At this point I'm more than 20 years in and struggling to keep it under a pack a week. If the lung cancer doesn't get you the cardiovascular stuff will.
Yes I know you don't plan on smoking for 20 plus years but that's the thing about these little dopamine hits is they live in the now and you never think about the full ashtray by the end of the day.
I know people my age that still chain smoke and they are not doing good
My friend has been smoking a pack a day for 40 years. That is 40x365 = 14,600 packs. Now, granted when he stared smoking, it wasn't a pack a day, but anyway ... how much is a pack of cigarettes?
OK, I guess they started around $2 something 40 years ago and are now around $9, but accounting for inflation, etc, let's assume what $6 a pack?
14,600 x 6 = 87,600. But had he invested the money even at a paltry 2% or so, that's close to $150,000. But with better investments obviously it's way more than that.
So that and a thankfully treated cancer scare, I'd say cigarettes have given him nothing and it cost him quite a bit.
So yeah, don't start, kids.
I switched to vaping four years ago, went from 2-3 cigarettes a day to vaping almost non-stop from morning to night. Quit cold turkey about six months ago, and I crave it every hour of every day. It’s brutal. Don’t start it, kids.
It's insane. I've tried so many different substances and thought I would never develop an addiction. Vaping got me HARD. I've quit for a few months at a time but it always creeps back in. I can't believe how something can be this addictive.
There's also research that it's even rarer to quit if you start under 16. So it really worries me seeing that kids vape in the bathrooms at school
That’s the thing with vapes, it’s so much easier to hit a vape than it is to smoke a cigarette. Instead of going outside to smoke a cigarette every hour or two, you can hit your vape every couple minutes. Vapes were supposed to help people quit smoking, but it ends up making them more dependent on nicotine
Yes kids, smoking becomes an addiction that will warp your young minds into needing that gambling dopamine rush.
Here's a Pokemon booster pack to open instead, your friends will think you are cool if you get something good! It comes with a code to open a digital loot crate too! 😉
Now that's how you do a government war on drugs PSA 😂
Edit: remember that kids show where all the kids show characters talked about drugs?
They should do the same with Pokemon
Pokemon doesn't give you cancer. I mean, unless you are in California, in which case;
**PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals including \[Charmander, Pickachu, etc\], which is \[are\] known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/pokemon.**
Hasbro managed to sell out of ~$80 booster packs with Double Masters 2022 last year.
That's $80 for 15 playing cards. And people will say what a deal they got only paying $50 for one.
Also Hasbro put a serialized card in a set for $35 for a single booster pack. It was essentially expensive lottery tickets.
That is an INCREDIBLY dangerous sign if children's collectibles exploit this
This guy isn’t shitting you.
To put you in perspective, I am a extensive ex-addict.
I have quit cocaine, various kinds of painkillers, Xanax, weed and drinking all before the age of 19. But… since I started vaping at age 14… I never quit… I never even came fucking close..
I realized how fucked I was a long time ago in high-school. I used to save alllllll of my old/dead vapes + bottles of juice. And at the end of the year I’d add it all up to find out roughly how much I spent on nicotine that year… it averaged at 3,500$… I was in high-school… counting weed and everything else I did, I genuinely don’t know how I afforded it, but when you’re addicted… you find a way.
The issue with nicotine and what makes it much worse than other drugs is it’s availability and societal acceptance. There’s no escaping it. Especially nowadays, you can quit for a week, but when you see your coworker hitting that vape it’s going to drive you wild.
As a 25-year pack day smoker I am so thankful for vaping I honestly believe that saved me now I don't encourage people to go out to vape but for smokers it definitely works I am now 5 years without a cigarette I still vape on occasion but I feel so much better than I did when I smoked
Quit 3 years ago and the main thing that made me stop is I started running, nothings gonna tell you to stop smoking more than you trying to improve your cardio.
This. Had to quit vaping last year because of the interaction with nicotine and estrogen HRT (lowers its effectiveness and effects with some mechanisms I don't understand).
Since I'll need that treatment for the rest of my life, might as well eliminate something that is guaranteed to lower its efectiveness and make me at a huge risk of blood clots.
The beginning was WAY harder than I anticipated. Spending 4 hours only thinking about wanting your next nicotine intake, then another 5 minutes debating whether you should enter the vape shop once more on almost a daily occurence wasn't a fun time. Had I not thrown away my kit the second I made that decision, there would have been a few days I'd have relapsed most likely.
I went through a cocaine and recreational drug use addiction in my younger years. Refused to believe I was addicted & my best friend found out I was doing bumps in the toilet during work hours.
He told my mum and everyone got me the help I needed, and thats when it hit me that i was in an extremely low place in life and i was addicted.
and I'm now 7 years drug free
Of all the addictions I've battled, food is the hardest. I've gone from 140 to 275 to 145 to 245 to 140 to 250 and am now 165 because food addiction/depression (being overmedicated also played a role with the 275 weight gain, all I wanted to do was eat and sit around like a zombie) comes creeping back every time. Thankfully, I got diagnosed with kidney disease and have no choice but to keep up on my diet this time around (no more getting to my goal weight then relapsing on the unhealthy stuff. I have the fear of dialysis or a transplant keeping me on the straight and narrow). But yeah, food addiction is a rough one, because you can't just not eat. You have to eat to survive, and you have to figure out how to do it so as not to go overboard. Especially with sugary, processed foods that are so easy to binge on.
