Originally Posted by
BlueBones 
In my experience, not effectively. There's a reason they keep using. If it could be easily done at home, there would be a lot more people getting off H. I've tried this with my SO before he was ready to enter treatment last time. We spent a fortune on unisom, supplements, immodium, and all sorts of crap to get him to feel somewhat 'normal' during withdrawals. He got about 2-3 days in. It didn't work and he went right back to using.
I stressed and slept next to this writhing, shaking, puking man for days and it did nothing but cause me stress and make me needlessly hopeful.
Yes, and treatment doesn't always help either; people go in, come out, start using again, go back in ...
And yet some people do quit and so far are staying clean, whether for one day, or one week, or one year, or one decade or more ...
I gather from the replies here so far that no one on this forum has done this and stayed clean so far ...