something I had never done until I had started coke. I also do the zoning out on walls thing from the acid and shroom days, but this is also do to that the walls and floors and ceilings still move.