Here are a few relapse prevention strategies

1.    Go to either AA or NA meetings and share if you feel like using and get phone numbers.

2.    Call some one if you feel like using and tell them this will help sometimes if we are having some kind of problem.

3.    Call your sponsor I am sure they will have some suggestions of what you can do to help yourself.

This is the most commonly used method of how to stop using heroin.

Here is a huge relapse prevention strategy: help another person

It talks a lot about helping others in the NA literature and you can also find it throughout the bible. One thing this will do is get us out of our own minds when we put a little effort into helping another. It does not matter what we do it can be something as simple as raking the ladies lawn who lives next door to you. This makes us feel productive and feel good about ourselves. When you do something good for someone keep it to yourself this will be rewarding in and by it self we do not need others to tell us that we have done well. We know we have and God will reward us. It should be reward enough to have the desire to stop using heroin or other drugs lifted from us.

Another relapse prevention strategy is exercise and proper diet. Have you not heard that a healthy body creates a sound mind? One thing I like to do every day is go for a long walk about 2 miles I do this whether I want to or not. Sometimes I will be feeling depressed and not want to go and I have noticed that before I am half way finished with my walk I start feeling better who would have thought that? This is one of the best stratigies to stop using heroin I know.

Next it is important to eat healthy meals not fast food all the time like Burger King and Big Macs. One needs to have a proper diet that consists of veggies and fruit every day. This is very important to keep our strength up because at times our disease of addiction will take all our energy and we need this energy to stay clean we never know when we will need it.

Heroin addiction is very serious and while there are many drug rehab centers, it is recommended that addicts turn to a facility that provides a specialized focus on heroin rehabilitation for the best chance at successful recovery.