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What has been your hardest addiction to quit?
- Thread starter Baphomet
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Smoking cigarettes.
Took me years to stop. Went cold turkey and the withdrawal symptoms were intense. Took about four weeks to feel any form of normality.
Took me years to stop. Went cold turkey and the withdrawal symptoms were intense. Took about four weeks to feel any form of normality.
Don't know how it's where you live but here (Finland) it's easy to buy lactose free milk products as every shop has them. They taste pretty much the same too just lactose removed. I have been lactose intolerant for whole of my life and eat and drink shit ton of lactose free milk products.
Sugar. I used to smoke a lot of weed in high school, drank all through my 20s, did coke several times, used to smoke figs when I drank too. But having sugar is a weakness. I get cranky when I go off it for a diet.
I'm convinced that that is half the issue with people acting like assholes on survivor or naked and afraid! Sudden carb withdrawal.
I'm convinced that that is half the issue with people acting like assholes on survivor or naked and afraid! Sudden carb withdrawal.
Self Harm probably. I'm not even sure if that habit is really kicked, just lying in wait, ready to pounce upon my next panicky spiral
Caffeine in the morning. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate coffee in all shapes and forms (even mocha flavored stuff) and I'm sick of tea. :(
Caffeine
For reference, I successfully quit a 3 year smoking habit. The problem with caffeine is that it's a mood booster for me, so it's not just a craving that I have to try to combat, but also the harsh reality that is this theater of pain we call life.
Caffeine is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me from going feral and running off into the woods.
For reference, I successfully quit a 3 year smoking habit. The problem with caffeine is that it's a mood booster for me, so it's not just a craving that I have to try to combat, but also the harsh reality that is this theater of pain we call life.
Caffeine is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me from going feral and running off into the woods.
Caffeine. Can't get through work without a red bull or a double espresso. And I guess cigarettes, but I haven't tried stopping.
Junk food. I have eliminated pop from my diet almost entirely, but the convenience of grabbing an Egg McMuffin in the morning or some Food Court junk for lunch makes that habit too hard to break. I'm also a smoker, but I find the heart clogging, diabetes inducing foods to be a harder thing for me to go few days without than cigarettes, which I'll routinely go a few days without.
Food. Have gotten better at not eating trash like McDonalds or soda, but I still eat too much food.
Coffee. An hour of bliss for many hours of anxiety.
I quit for a few weeks earlier this year and didn't really see any major benefits. I recently went back to coffee but at a reduced amount. I would like to try to quit again but reports of it taking 6+ months to feel normal and energized without it sounds like hell.
I quit for a few weeks earlier this year and didn't really see any major benefits. I recently went back to coffee but at a reduced amount. I would like to try to quit again but reports of it taking 6+ months to feel normal and energized without it sounds like hell.
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When there were no nails to bite I started biting the skin around it.
Cigarettes.
I put it off for the longest time but I was finally successful in quitting in 2014 and haven't looked back!
I put it off for the longest time but I was finally successful in quitting in 2014 and haven't looked back!
Biting fingers and drinking pop. Was able to avoid pop for months at a time, but biting my fingers has been something I have struggled to quit doing. It's tough because it's literally always available. This is the year it ends though.
Nail bitting, spent years doing that to the point of bleeding my fingers, thankfully i managed to stop.
League of Legends took so much of my time it actually makes me feel sad when i think of it, and most of the time i wasn't even having fun, i was just obsessed with rank, and was stressed and angry all the time, that's over too.
Internet is the one to beat tough, i spend an obscene amount of time doing nothing productive.
Addiction is one of the worst things ever.
League of Legends took so much of my time it actually makes me feel sad when i think of it, and most of the time i wasn't even having fun, i was just obsessed with rank, and was stressed and angry all the time, that's over too.
Internet is the one to beat tough, i spend an obscene amount of time doing nothing productive.
Addiction is one of the worst things ever.
Beer/Wine. Never have came near being a raging alcoholic or anything, but wife and I are definitely on the functional alcoholic side with having 2-4 drinks more evenings than not. Both in good health, but should cut back some for sure.
Forums. But I've finally made a lot of progress there of viewing less and especially posting way less and avoiding getting sucked into arguments etc.
Forums. But I've finally made a lot of progress there of viewing less and especially posting way less and avoiding getting sucked into arguments etc.
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Soda, good lord! That was very hard to cut out because I was so used to drinking it with everything: breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, etc. Then, I realized that drinking it so frequently isn't doing me any wonders. So, I decided to cut it out completely. Initially, it was just a cutback, but I stayed addicted to it. Now, I can completely avoid it. I also cut out energy drinks, too. Now, I'm just trying to stick to juices and teas, with a bigger intake of water. Every time I see soda somewhere on or off campus, I'll just be like "Can't drink that; I'm retired from soda!"
Taco Bell.
Tackled Smoking. Went from from 260 lbs to about 198 in the past six months, by modifying eating habits... but I can't give up the Bell. I just hit up the tacos now instead of the big boxes specialsfor less calories. But yeah, no problem staying way from McDonalds/Wendys/Burger King burgers and shit, but yeah I pretty much MUST have Taco Bell once a week.
Tackled Smoking. Went from from 260 lbs to about 198 in the past six months, by modifying eating habits... but I can't give up the Bell. I just hit up the tacos now instead of the big boxes specialsfor less calories. But yeah, no problem staying way from McDonalds/Wendys/Burger King burgers and shit, but yeah I pretty much MUST have Taco Bell once a week.
Procrastination. Being productive for 5 minutes and reward myself literally with 2 hours of surfing the web, watching stupid youtube videos or checking social media. I had enough of that. Currently trying to quit social media (I already left Twitter and Tumblr and I'm heavily decreasing my time checking facebook and instagram too). Trying to indulge self-discipline because I finally realized all the time I've wasted after years of procrastination. Dissapointed in myself because of that so I'm currently trying to get my shit together.
Sugar. I didn't have difficulty quitting cigarettes. I quit weed and go long stints without alcohol too, though I k ow they aren't really addictive. Neither is sugar but fuck it had ruled my life for as long as I remember. I've always told my mom, she was a great parent but the one thing she failed on was giving me all the candy and soda and shit that I could consume and fatten up on as a child who didn't know better. She should have known better and not let me do that to myself.
Of course it wouldn't be so hard if I didn't live in a house with people who buy tons of deserts, but still.
Of course it wouldn't be so hard if I didn't live in a house with people who buy tons of deserts, but still.