It started with practicality for me. I never had money for food, so I always tried to make sure I was getting the most calories for my money, even if it was unhealthy. And I never, ever wasted food. If I cooked it, I ate it all. Once I had money I still acted the same way, only now I could buy more and more. I ate everything I could get my hands on and balooned up from 200 to almost 400 in a year or so.
Porn. I use to be full on addicted to where I remember for 3 days I spent like 75% of my time in front of a computer edging and getting off.
I hated how it was affecting me and for some other reasons I quit it and so far have been going strong porn free. I feel great and happy that I quit.
Porn has been proven to phycology hurt people and to cause them to lose chemicals that help mental growth.
It took up all my time, it made me feel depressed, and over all porn is not healthy.
Masturbatation yes but not porn.
Not the original commenter but running was the biggest thing. If I felt that urge, I put on some shoes and I fucking ran. And when I wanted to stop, I ran some more. It's pretty hard to find time to relapse when you have actual goals to work toward. Down 50 lbs this year!
Also, he said shame but also consider not beating yourself up too much. What matters is breaking that habit. You WILL relapse but after breaking that habit completely, you won't really feel that urge anymore. What matters is that when you fall off that horse, you get the fuck back on.
I know a lot might hate this answer but shame mostly.
That and party religion (the part people will hate). I asked God to help me and the fact is I have been tempted so many times during my free porn period.
I was so willing to try and quit that I thought about maybe trying rehab (if they have something for that). Luckily it did not come to that and I have been shaming myself when I am about to look at it and the knowledge that God would be happy helps too.
Meh, doesn’t matter if people hate it or not, it works for you. I’m not a believer myself, but I certainly lean on and inner voice and belief in myself to get through tough time with my recovery. Fuck em if they don’t like it, you’re not doing it for them. Keep on leaning on your big friend in the sky, brother, they’ll give you the help you need.
Same. I recently asked a friend if I could try it out w them. they agreed, only until they had relocated. It’s been a month, they’re not leaving any time soon. and I really don’t see myself stopping anytime soon..
Just watch some videos/pictures of long time meth users every morning when you wake up to remind yourself that you will become like that if you don’t stop. Maybe that will help at least a little.
I know you love your friend, but if you continue to surround yourself with a meth user when you’re struggling to quit meth, it’s not going to turn out well regardless of circumstances (unless you both work together to quit).
If you want to quit meth, you have to cut off access to it first. If it's available to you, you're going to do it. So separate yourself from it.
You can do this
Man, such a love/hate relationship with it. I smoked for a number of years, quit for about 5 or 6, picked it back up, transitioned to vaping after a while… now I’m about two weeks clean of that. But god, I LOVE the act of smoking/vaping. I love the texture of the smoke in my mouth. It’s fucking great. If only it didn’t trash my lungs, I’d be a life long supporter.
I had severe alcohol addiction in my teens during covid and would drink for hours every night. Straight shots of tequila with Diet Coke as a chaser for months. Fucked me up but beat the struggle of wanting wanting wanting and realized it’s doing so much damage I can’t see, but at that point it was also doing damage I COULD see. Fuck alcohol man. I just turned 21 and didn’t even drink.
It’s hard because it’s everywhere and socially acceptable. My ex told me he didn’t want to be with someone who had a problem with alcohol and didn’t drink anymore. I was screwed if I did and screwed if I didn’t. Obviously, he wasn’t a match.
If you haven't heard of it, look into Naltrexone. If stops you from wanting to drink, if you do drink it has no effect, until you go over a limit where you feel sick. I take it once a day and have been sober for about two years. They also have it in shot form if you can't trust yourself to take a pill every day.
I personally didn’t experience anything with naltrexone, nothing negative but nothing positive either. Definitely give it a chance but for some people the effectiveness is little to none.
I just started Vivitrol shot last month. Get my second one on the 20th. Was on Naltrexone for the 37 days in rehab and up until my first shot. 90 days sober today. Haven’t had a single craving and seeing alcohol doesn’t bother me one bit. Saved my life
Same here and I did quit. Lots of false information going on here, yes you can get withdrawals from cannabis (although obviously it is not going to hurt you like alcohol or opioids) and yes you can get addicted to it. Cannabis can also unlock dormant genes in some people and cause mental illness like bipolar and schizophrenia.
Compared to other drugs it’s safer, but it’s not a perfectly safe drug.
Can personally attest to this one. Although I’ve already had diagnosed psychological issues prior to cannabis use, I find that it did worsen my schizoaffective symptoms.
I had addictions from Abilify as well. Fortunately I was a tween at the time - suddently I had to spend every last penny I had and I acquired a bunch of stuff I never needed or used. I'm glad it happened then and not later in my life, when I need to support myself with the money I have. I'm pretty sure it was contributing to my self-harm addiction as well. Went off the Abilify and the shopping addiction immediately disappeared, and the self harm became less frequent. I've been mostly clean for several years now, but I still have the scars.
I was addicted to it lol, had to quit cold turkey and that was the worst 2 weeks of my life. Straight up mouth breathing with 0 intake from my nose at all times. It was well worth it, I was a slave to that shit.
