Tyler,
I started when I was 18, so not too long after you did. Get away, get far away.
Take a stand now. Take a stand before you make layers of excuses that become just a distant hum of static and noise that don't mean anything. That's what will happen if you let the days, months and years pass without pushing to kill the addiction now.
Arm yourself when you're young and the addiction is too. You have the advantage now. Don't wait until the addiction is entrenched and you have lost too many battles with it. It took the tears of my 10-year-old daughter to finally give me the ammunition to fight again.
Don't wait as long as I did.
FIGHT NOW. FIGHT NOW FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITHOUT THE SELF-ESTEEM KILLING POWER OF THIS ADDICTION. MAN-UP.
I'LL QUIT WITH YOU. I'M ON DAY 3.
-themightyrenegade