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How to Stop Using Cocaine and Crack

How to stop using cocaine and crack

Gamification and rewards stimulate the brain to help you quit successfully

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contingency management uses rewards to motivate people in substance abuse treatment

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Struggling to Quit Cocaine For Good? You Don’t Have to Do It Alone.

Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs, and many traditional rehab clinics struggle to treat it effectively. Affect offers a new solution — a digital program designed specifically for people addicted to stimulants like cocaine and crack.

Our program uses a therapy called contingency management. This approach gives you real financial incentives for making progress in treatment, helping to retrain the parts of your brain that cocaine affects. It turns recovery into a motivating and rewarding experience.

Delivered through a smartphone app, Affect’s program is available anywhere, without going to an inpatient or outpatient facility. Affect offers support from licensed counselors and doctors who can help ease symptoms and guide your recovery. We also assist with housing, employment, and healthcare.

We Do Things Differently, and it Shows

Affect’s program delivers real results, so you can reclaim your life

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people treated

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Less likely to be hospitalized

Entirely Private, Fully Digital, and Always Available

Affect's sober app includes a sober tracker so you can monitor your drinking habits, drink mindfully, and drink less alcohol. It also has an online addiction treatment program if you need it

  • Telehealth, Right from Your Smartphone

    Your entire treatment program—counseling, doctor visits, peer support—is delivered through our secure mobile app. Attend sessions from anywhere, with no travel required.

  • 1:1 Support and Messaging

    Meet privately with licensed therapists and doctors via video, and message your care team anytime between sessions to stay connected and supported.

  • Real Rewards for Real Progress

    Our unique, science-backed rewards system helps you stay motivated and focused, with incentives of up to $599 for progressing in treatment and building new healthy habits.

  • Medications for Symptoms

    Our medical team can prescribe medications, if needed, to manage mental health symptoms, withdrawal, or cravings—discreetly and safely through the app.

  • Daily Challenges & Progress Tracking

    Build healthy habits with guided daily tasks and interactive lessons. Track your goals, log your daily use and sobriety, and watch your growth add up.

  • Support Both Inside and Outside of Treatment

    From finding a job to securing housing or reducing bills, your care team helps improve every part of your life—not just your recovery.

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If you’re ready to quit cocaine or crack, Affect can help. Download the app to get started and take your first step toward lasting recovery.

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Wondering about how to quit cocaine? We have answers…

  • Is cocaine addiction dangerous?

    Cocaine is a powerful, highly addictive stimulant that can cause serious harm—even at low doses. It damages the brain, disrupts normal brain function, and impairs memory, focus, and judgment. It can also lead to anxiety, paranoia, and depression, especially for those already under stress.

    Cocaine puts intense strain on the heart and blood vessels, increasing the risk of high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, and heart attacks—even in young, healthy people. The method of use adds more danger: smoking harms the lungs and throat, snorting damages nasal tissue, and injecting increases the risk of HIV, hepatitis, and other infections.

    Street cocaine is now often laced with fentanyl, a deadly opioid. Just one dose of this combination can be fatal. It’s the leading cause of overdose deaths in the U.S.

    Cocaine use can lead to risky behavior, legal trouble, and severe financial problems. The risks are real—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

  • Why is cocaine so addictive?

    Cocaine is addictive because it rewires your brain’s reward system, When you take cocaine, it releases a flood of a chemical called dopamine, which makes you feel great. Your brain loves this feeling and wants more of it.

    The problem is that after using cocaine for a while, your brain gets used to it. So, you need more and more cocaine to feel as good as you did before. This is called building up a tolerance.

    If you try to stop, your brain is no longer producing dopamine on its own so you feel sad, tired, and anxious without taking cocaine. These feelings are called withdrawal, and they make you want to use again just to make them go away.

    Cocaine changes your brain’s wiring and has long term effects in how you think and feel. And cocaine can cause serious brain damage.

  • Do I need to go to rehab to quit cocaine?

    “Rehab” or “rehabilitation” is short-hand for a variety of traditional treatment options, usually offered in physical locations that range from residential hospitals to outpatient clinics with daily scheduled sessions. While these types of programs offer intensive care, they can be difficult for people to attend, due to work, childcare, transportation, or financial limitations.

    People generally do not need to go to “detox” for cocaine addiction. Stimulant use does not result in dangerous physical withdrawal symptoms the way opioids and alcohol do that require supervised withdrawal management in a hospital or rehab facility.

    Affect was designed to make treatment accessible to anyone, anywhere, without going to rehab. Our program is entirely digital and delivered through a smartphone app, which means you can do it from home or work, in the city or in the country. We accept both employer and Medicaid insurance, so you don’t have to worry about high healthcare costs. It’s convenient and cost-effective, but it’s also complete, ensuring you get care that is supported by science and is customized for your needs.

  • What’s the best way to quit cocaine?

    Quitting cocaine on your own is extremely difficult. It’s one of the most addictive drugs, creating intense cravings and harsh withdrawal. Professional help is often the only way to quit for good—and now, there’s a program that works.

    Affect’s program was built specifically for stimulant addictions like cocaine. It uses research-backed methods, including contingency management, which rewards you for making progress—like leveling up in a game. These small wins keep you motivated and help rewire your brain for recovery.

    Unlike alcohol or opioids, there are no FDA-approved medications for cocaine addiction. That’s why Affect focuses on harm reduction—helping you gradually cut back while supporting your mental health with therapy and, when needed, medications to manage anxiety, depression, and cravings.

    Most rehab programs aren’t designed for stimulants. Ours is—and it’s changing the game.

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“Affect has shown me a caring side that I never had for myself. It has made me rise as an individual and I have uplifted my courage, bravery, and willpower to obtain my sobriety. Not only did I find myself, but I also found friends in counseling. By friends, I mean someone who really believes in you when others won’t. This program is amazing and works.”

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I’ve learned how to love myself and to forgive myself. I’ve mastered boundaries. I’m no longer uneasy living alone.

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Group and counselor support is the best. Life has improved because I learned it’s never too much trouble to take care of myself.

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I’ve been able to focus on things that are important in my life, including my children. That it’s the best thing that could ever have happened to them, and to me.

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