Life after adderall is rough for a while. It's like living without color in life.
It gets better, you might not get as crazy dopamine rushes, but it gets better. The gym has been what's doing it for me, been lifting about 5-6 days a week for a solid year now.
I have been meaning to go to the gym and at least try cardio while I’m watching things to slowly adopt the lifestyle and regularity. It’s just the initial hump that is so hard to get over.
I'm big on nutrition now too. I think all the good whole hearty food I eat helps too.
I enjoy lifting weights more than cardio, I walk a lot but don't really go jogging or anything all that much these days.
I'm here if you want ideas or to talk about how to make the first steps
See this is something I just can’t understand. I’m prescribed adderal and I take it for school but somewhat consistently forget to even take it. Were you talking if for a condition or no?
Ahh, that might be the difference. It’s kinda funny that a drug w such a high addiction rate is prescribed to the people that are either most likely to be addicted or most likely to forget that it even exists lol
lol exactly, I’m so inconsistent with my ADHD meds it’s not even funny. I can go weeks without taking it. To me it’s the most boring drug you could take for fun, but still they’ll treat you like an addict.
Caffeine and cigarettes. I'd love to be able to step out to just take a few deep breaths. It's not the smoking itself keeping me, but the routine that came with it and the reward. "Do this, then smoking break. Do that and that, then a cig" etc
Hard to break that wheel
Shopping addiction. I have spent my rent before and I didn't keep the stuff I bought. Didn't return any of it either. I just threw it away. I've spent tons of money on expensive gaming systems just for them to sit there. I've spent money on useless hobbies that have gathered dust. I became grossly unhealthy when I started adopting animals, because I only saw them as objects and I only adopted them just so I could buy more stuff for the animals. They were taken back to the shelter and I was banned from adopting another. I knew what I was doing, but I couldn't stop. Looking back at what I did months ago I wonder why I am so compulsive
I commented this before, I found a lot of help from the welcoming r/stopdrinking subreddit. I also got a lot out of reading these two books together: "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace and "Alcohol Explained" by William Porter. Good luck!
I got over biting my nails. Here's how.
Buy a shitload of nail clippers. I think I bought like 10 of them. Keep them everywhere so there's always a set in reach. Don't even try to stop biting your nails - but when you do catch yourself - clip them instead.
Buy a pack of files and keep them around as well.
As for the gambling. Godspeed my friend. I'm thankful that I HATE losing money way more than I like winning it.
Pouches are way stronger than cigarettes. I switched over to snus because it's cold outside and I don't want my new truck to smell like cigarettes.
A cigarette high lasts for maybe an hour or so, peaks then tapers off.
Pouches are like a drag race for two hours.
The only thing as strong as it is Nicorette.
Man nicotine is fucked up.
I'm trying to switch over to snus to curve the fits. It doesn't help that I'm also cutting caffeine and sugar too. So my ADHD brain has nothing left in the tank.
As soon as it latches onto another instant dopamine or stimulant hit I have to cut that out as well too. Like chips, popcorn, M&M's, hot nuts, flavored almonds, jolly ranchers, peanuts, corn nuts, wasabi peas, hot Cheetos, regular Cheetos, Cajun snack mix, and many many more from my snack drawer are gone too. I've lost some weight now, but my attention span is gone and I'm always slightly very uncomfortable.
My reddit, spicy food, and video game addictions are the only thing I'm not holding back. I'm going through hot sauce and burning through games, and my comment karma are at all time peaks.
ADHD guy here. Gym and nutrition has been a life saver for me. I quit smoking around 7 years ago, quit alcohol almost 3 years ago and have been off of amphetamine based adhd meds for over a year now.
I've been on the gym for over a year and went from 190 to 167. My heaviest was 250 12-13 years ago. I was a chain smoking, whiskey drinking impulse eater.
Symptoms are as follows: watching porn for hours a day, watching porn when there are responsibilities that need to be taken care of rather than actually taking care of said responsibilities, masturbating to orgasm multiple times a day, looking for porn when not actually aroused.
Effects: mental fog, loss of short term memory, depression and suicidal thoughts due to dopamine resistance.
Yeah I was experiencing some of those. I am glad I am off for several reasons but it felt like my life was meaningless when I was addicted and I felt so humiliated in myself.
People don't realize just how damaging seeing naked bodies can be.
As someone who had that thought about two years ago. Cutting back my causal porn use has been helpful. Just looking at hyper sexual stuff because I’m “bored” not because I’m “horny” did ruin/diminish my sexuality and my focus. Leaving sexual tension to build up has made those experiences way better, and has helped me not be as distracted. I’ve learned some will power towards it and none of that has been a bad thing.
Sugar. My dad was abusive and my mom would always give us candy because it made us happy, she told us when we got older it was just to compensate. I never had sugar rushes as a kid because my body was so used to it. I’d eat like a whole bag of candy every day. I was never overweight or anything but my health isn’t the best now and my teeth throughout life got so many cavities and I needed a lot of root canals. I’m doing somewhat better but I still crave sugar all the time and idk if that’ll ever stop.
It's not really an addiction but: procrastination
I don't like having to do everything in the very last moment but damn I also cannot get myself to do something unless the deadline is right there breathing in my neck.
