I find I get quite noticeably cranky after about six waking hours with a cigarette. I had this ratified the other day when my girlfriend told me 'whenever you get all cranky, the first thing I do is get you a cigarette, workings 9 out of 10 times......... dearest'.

I was a bit taken aback, I had a smoke and was alright.

I can quit all the various drugs fairly easily,the problem is that i can't quit drugs completely.

As long as i have some chemical distraction i can get through the day, but get super anxious and frustrated if i don't have something, fortunately this is extremely rare.

i LOVE gettin wasted but its a hard and sumtimes harsh addiction

I got over most addictions, but now I am drinking a lot. So I guess that's a new one.

It's like Anthony Bourdain says, you never truly get over an addiction, you just move onto the next one.

i'm also a somewhat shopaholic

We need an Anthony Bourdain appreciation thread. That dude seems like a genuinely cool motherf*cker. He's just as happy dining at a 5-star restaurant in NYC as he is riding a mountain goat to Tibet to sip tea with a shaman.

I'm a shopaholic too, albeit I can't afford it.

i used to have a credit card, cannot control my spending

end up with a 500 quid or so credit at the end of every month

I'm in roughly £260 debt :love: I spent it all on shyte.

That's not bad actually. I was over $50K in debt for all my medical bills, but I was able to get most of it forgiven. I need to start paying it forward, because that was a very big deal to me.

That's understandable. You have to pay for health care. I don't, at all.

I think I might be spiralling into an online shopping addiction. The ither day I saw Arkham Asylum for £3.75 on Steam and bought it, even though I knew it was never going to work on my computer anyway, not even mentioning that I've spent pretty much all my money on Valvey goodness.

Nothing because I am more dry and passionless than dead vagina.

Caffeine,meaning I'm rarely asleep before 4am.

now. I've experienced overindulgence in ALL categories in the poll but i can't say I am truely addicted to anything except cigarettes

Obsessive sometimes but never really addicted to anything.

cigs.

alochol lsd weed ecstasy I can do and stop doing for a while. Alochol I just like using to loosen up a bit. Use it once a week - 2 times a week.

Alcohol.

I think it's 2 weeks or so without ciggs now. I stopped counting days.
Still on that vapor tip, so I guess I'm still addicted to the habit, but at least it isn't killing me.

Tobacco, and possibly weed. I'm an insomniac, and for the last month have been using weed almost every night to actually fall asleep. It's got to the point where if I don't have a zoot in the early hours I become anxious and actually scared of lying in bed awake amidst pitch black silence. It's a totally vicious circle, or at least it feels like one.

As for alcohol, my dad was an alcoholic, and in a way I have him to thank for the fact that I'll never abuse the stuff. It can have absolutely atrocious consequences for not only the user, but those around them too.

I've dabbled with various other drugs, but never developed an attachment to them.

Good for you Freebase. I wish I had the will power to just quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey.

I have come to realize myself, just like with most all addictions. Even if I beat the habit on my own, I might still crave the desire from time to time, or even maybe for the rest of my life. :rolleyes: Cigarettes are such a nasty habit!

Honestly, it's eerie how much similarity I can see here.

I was in the same boat a few months ago, I abruptly stopped smoking weed and couldn't sleep at all for about a month. Later ended up having a few severe panic attacks that landed me in the hospital & got hooked on Ativan in the process. Shit was so bad I had to withdraw for a semester and get my act together. I spent more time than I'm willing to divulge talking to mental health professionals about problems that didn't exist (apart from substance abuse issues).

Needless to say, it was a part of my life that I'm very much eager to not re-live. I still drink and smoke weed infrequently, but I'm never going to allow recreational pursuits govern my mental health again.

I'd say that I had a mild mental addiction to Marijuana for a while... but nothing particularly serious.

I've never been addicted to a substance, but right now I'm getting kind of addicted to looking for good guitar deals on eBay.

I've got a Watch list of around 15 guitars, including ones I like but not enough to buy. The positive in all this is that I research the different guitars and learn about their pickups, wiring, and tone, but I'm letting eBay interfere with my sleep! I'm letting the search for "perfect" things become more important than doing things (like practice my current guitars).

