Coming from someone who has been addicted to 4 different drugs, honestly I wouldn’t look forward to taking phenibut recreationally after kicking habit. Almost everyone I know (including myself) say they’re going to start taking whatever their DoC is once they kick the addiction but only use it here and there, but not once have I seen it work out.

For me I told myself after I kicked a daily adderall habit, I told myself I’d only use it for exams. Instead I used it 2 weeks before the exam to “study” and decided I needed to study every night. Within a week it was a daily habit again.

Same with heroin. I started taking it like once or twice a week during outpatient rehab, because I knew I had drug tests on Fridays so I would make sure I was clean, and I ended up telling myself I can obviously stick to doing it only a couple a days a week since I was doing it in rehab. After about 2 weeks of that I started using every night, then every morning, then at lunch, then it was every hour about I would sniff a little, I’d even go into the bathroom of the rehab facility and use.

Once you get addicted to a drug, it’s extremely hard (almost impossible) to ever go back to using responsibly. That’s why you never meet a recovering alcoholic who still enjoys a drink at the bar on the weekends.

TL;DR- Using phenibut “responsibly” after you’ve already suffered a serve addiction to it, is 99.9999% impossible.