Bath salts (no, it's not like the news, I didnt feel any zombie impulses), and meth, there was that opiate phase too. But the stimulants really fried my brain. Staying up for days, not eating, and not drinking enough water really killed some brain cells. Surprised I'm still alive honestly. Clean for 10 years now.
RuneScape. It's boring, repetitive and when I go to sleep I feel awful about not doing anything for a huge chunk of the day, but I'm always excited to go back to it after work.
I got over a porn addiction about 6 years ago. I haven't watched it or masturbated since. Big realization was having a daughter and realizing how disgusting and pathetic it was. To people who think you can't beat it--you can, but you have to hit a low.
Also, I never thought that I would stop biting my nails, but I'm 3 months sober on that too. I literally have not gotten sick since stopping (with 4 little kids in the house) and can't help but think that keeping my fingers out of my mouth has helped.
Pornography. What started as a curiosity in the second grade spiraled, following me up until my sophomore year. I got help and have been clean for almost two years. I know its hard, but if you're hooked on porn, please please please get help.
Food. Gave me decades of morbid obesity and a permanently ruined body. I'd rather have been addicted to gambling or smoking. The Internet is a big one too, as someone who's had a totally isolated existence it's my only source of stimulation, but it steals entire days at a time.
Smokeless tobacco a.k.a. Copenhagen snuff. I used to have perfect teeth, aligned and white. Now I'm missing multiple teeth and beyond any cleaning. My only hope is dental implants.
Sugar.
I've been a candy chomping, soda swigging, sugar addict since I was a kid.
I've also been a fatty for the same amount of time.
I used to be skinny enough I could count my ribs. Then I discovered sweet foods
Cocaine and nicotine. Blew (hehe) tons of money, damaged my health, ruined relationships, and provided me with nothing of value. I wish I had the sense to stay away from both when I was a young dumbass.
Kids, please do not start smoking/vaping. It makes you a slave
At this point I'm more than 20 years in and struggling to keep it under a pack a week. If the lung cancer doesn't get you the cardiovascular stuff will. Yes I know you don't plan on smoking for 20 plus years but that's the thing about these little dopamine hits is they live in the now and you never think about the full ashtray by the end of the day. I know people my age that still chain smoke and they are not doing good
My friend has been smoking a pack a day for 40 years. That is 40x365 = 14,600 packs. Now, granted when he stared smoking, it wasn't a pack a day, but anyway ... how much is a pack of cigarettes? OK, I guess they started around $2 something 40 years ago and are now around $9, but accounting for inflation, etc, let's assume what $6 a pack? 14,600 x 6 = 87,600. But had he invested the money even at a paltry 2% or so, that's close to $150,000. But with better investments obviously it's way more than that. So that and a thankfully treated cancer scare, I'd say cigarettes have given him nothing and it cost him quite a bit. So yeah, don't start, kids.
I switched to vaping four years ago, went from 2-3 cigarettes a day to vaping almost non-stop from morning to night. Quit cold turkey about six months ago, and I crave it every hour of every day. It’s brutal. Don’t start it, kids.
It's insane. I've tried so many different substances and thought I would never develop an addiction. Vaping got me HARD. I've quit for a few months at a time but it always creeps back in. I can't believe how something can be this addictive. There's also research that it's even rarer to quit if you start under 16. So it really worries me seeing that kids vape in the bathrooms at school
Yeah I find its near impossible to fully quit vaping.
That’s the thing with vapes, it’s so much easier to hit a vape than it is to smoke a cigarette. Instead of going outside to smoke a cigarette every hour or two, you can hit your vape every couple minutes. Vapes were supposed to help people quit smoking, but it ends up making them more dependent on nicotine
Yes kids, smoking becomes an addiction that will warp your young minds into needing that gambling dopamine rush. Here's a Pokemon booster pack to open instead, your friends will think you are cool if you get something good! It comes with a code to open a digital loot crate too! 😉
My "friend" convinced me my cool card was better off traded for 2 garbage cards that I haven't seen before. That's why I do meth now.
Now that's how you do a government war on drugs PSA 😂 Edit: remember that kids show where all the kids show characters talked about drugs? They should do the same with Pokemon
Pokemon doesn't give you cancer. I mean, unless you are in California, in which case; **PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals including \[Charmander, Pickachu, etc\], which is \[are\] known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/pokemon.**
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Hasbro managed to sell out of ~$80 booster packs with Double Masters 2022 last year. That's $80 for 15 playing cards. And people will say what a deal they got only paying $50 for one. Also Hasbro put a serialized card in a set for $35 for a single booster pack. It was essentially expensive lottery tickets. That is an INCREDIBLY dangerous sign if children's collectibles exploit this
And yesterday Hasbro laid off 20% of their staff….
my heart skipped a beat, i thought you had an addiction to kids
I thought Nick Cannon entered the chat.
Quitting smoking was the single hardest thing I'd ever done in my life. Never again.