Help me, someone! I'm getting addicted to eBay!!!

(But don't help me until my current guitar Watch list auctions have all ended) ;)

I'm addicted to addiction (now that's poetry).

I'm addicted to weed, even though they say you can't get addicted...maybe you can't get chemically reliant, but you can get addicted to anything. And I count on smoking it often so that's an addiction but I reckon I have it under control.

Addicted to tobacco but got it under control, probably addicted to coffee.

In general I've got an addictive personality so I get addicted to whatever I'm interested in, and then keep doing it until I get bored...

Dude I used to be the same. Try this - Don't sleep for 24 hours. You'll be so shattered that you can set yourself an earlier time to sleep and establish a more normal sleeping pattern. Then roll zoot during the day it's a reason to get up man

sex

I used to be addicted to opiates, and it was a hell of a ride. I only shot up twice, and a week after the second time when I was about to go even more downhill and shoot up regularly, I overdosed on a prescription cocktail filled with everything that I could get my hands on, but mostly Xanax, Vicoden, and antidepressants. My friend was with me and we had to go to the hospital and we both had to be resuscitated multiple times. It's pretty shocking to know that you've breached the other side and returned to tell the tale, but I was legally intoxicated for weeks after the overdose. After those weeks came to a close and I was just debilitated, I had get clean.

I still do drugs, mostly psychadellics, marijuana, alcohol, and other things in stressed moderation--only indulging in a splurge as the blue moon rises. I believe that I've escaped my addictions as a whole, so long as I don't relapse. Haven't touched any opiates since, and I'm feeling pretty happy about that. I don't believe that I'm addicted to the drugs that I still do, it's just that I greatly enjoy them. I've gone for weeks without any of them and was fine, so I think that I'm in the clear from the prowess of addiction :D.

Only things I'm addicted to now are beer and snus.
Haven't smoked a cigarette since August 15th of 2011. Some would say the snus is cheating, but f*ck you. It can't be as horrid as cigarettes. I certainly smell a lot better, at least.

I think this cracked article has some really great insight on addiction.

5 Life Lessons You Only Learn Through Quitting Smoking | Cracked.com

I can really understand a lot of the habitual and self delusion aspects of this article despite not smoking.

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Oh yeah and Im addicted to playing with my scalp. I do it whenever I get stressed. Its gotten better though I remember I used to like plucking out my hairs. Not sure what else. Maybe the computer sometimes but I can usually keep it in check when I need to or when im busy.

I have been hooked on so much ****, but never more than one or two things at a time. Started with over the counter sleep med. and slowly increased the dosage. I even started cutting myself. Then, when I was taking up around 30 pills, I decided to move to something stronger. Just kept taking progressively harder stuff that would make my mind stop for awhile. (I was dealing with bad **** at the time.) Last thing I was taking was Heroin. I didn't eat, just slept. I was down to 108 lbs. (I was 17, 6' tall). I was almost dead. Two close friends helped me through it and helped get me clean. I've been clean for 2 years on March 2.

Grats to you on your upcoming 2-years-sober anniversary :)

I quit smoking, I think it was in January 2005 or so. Or was it 2004? I started when I was 14 and smoked until I was 22 or so. I'm one of the most stubborn fuckers I know so as a feat of willpower, it wasn't hard. Yet, I loved to smoke and I still do .. I miss it and sometimes, I still smoke in my dreams. I never tried to kid myself into believing that I don't like smoking. By being firmly aware of how great I think it is, I always figured cutting down over time or allowing myself to smoke only at parties would only give me so many opportunities to start smoking more again so cold turkey and never again really seemed the best way to do it. I would advise other quitters to do the same.

I'm addicted to nicotine. I usually smoke during the day, and use an E-Cigarette at night when I'm at the house.

I wouldn't say I'm addicted to alcohol, but on the weekends i usually kill 12 beers.

I used to smoke a **** load of weed and do a lot of ecstasy. Dont think I was addicted, though. Maybe a little addicted to weed. It was very easy to overcome