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What are you addicted to?

What have you tried to do to get rid of the addiction?

Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin music
Arguing that Pluto is a planet!

Coke No Sugar. I've stopped drinking it a few times and gotten headaches from the lack of caffeine. At work I drink tropical cordial and at the gym I drink water so it's not all bad I guess.

I'm addicted to work. I'm a workaholic.

Female validation can be pretty addicting to men. We can sure spend a lot of time chasing it.

Ridding the root cause of dependence over a coping mechanism (which can be anything -- drugs, alcohol, entertainment)

Higher inner tolerance and threshold for discomfort.
Gaining an upper natural baseline.

Greater stability in experiencing contrasts.
Not chasing 'feel good'.


Increasing estrogen in some cases.
Because higher estrogen meant less executive dysfunction symptoms associated with dopamine shortages.
Better if it's done consistently.

Better executive function meant better self regulation, which meant more control over addiction and lessening dependence, ultimately better shift over habits over time.

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Reading
Looking at kitten adoption ads
Ginger ale


I give up ginger ale for Lent.
That's about all.

Sugar....still running with that one.
Oxycodone.... Buprenorphine made kicking that pretty easy.
Nicotine.... wasn't too hard to kick when you start coughing up blood.
Cannabis....let's just call that self medication (although it is prescribed)
I didn't find it generated any cravings when detoxing, but after 50 years it makes sleeping possible
Coffee I can take or leave, but black tea I would find difficult giving up.

The only thing I've had a problem tapering from is amitriptyline.

I'm addicted to nicotine even though I haven't smoked in about 12 years. I used nicotine lozenges to quit smoking but I have never quit the nicotine lozenges. I'm sucking on them every day. But they're not harmful like smoking and I'm fine with them. I'm not currently trying to quit the lozenges.

I don't know if you can really be technically addicted to it, but I can't go a day without dark chocolate.

That's about it. I don't drink coffee, don't use drugs, rarely drink, and don't have obsessions I can't shake.

Nicotine. I no longer need tobacco but I can't get off the gum. So that's a lot safer but I resent the high price of gum.

On the few occasions I've had tobacco since quitting I find I now have an adverse reaction to nicotine.
Sweating, nausea, heart palpitations, dizziness.
It is definitely no longer an effort to avoid tobacco.
I see why it is used as insecticide