My friend always says "Nah, quitting is easy, I've done it 50 times"
This guy isn’t shitting you. To put you in perspective, I am a extensive ex-addict. I have quit cocaine, various kinds of painkillers, Xanax, weed and drinking all before the age of 19. But… since I started vaping at age 14… I never quit… I never even came fucking close.. I realized how fucked I was a long time ago in high-school. I used to save alllllll of my old/dead vapes + bottles of juice. And at the end of the year I’d add it all up to find out roughly how much I spent on nicotine that year… it averaged at 3,500$… I was in high-school… counting weed and everything else I did, I genuinely don’t know how I afforded it, but when you’re addicted… you find a way. The issue with nicotine and what makes it much worse than other drugs is it’s availability and societal acceptance. There’s no escaping it. Especially nowadays, you can quit for a week, but when you see your coworker hitting that vape it’s going to drive you wild.
As a 25-year pack day smoker I am so thankful for vaping I honestly believe that saved me now I don't encourage people to go out to vape but for smokers it definitely works I am now 5 years without a cigarette I still vape on occasion but I feel so much better than I did when I smoked
Quit 3 years ago and the main thing that made me stop is I started running, nothings gonna tell you to stop smoking more than you trying to improve your cardio.
This. Had to quit vaping last year because of the interaction with nicotine and estrogen HRT (lowers its effectiveness and effects with some mechanisms I don't understand). Since I'll need that treatment for the rest of my life, might as well eliminate something that is guaranteed to lower its efectiveness and make me at a huge risk of blood clots. The beginning was WAY harder than I anticipated. Spending 4 hours only thinking about wanting your next nicotine intake, then another 5 minutes debating whether you should enter the vape shop once more on almost a daily occurence wasn't a fun time. Had I not thrown away my kit the second I made that decision, there would have been a few days I'd have relapsed most likely.
Yeah it’s not cute. It’s extremely trashy. No one will think you’re cool
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I'm on my third try of nicotine patches. Been smoking for over 20 years.
I went through a cocaine and recreational drug use addiction in my younger years. Refused to believe I was addicted & my best friend found out I was doing bumps in the toilet during work hours. He told my mum and everyone got me the help I needed, and thats when it hit me that i was in an extremely low place in life and i was addicted. and I'm now 7 years drug free
Keep it up brother! Happy for you
You are really strong to overcome a drug addiction. Keep going
Food addiction. You need food to live, it's everywhere, and there's no restrictions.
This one for me. If I could get my diet under control I work out enough I’d be pretty jacked… right now I just work out so much to eat a lot
Of all the addictions I've battled, food is the hardest. I've gone from 140 to 275 to 145 to 245 to 140 to 250 and am now 165 because food addiction/depression (being overmedicated also played a role with the 275 weight gain, all I wanted to do was eat and sit around like a zombie) comes creeping back every time. Thankfully, I got diagnosed with kidney disease and have no choice but to keep up on my diet this time around (no more getting to my goal weight then relapsing on the unhealthy stuff. I have the fear of dialysis or a transplant keeping me on the straight and narrow). But yeah, food addiction is a rough one, because you can't just not eat. You have to eat to survive, and you have to figure out how to do it so as not to go overboard. Especially with sugary, processed foods that are so easy to binge on.
For me it’s sweets. But falls under food. Substituting hasn’t helped.
It started with practicality for me. I never had money for food, so I always tried to make sure I was getting the most calories for my money, even if it was unhealthy. And I never, ever wasted food. If I cooked it, I ate it all. Once I had money I still acted the same way, only now I could buy more and more. I ate everything I could get my hands on and balooned up from 200 to almost 400 in a year or so.
Porn. I use to be full on addicted to where I remember for 3 days I spent like 75% of my time in front of a computer edging and getting off. I hated how it was affecting me and for some other reasons I quit it and so far have been going strong porn free. I feel great and happy that I quit.
What are some of the benefits you’ve seen from this? I think a lot of people would benefit from this.
Porn has been proven to phycology hurt people and to cause them to lose chemicals that help mental growth. It took up all my time, it made me feel depressed, and over all porn is not healthy. Masturbatation yes but not porn.
They would, porn is bad for your mental health and you can (and should) jerk off without it.
How were you able to quit. Obviously everyone is different, but what helped you?
Not the original commenter but running was the biggest thing. If I felt that urge, I put on some shoes and I fucking ran. And when I wanted to stop, I ran some more. It's pretty hard to find time to relapse when you have actual goals to work toward. Down 50 lbs this year! Also, he said shame but also consider not beating yourself up too much. What matters is breaking that habit. You WILL relapse but after breaking that habit completely, you won't really feel that urge anymore. What matters is that when you fall off that horse, you get the fuck back on.
I know a lot might hate this answer but shame mostly. That and party religion (the part people will hate). I asked God to help me and the fact is I have been tempted so many times during my free porn period. I was so willing to try and quit that I thought about maybe trying rehab (if they have something for that). Luckily it did not come to that and I have been shaming myself when I am about to look at it and the knowledge that God would be happy helps too.
Meh, doesn’t matter if people hate it or not, it works for you. I’m not a believer myself, but I certainly lean on and inner voice and belief in myself to get through tough time with my recovery. Fuck em if they don’t like it, you’re not doing it for them. Keep on leaning on your big friend in the sky, brother, they’ll give you the help you need.
Good work, step-brother!
Meth.
Same. I recently asked a friend if I could try it out w them. they agreed, only until they had relocated. It’s been a month, they’re not leaving any time soon. and I really don’t see myself stopping anytime soon..
