Do y'all know how you can cope better with addiction?
Or how you can break an addiction?

I've read that the best ways to break an addiction are: Cutting it off for good (try to run into it or the same circumstances as rarely as possible) and replacing it with another thing (which of course has to be as important but less damaging).

So what do y'all think of addictions? An addiction is not a habit. The differences are few, but significant: You can break habit much easier, you usually take it because it's there and it usually doesn't hurt you... Whereas addiction usually gives pain if it's unfulfilled, it's usually provoked and it's hard to break (also probably the more you get the more you want).

Babbling, I know... But what does addiction mean to you? Have you had/are you having any? How did you stop them or how are you coping with them?

(I just know this one is gonna hit the roof too... Not. LOL)

Yeah nicotine addiction is the one that does me in. I've tried many times over the years but I just can't get off the fags, and that's even after watching my mum die of smoking related illness. In fact, I went to the hospital to sign her death certificate, and the first thing I did when I got outside was light a fag.

It's a right bastard, it is. I've come to realise that I don't even actually enjoy smoking... and I think anyone who says they do enjoy it is fooling themselves. It's shit. It tastes horrible, it stinks, and it kills you. There is no benefit or enjoyment to smoking at all.

It's a weird thing as well... you only really want a fag when you can't have one. And when you can have as many as you like, you wish you didn't have to do it.

Nicotine = evil.

i smoked 60 a day for 33 years until 2 months ago, moose666, when i decided to give champix a try. iv tried everything else and failed but these champix boyos are wonderful. they attach themselves to transmitters in your brain, imitating the nicotine, meaning that after a week or so of taking them there is no reward for smoking cigs and you just dont want to smoke.
might be worth giving them a try

http://www.champixinfo.co.uk/

I've found stopping immediately and coping with the pain of withdrawal easier than doing it gradually.
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I have one addiction that i need to get under control or it's guna send me round the bend ........

this is a cool topic ! i've tried giving up smoking, but generally after a couple of days i get so stressed at the most rediculously trivial thing and start caining them again !

The only other thing i've been adicted to is alcohol.. went through a time when i was 18/19 of drinking myself almost literally unconscious. Then i just stopped. That was probably the hardest part, the stopping, knowing that the alcohol was only a few feet away in the cupboard, but instead every time i felt the need to drink, i jumped on my pushbike and went for a 2hr ride instead.
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