Ashamed29 and Sophie28 you are both doing great.
The most important thing is the will to be free. I am not hypocritical enough to give the sage advice as someone who’ s life is free of codeine. I have addicted myself and tapered off 6 times now, which means at least i have had some practise.
I have found that tapering off can be quite quick at first – I split my dose and take half at night and half in the morning to stop the evenings and mornings from being so terrible. Then I taper quite severely until I am down to just a few tablets per day. At some point, even on a very steady taper there will be a pinch point and things will be really hard – this is when its important to push through, but also understand just how awful it is, so you don’t relapse and have to go through it again.
I have just come out the end of a really tough physical dependency, the pull to just go and by more is phenomenal, but the thought of having to taper off again is what is keeping me sober.
The only thing I don’t recommend is cold turkey – it has worked for a few, but they have been lucky. I always recommend a taper, that gets more and more gradual towards the end to lessen the difficulty. Then one day you realise, you have money in your bank account, you don’t have this love hate relationship with the chemist and you don’t feel like you are poisoning your body anymore.
Good luck to both of you.