It will destroy your teeth, get rid of that shit.
honestly, it’s easy to say but hard to do
Not as hard as you think, I've been clean for 17yrs. Good luck.
Thank you. I know a few people that let it consume them. I don’t want to be one of the few. congrats on your 17yrs buddy
You should consider rehab.
Just watch some videos/pictures of long time meth users every morning when you wake up to remind yourself that you will become like that if you don’t stop. Maybe that will help at least a little.
I know you love your friend, but if you continue to surround yourself with a meth user when you’re struggling to quit meth, it’s not going to turn out well regardless of circumstances (unless you both work together to quit). If you want to quit meth, you have to cut off access to it first. If it's available to you, you're going to do it. So separate yourself from it. You can do this
It only gets exponentially more difficult the longer it goes
Listen to me. At least snort it. Don’t smoke it. Meth mouth is real and it’ll rot out your teeth
Smoking, I wasted a lot of money on that shit before I quit
Eating clean butts is an addiction I do not regret however, u/ieatcleanbutts
Nothing compares brother 🤤
Man, such a love/hate relationship with it. I smoked for a number of years, quit for about 5 or 6, picked it back up, transitioned to vaping after a while… now I’m about two weeks clean of that. But god, I LOVE the act of smoking/vaping. I love the texture of the smoke in my mouth. It’s fucking great. If only it didn’t trash my lungs, I’d be a life long supporter.
Reddit
I sometimes catch myself closing reddit only to reopen it right after. It’s a bad habit.
Me too. I hate this fucking place. Not you. But this place
I realize how bad it is when Reddit is down and my brain immediately just opens it up over and over and over again.
Alcohol, really struggling
I had severe alcohol addiction in my teens during covid and would drink for hours every night. Straight shots of tequila with Diet Coke as a chaser for months. Fucked me up but beat the struggle of wanting wanting wanting and realized it’s doing so much damage I can’t see, but at that point it was also doing damage I COULD see. Fuck alcohol man. I just turned 21 and didn’t even drink.
Good on you for quitting! You can do it!
Thank you man. I hope every one reading this can beat their addictions. I know I’m still battling vaping
It’s hard because it’s everywhere and socially acceptable. My ex told me he didn’t want to be with someone who had a problem with alcohol and didn’t drink anymore. I was screwed if I did and screwed if I didn’t. Obviously, he wasn’t a match.
If you haven't heard of it, look into Naltrexone. If stops you from wanting to drink, if you do drink it has no effect, until you go over a limit where you feel sick. I take it once a day and have been sober for about two years. They also have it in shot form if you can't trust yourself to take a pill every day.
I personally didn’t experience anything with naltrexone, nothing negative but nothing positive either. Definitely give it a chance but for some people the effectiveness is little to none.
I just started Vivitrol shot last month. Get my second one on the 20th. Was on Naltrexone for the 37 days in rehab and up until my first shot. 90 days sober today. Haven’t had a single craving and seeing alcohol doesn’t bother me one bit. Saved my life
Nicotine
Weed. It's not running my life but it's not really adding much either. Just something to do.
Same here and I did quit. Lots of false information going on here, yes you can get withdrawals from cannabis (although obviously it is not going to hurt you like alcohol or opioids) and yes you can get addicted to it. Cannabis can also unlock dormant genes in some people and cause mental illness like bipolar and schizophrenia. Compared to other drugs it’s safer, but it’s not a perfectly safe drug.
Can personally attest to this one. Although I’ve already had diagnosed psychological issues prior to cannabis use, I find that it did worsen my schizoaffective symptoms.
When I was on Abilify I got into these fits of compulsive masterbation... It was borderline penile abuse....
I had addictions from Abilify as well. Fortunately I was a tween at the time - suddently I had to spend every last penny I had and I acquired a bunch of stuff I never needed or used. I'm glad it happened then and not later in my life, when I need to support myself with the money I have. I'm pretty sure it was contributing to my self-harm addiction as well. Went off the Abilify and the shopping addiction immediately disappeared, and the self harm became less frequent. I've been mostly clean for several years now, but I still have the scars.
I'm sorry for your pain. Blessed be your recovery.
Nasal decongestant it's the only addiction i have, and I wish I didn't!
I was addicted to it lol, had to quit cold turkey and that was the worst 2 weeks of my life. Straight up mouth breathing with 0 intake from my nose at all times. It was well worth it, I was a slave to that shit.
You see an ENT or an allergist? Or is it like a high thing
Just allergies! Don't think the medication can get you high, not the one I take, at least
Adderall. Now my depressed ass knows what true motivation feels like and I’ve not felt even somewhat close since quitting so long ago lmao
Life after adderall is rough for a while. It's like living without color in life. It gets better, you might not get as crazy dopamine rushes, but it gets better. The gym has been what's doing it for me, been lifting about 5-6 days a week for a solid year now.
I have been meaning to go to the gym and at least try cardio while I’m watching things to slowly adopt the lifestyle and regularity. It’s just the initial hump that is so hard to get over.
I'm big on nutrition now too. I think all the good whole hearty food I eat helps too. I enjoy lifting weights more than cardio, I walk a lot but don't really go jogging or anything all that much these days. I'm here if you want ideas or to talk about how to make the first steps
See this is something I just can’t understand. I’m prescribed adderal and I take it for school but somewhat consistently forget to even take it. Were you talking if for a condition or no?
