In some ways the hardest, but in many, the easiest to defeat Tobacco is the beginning and the end of addiction for many. Most of us started in our early years, for who knows why. Was it an act of rebellion? Be cool? Trying to fit in? Maybe someone we looked up to was a …
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breaking the habit
This is the most important aspect of changing lifestyle addictions. The habitual motion of using hands for smoking. The timing of when you smoke, or when you play out any other habitual action in life. The ritual of when you drink. When you smoke. How you drink, and how you drink. Maybe how the two …
marijuana
The first time I smoked marijuana it didn’t do much. I was bored, disaffected, and didn’t really understand the appeal. But I was young, and the opportunity was sure to arrive again. The 2nd time I smoked marijuana, I got mind-blowingly high and it was horrible. My throat was burnt, my head was spinning, my …
Everything we thought we know about addiction is wrong
gambling
I learnt that you can be addicted to poker machines
the revelation
The moment I realized I had control
The Addiction Paradox 