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The Easiest Way To Overcome One Addiction

The Easiest Way To Overcome One Addiction

Is to pick up another Addiction - do you agree or disagree - It is what I heard.

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Well, that's one of the most silliest thing I ever heard. You may overcome one but you are getting involve with another! What's the difference then?

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Well, I had/have a bad habit of biting my nails. I did it since I was 8yrs old and its, admittedly, a terrible habit;-(

For years my mother and friends have been telling me to stop. They bought me soo many herbs...I never did. One day, I told myself, in a very non-chalant way, that I was gonna stop. And I did!
This is the advice I give to all my friends who smoke....don't order yourself to do it and don't tell anyone that you're going to either. Don't make it a big deal..if you do that, there will be more pressure on you to stop. Instead, make a silent note to yourself not to do it. Its like reverse psychology. Make a little promise, act like it's not a big deal and don't make yourself answerable to people who will question your moves.

Well..this is my way of doing things. Hope it works for someone out there!

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What you heard is correct. Another way to look at this from a purely geometric perspective is "the shortest distance between two given points" defines basic systematic efficiency.. The issue you raise is naturally one that begs the question. Is this advisable or healthy? The answer depends. It depends on whether you are using the new addictive behavior as a temporary buffer to facilitate the subconscious demise of the primary addiction you're actively shedding. For instance,

I am an Alcoholic (I really am). The rest here is hypothetical. My sponsor told me that "no matter what, don't drink, even if your butt falls off" So, along with my personal commitment to a 90 meetings in 90 days regiment, I went out and became pre-occupied with my new found addiction to radio controlled aircraft.

"It's so addictive, it's all I want to do in my free time" "It's so cool!"

People with addictions have addictive personalities. Even if you were to submit yourself to a life of denial in a Zen Buddhist monastery, you would merely be fueling a new found addiction to service and the emptying of one self.

Naturally one cannot just substitute one addiction for another and hope to gain more balance or peace of mind. It helps to remember that the addiction you seek to eliminate within your life can only be overcome through a period of specific abstinence from it. We NEVER stop being addicted to whatever we are addicted to. What we are doing within that initial period of abstinence is retraining the mind. Common sense dictates that there is a huge difference between replacing your addiction to alcohol with gambling as opposed to replacing said addiction with tropical fish. There is nothing wrong with healthy addictive behavior and in fact it's often sited by various social markers as "driven" behavior. It's incredibly important to become happy with who and what we are by nature. We all know the disillusionment, frustration and anguish that accompanies the "changing of the leopard's spots" It cannot be done. I am happy to be me. I hope you are too.

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Addiction is one of the hardest things to overcome. But there are many ways to overcome it. The easiest way from my expirience is to tell someone who you really trust. Someone you can call any day or night 24,7 to talk to. Just do that, talk. Its one of the easiest things to do. When you have an urge to start doing whatever it is your addicted to just call the person who you trust. they can talk you through whatever your going through. addictions take time to overcome. its not a simple thing to do. you have to change your life. the people you hang out with. if they encourage you to repeat an addiction they are not a good influence. you have to have a whole change of heart about yourself and the world.

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I have never thought about it like that before, good perspective and it gives merit to what Gossip said she heard. Unfortunately it seems some choose a 'lesser evil', it is good that you did not and found peace in flying minature planes.

Rather off topic, but... We have a remote control section here. You should check it out and add your input: Remote Control Board

Cookie and Kacy both talk about the down play method of telling no one or very few trusted people, however I have found that most psychologist talk about making it as public as possible and talk about how well you are doing, because you DO want to let everyone know how well you are doing so they in turn become supporters of your achievement.

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I agree, addicted persons have "addictive personalities." We tend to get hooked more easily than other personality types on many things. However, I disagree that we can "never" stop being addicted to our addictions. The whole point of retraining our brains and changing our lifestyles is to do just that. I've done it with both smoking and drinking, and I know others who have also. In my opinion, those who tend to fail at this are those who don't change their lives enough. I once moved 1,000 miles away to get clear of the past!

One of the many ways recovery groups do that is to replace the addiction with religion. Lots of "born again" folks amongst the rehab population. (I think there's another thread about this in the board somewhere.)

If the new behavior is positive, I don't see any reason that this is a negative aspect of addiction resolution.

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Don't get me wrong but I totally disagree that addictive persons have addictive personalities.
First because I don't believe in "addictive persons". Only if you are talking about someone that is very interesting.

An addiction is 90% in our brain. Last time I checked, we all have a brain(I think... , therefore we can all become addicted to something.
In fact, some say that every single person is addicted to something, usually more than one!

Small things, big things, whatever. It's usually some kind of ritual that helps us get thru the day or re-stablish focus.
It only hurts us if our health starts to degrade as a consequence to the addiction.

And in that case, it's just like leaving an old Love...it's hard, but probably it's a bad idea to just get another to "get over" the first.


I think.