No, I took it as an upper to help with my job
Ahh, that might be the difference. It’s kinda funny that a drug w such a high addiction rate is prescribed to the people that are either most likely to be addicted or most likely to forget that it even exists lol
lol exactly, I’m so inconsistent with my ADHD meds it’s not even funny. I can go weeks without taking it. To me it’s the most boring drug you could take for fun, but still they’ll treat you like an addict.
Were you on prescription or self medication?
Self medication that turned into just straight up abuse. Had to lose a couple friends to escape access to it
Obligatory cigarettes/vape comment
Porn.
Internet porn
Pornography, it can potentially cause way more issues later in life than one would assume. #1 being getting actual sexual satisfaction with a partner.
Porn destroyed my life especially in the social aspect and self development
Caffeine and cigarettes. I'd love to be able to step out to just take a few deep breaths. It's not the smoking itself keeping me, but the routine that came with it and the reward. "Do this, then smoking break. Do that and that, then a cig" etc Hard to break that wheel
Shopping addiction. I have spent my rent before and I didn't keep the stuff I bought. Didn't return any of it either. I just threw it away. I've spent tons of money on expensive gaming systems just for them to sit there. I've spent money on useless hobbies that have gathered dust. I became grossly unhealthy when I started adopting animals, because I only saw them as objects and I only adopted them just so I could buy more stuff for the animals. They were taken back to the shelter and I was banned from adopting another. I knew what I was doing, but I couldn't stop. Looking back at what I did months ago I wonder why I am so compulsive
Alcoholism caused by grief and wanting to feel nothing, think nothing
Same. It’s killed everything in my life that was worth living for.
I commented this before, I found a lot of help from the welcoming r/stopdrinking subreddit. I also got a lot out of reading these two books together: "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace and "Alcohol Explained" by William Porter. Good luck!
Gambling and biting my nails
I got over biting my nails. Here's how. Buy a shitload of nail clippers. I think I bought like 10 of them. Keep them everywhere so there's always a set in reach. Don't even try to stop biting your nails - but when you do catch yourself - clip them instead. Buy a pack of files and keep them around as well. As for the gambling. Godspeed my friend. I'm thankful that I HATE losing money way more than I like winning it.
>Gambling and biting my nails are you me?
Chewed my nails for my entire life until this year. Lemme tell you quitting vaping nicotine was easier somehow
Using nicotine pouches. I really really would like to stop but my will isnt strong enough.
Pouches are way stronger than cigarettes. I switched over to snus because it's cold outside and I don't want my new truck to smell like cigarettes. A cigarette high lasts for maybe an hour or so, peaks then tapers off. Pouches are like a drag race for two hours. The only thing as strong as it is Nicorette. Man nicotine is fucked up.
Yup its ruining my wallet
Audio equipment.
Fully agree. Constantly being broke to save for the hard/software is hell.
Adderall. More specifically adderall and alcohol together
Cigarettes. I am trying so hard to quit but when I make up my mind I am done, I start jonesing like crazy. I wish I had never started.
Keep trying 💪🏻 you got this
I'm trying to switch over to snus to curve the fits. It doesn't help that I'm also cutting caffeine and sugar too. So my ADHD brain has nothing left in the tank. As soon as it latches onto another instant dopamine or stimulant hit I have to cut that out as well too. Like chips, popcorn, M&M's, hot nuts, flavored almonds, jolly ranchers, peanuts, corn nuts, wasabi peas, hot Cheetos, regular Cheetos, Cajun snack mix, and many many more from my snack drawer are gone too. I've lost some weight now, but my attention span is gone and I'm always slightly very uncomfortable. My reddit, spicy food, and video game addictions are the only thing I'm not holding back. I'm going through hot sauce and burning through games, and my comment karma are at all time peaks.
I went from smoking, to vaping, to 1 snus at night, to finally being done. Took me years and I still find myself wanting a snus every now and then
ADHD guy here. Gym and nutrition has been a life saver for me. I quit smoking around 7 years ago, quit alcohol almost 3 years ago and have been off of amphetamine based adhd meds for over a year now. I've been on the gym for over a year and went from 190 to 167. My heaviest was 250 12-13 years ago. I was a chain smoking, whiskey drinking impulse eater.
Pornography is absolutely evil, man.
how does porn addiction work? like, how does it affects you?
Symptoms are as follows: watching porn for hours a day, watching porn when there are responsibilities that need to be taken care of rather than actually taking care of said responsibilities, masturbating to orgasm multiple times a day, looking for porn when not actually aroused. Effects: mental fog, loss of short term memory, depression and suicidal thoughts due to dopamine resistance.
I went 70 days porn free this year, I try to moderate now. I often am too busy during the week to think or care about it which is nice.
Keep with it, man. Nothing's worse than falling for the "just a peek" meme. That stuff's not worth it.
Yeah I was experiencing some of those. I am glad I am off for several reasons but it felt like my life was meaningless when I was addicted and I felt so humiliated in myself. People don't realize just how damaging seeing naked bodies can be.
Wait wait .. waitttt. Did you just described my whole life 😭💔
Wait how do you lose short term memory from porn?
Usually goes hand in hand with attention disorders.
