Quit Kit's Best Books to Help You Quit

I’ve quit nicotine, alcohol, Tramadol, and kratom. One of my primary methods for doing so was absolutely devouring books on addiction and mental mastery. 

The way I see it, every single thing that will ever happen to me will be understood inside an 8 lb lump of grey brain matter sitting behind my eyes. Craving to smoke? It’s in my brain. Desire to quit? Same place. Chasing my dreams? Well, all the dreams I ever had were formed in my brain, and the drive to chase them…same place. It’s all there, everything, right behind the eyes. 

The trouble is, my brain doesn’t act in its best interest. But before quitting kratom naturally or quitting any drug, my brain was its worst enemy, and it sucked at seeing the world the way I wanted it to: drug free. So it was like, alright, I can’t change my own mind about using. Maybe someone else can do it for me. 

That’s where the books I list out below came into play. These books reframed my perspective on myself, my addiction, and my future. They got in my psyche and started moving things around. That’s what good books do. They change the way you think. My hypothesis in reading these books was, if they help me get out of my own way, I could wrangle my brain into a version of itself I liked, clean, sober, and free from kratom addiction.

I can 100% credit these books with helping me quit and stay clean. Best of all, since I have trouble sitting still long enough to actually read words on pages, I just listened to these books on Audible. While eating lunch, driving, standing in line, cooking dinner, walking around the block, or whatever, I put these on and tuned in. Audiobooks for the win, man.

If you’re looking for help getting into your brain and rearranging your perspectives on you addicted and you sober, especially during kratom withdrawal or 7OH addiction recovery, these books might be right up your alley. They were for me. 

A reframing of the world you live in and the way you are in it. No one asked you if you wanted to be here and follow all the world’s rules, but here you are, and you’re following the rules. That can squelch you into pursuing life paths that you’ve been told are great, but which you find dull, pointless, or depressing. Story of my professional career, man. 

I 100% started using substances to cope with living an unfulfilling life. Which only…made it more unfulfilling. The Four Agreements opens this topic wide and paints a very clear picture: there are a handful of straightforward behaviors to manifest on a daily basis to help you escape the path of least fulfillment. It's a short book packed with awesome perspectives, and incredibly helpful for mindset shifts during kratom recovery. You can crush this in an afternoon.

What can I say about this book that hasn’t already been said about this book? I’ll put it this way, when I listened, I repeatedly felt like I was sitting in front of a therapist being diagnosed. But it wasn’t just, hey you’ve got this kind of problem; it was, hey you’ve got problems, but here are the underlying reasons. Like, you’ve been looking right for answers, but the solution is actually to the left. 

I listened to this book when newly sober from kratom extracts. It uncorked lingering self-doubt I have been holding onto for years and let it out for me to see plainly. To see it for what it really is. That’s real power, man. And it’s perfect for early kratom detox, when anxiety can be at its highest and confidence at its lowest. 

I listened to this book right before quitting kratom because Allen Carr’s Easyway to Quit Smoking solved my cigarette habit. I mean, I finished his smoking book and quit smoking. That simple. I’ve never smoked again. 

His Easyway method has helped millions quit smoking and drinking. I figured, alright, he doesn’t have a book for kratom addiction, so maybe I can mentally substitute “kratom” in for another substance. Cocaine doesn’t seem like an obvious choice, but I gave it a whirl, and the overlaps between using cocaine and kratom, 7OH, and opioids are remarkably similar. It boils down to something that was awesome and exciting at first, but turned into a devilish, private, uncontrollable habit in the end. 

Allen Carr’s method is profound, the book is written in simple language, and it can really, really, give you some good motivation when gearing up for kratom detox or when you’re already in the thick of kratom withdrawal. You just have to mentally swap the word “cocaine” for “kratom.”

Look, this is absolutely not the kind of literature I’d ever go for, normally. But Craig Beck is a good writer and fantastic narrator, and his book on quitting alcohol (Alcohol Lied to Me) was helpful for me to stop drinking. So I gave it a shot. I loved it. 

This book is like a reset on what it means to bring yourself into the life you want to have. If you want to be sober, especially if you want to stay sober after quitting kratom naturally, it applies. If you want to be happy after getting sober (a big thing for me), then it really applies. I’m not spiritual or religious, so I didn’t expect big things from this book, but man, I’ve listened to it three times by now. It’s a short read/listen, but very effective.