Quitting a habit

[Industrial Toys]

Just my take on it. Some people are more disciplined than others. They decide on something and they do it. No excuses! I think religion has nothing to do with it. Studies have shown that showing people the results of their behavior and addictions has little or no effect.

 

[Doofy]

Wish I could break the nasty habit of getting up early. I always wake around 4:00am and finally drag myself out of bed between 5:00 and 6:00am. Been retired for 13 years and have no reason to get up that early. I do enjoy the solitude at times.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Wish I could break the nasty habit of getting up tenish! And then, there's TBN. Neither, helps my productivity!

 

[YanmarFever]

People talk about going cold turkey, or using hypnosis, etc..or otherwise being able to train their brain ("reboot" it) from "addiction", to change their associations with the substance they're trying to quit.
Michael Pollen also has a new book out "How to Change Your Mind" which takes a scientific, research based, approach on effective drugs that "reboot" the brain, and are effective in stopping addiction, or treating trauma (PTSD, rape, etc..) but were abandoned in the 60's when their acceptance by the hippy counterculture made any valid research on them taboo.

I was once talking to a doctor friend about addiction. He said: "I don't believe in it. It's a made up word." That statement really stuck with me. I think it's true.

(Funny how if you make up a word, for a made up concept, or "condition", it somehow becomes a real "thing", but I digress. Consider how people are "addicted" to things that aren't even ingested: like gambling, or video games, or other behaviors. IMHO, it is totally a mental condition and very little to do with the cravings your body experiences.)

Sure, substance have an effect on your body, and your body has physiological cravings (for a while, until it adjusts as the levels in your body decrease), but are you saying your mind has no control?
B.S.!! I don't buy that. I believe in "free will" (or at least the illusion of it).


p.s. If I could only kick my sugar addiction. Now that stuff is really POISON!

I kicked the sugar out over 10 yrs ago, it took 2 weeks to get over the gotta have it feeling. I lost 7 lbs. and after 2 weeks, I felt like superman and had all the energy I needed.
About a year later I ate a sweet donut and it put me to sleep.
I call sugar the white plague now..

 

[Industrial Toys]

Reminds me. There is one sweet gooey butter cup waiting for me in the kitchen!:licking:

Curious, what my life would be like without sugar. SALT is something I can't fathome giving up.

 

[Doofy]

Reminds me. There is one sweet gooey butter cup waiting for me in the kitchen!:licking:

Curious, what my life would be like without sugar. SALT is something I can't fathome giving up.

I had to give up salt and it was harder than giving up Chew. Salt substitutes are nasty until you get used to them. Thought I never would and it took over a year.

 

[Bird]

2 lane,
We did the same thing, after years of smoking, we prayed, obeyed, and God did the rest, I did not even have withdrawals, in fact I hated cigarette smoke after that, they made me sick.
However my wife still likes the smell of smoke, but she hasn't smoked either in years. That was back in Sept of 1977

I've heard a lot of former smokers say the smoke makes them sick. Both my wife and I smoked for many years, and quit 11 and 12 years ago, but smelling others smoking just never bothered us. It used to be common in restaurants for them to ask if we wanted "smoking or nonsmoking" seating, and we usually told them either one is fine, although we will not be smoking. Dad smoked from long before I was born, my Mother never smoked, but said she liked the smell of it so it never bothered her for others to be smoking around her. In fact, she once told me that she liked the smell and the only reason she didn't smoke was because she didn't want the expense of buying cigarettes.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Remember how cool it was to smoke at your restaurant table, at your desk at work or best yet, on a train or AIRPLANE!? Almost better than SEX without worry of disease! The joys we had, that young people will never know or understand!

I haven't smoked for almost thirty years, but I can smell someone smoking on the highway, if they are in front of me with their window rolled down. I have passed them just to see if I was right. My lady friend smokes outside, and no matter whereI go, the smoke follows me.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I see addiction mostly as trying to ESCAPE from reality. Why, because many people, I guess, don't like their reality, but no one like to talk about that. So, best to focus on the addiction. The question is, why are people so damm unhappy?

One of the unfortunate things about alcohol is that you need more and more of the stuff to get high, and you can quit for years and go right back to that same same level of required booze!

🖒Very, very true. Slow "legal" suicide.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I've been told that kicking snuff is harder than almost anything.