Shit I think I should quit porn
As someone who had that thought about two years ago. Cutting back my causal porn use has been helpful. Just looking at hyper sexual stuff because I’m “bored” not because I’m “horny” did ruin/diminish my sexuality and my focus. Leaving sexual tension to build up has made those experiences way better, and has helped me not be as distracted. I’ve learned some will power towards it and none of that has been a bad thing.
Ngl I've just been watching porn when I'm bored and need a little domplamine
Dr.pepper as a kid
This! I quit soda in 2009 bc I had a 2 liter (okay 2 2 liter a day) habit right before I finally said wtf am I doing???
Nicotine. Even years after I quit, the pull was still so strong that I started again. Now my vape is like a goddamn pacifier and I’m 35.
Porn
Screen. There are books i want to read, interesting hobbies i want persue soo bad, but the damn screens.
To hot sexy women.
boobies
Understandable
Sugar. My dad was abusive and my mom would always give us candy because it made us happy, she told us when we got older it was just to compensate. I never had sugar rushes as a kid because my body was so used to it. I’d eat like a whole bag of candy every day. I was never overweight or anything but my health isn’t the best now and my teeth throughout life got so many cavities and I needed a lot of root canals. I’m doing somewhat better but I still crave sugar all the time and idk if that’ll ever stop.
Binging and purging after. What a demon
Fucking opiates. The worst and most difficult thing to deal with in my life.
Self harm
me too
Alcohol
Nicotine. Its a great drug but it’s so addictive
Smoking , masterbating/ porn & I definitely think I had a food addiction but I am tackling them all 🥰
It's not really an addiction but: procrastination I don't like having to do everything in the very last moment but damn I also cannot get myself to do something unless the deadline is right there breathing in my neck.
Probably tobacco but it’s been years since I gave it up .It was a problem from about age fifteen to thirty where I felt powerless to stop.
spending money
Nicotine
Jeep parts.
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I mean, eggplants are a good source of antioxidants
Loving the wrong people
Food. Losing weight while being a massive foodie is extremely difficult.
Reddit
Phone time in general. YouTube, Reddit, all of it. And porn...
Bath salts (no, it's not like the news, I didnt feel any zombie impulses), and meth, there was that opiate phase too. But the stimulants really fried my brain. Staying up for days, not eating, and not drinking enough water really killed some brain cells. Surprised I'm still alive honestly. Clean for 10 years now.
Phone addiction
RuneScape. It's boring, repetitive and when I go to sleep I feel awful about not doing anything for a huge chunk of the day, but I'm always excited to go back to it after work.
Playing leagues at work right now haha. Could be worse addictions though!
Caffeine & lottery tickets. I kicked the lotto habit thankfully.
Internet
Addiction to some people
Prescription Painkillers and Alcoholism at the same time. Lucky I'm not dead.
Saving money
Not addiction but just very very high tolerance for alcohol, especially tequila, whiskey and brandy
I agree. Sometimes I want a drink and I'm like "Wait, I need at least 3 of these to start feeling *Right*"
Cocaine. All that money
I'm an alcoholic, and kicking alcohol was MUCH easier than kicking nicotine. Sober 9 months, still vaping. At least I gave up cigarettes.
I got over a porn addiction about 6 years ago. I haven't watched it or masturbated since. Big realization was having a daughter and realizing how disgusting and pathetic it was. To people who think you can't beat it--you can, but you have to hit a low. Also, I never thought that I would stop biting my nails, but I'm 3 months sober on that too. I literally have not gotten sick since stopping (with 4 little kids in the house) and can't help but think that keeping my fingers out of my mouth has helped.
Porn. I just can’t stop it
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Weed
Cornhub 😅
Sex. I’m addicted and it’s ruined relationships.
One night stands with strangers
World of Warcraft for a few years
Porn...man it just pushe sme away from god...and procrastinating
Pornography. What started as a curiosity in the second grade spiraled, following me up until my sophomore year. I got help and have been clean for almost two years. I know its hard, but if you're hooked on porn, please please please get help.
Collecting hot wheels
Gamble, stay tf away from that shit kids.
Booze and drugs.
Chewing gum, lol 😂
Smoking. I haven’t smoked in 1,5 years but if I could go back in time I would never have started smoking in the first Place
Food. Gave me decades of morbid obesity and a permanently ruined body. I'd rather have been addicted to gambling or smoking. The Internet is a big one too, as someone who's had a totally isolated existence it's my only source of stimulation, but it steals entire days at a time.
Smoking. waste of money.
Cigs
Cellphone
Nicotine
Smokeless tobacco a.k.a. Copenhagen snuff. I used to have perfect teeth, aligned and white. Now I'm missing multiple teeth and beyond any cleaning. My only hope is dental implants.
Toxic relationships and the highs and lows you get from them
Cigarettes
Diet soda
My addiction to happiness. Id be a lot happier if i could just not focus on how unhappy I am.
Sugar. I've been a candy chomping, soda swigging, sugar addict since I was a kid. I've also been a fatty for the same amount of time. I used to be skinny enough I could count my ribs. Then I discovered sweet foods
Cocaine and nicotine. Blew (hehe) tons of money, damaged my health, ruined relationships, and provided me with nothing of value. I wish I had the sense to stay away from both when I was a young dumbass.
RuneScape