This article is one in a series about recovery from tik addiction, written with gratitude to Yasmin, who agreed to let me tell her story to inspire others. Tik is the term used in Cape Town for crystal meth. Yasmin’s tenth session started with a confession. She had shared a friend’s pipe two days previously, as such she had 11-12 days of being totally clean, one mishap, and then two days clean afterwards. Looking at her, I could see that it was not one or two tokes only. So we set to work on this to start with. The aspects we dealt with this time were peer pressure. Yasmin said that her craving would be a 3 out of 10 if a friend was smoking in front of her then. We tapped on three statements he friends would say after she would have told them that she was not smoking (tik) any more. They went something like this. “Come on, who do you think you are, all pure now?” “What, you’re becoming a nun now?” “Come on, Yasmin, I know…
