What are your other vices/addictions?

[RainbowBabz]

It's almost implied that we all have some degree of a nicotine dependence, whether we're working to kick it or not. What else has its grips on you?

Personally... Coffee. Well, caffeine in general. Just now I made myself a cup of coffee... Except that I forgot to put in the stupid little K-cup first... So I made myself a cup of hot water and then proceeded to add creamer to it. Sighhhhh.
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[SingedVapor]

Well... I am one year clean from other stuff. For four years I was addicted to (bad stuff). So I have a lot of experience with addiction. It's my addictive personality that really gets me. I can get addicted to almost anything. Right now I'm pretty addicted to monster energy drinks (as bad as they are for me) and now I vent all my old addiction into tinkering with mods and such.

 

[jimkipila]

Also was addicted to bad things that are illegal along with cigarettes. I am clean from both! Now I'm addicted to xbox 360 and xbox One, Netflix, NHL. (Red wings) my girlfriend, ECF, and the vape world.


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[Elizabeth Baldwin]

Coffee and diet cokes. Diet cokes are bad for me but I love them.

 

[3mg Meniere]

A few centuries ago I was into the hippie lifestyle. About the only thing left was the cigs-- and naturally, once all my addictions collapsed into one, it was the most difficult to overcome. My religion requires moderate coffee use (another story). I don't drink pop. Fluid intake is a real problem, have recently started using those squirt flavor additives for water, since a pharmacist warned me off of Gatorade.

I am on my computer for much more time than I should, and have become rather reclusive because I have had difficulties getting my hearing aids retuned fast enough for progressive hearing loss. I also gave up crafts because my right thumb complains a lot when I use it too much. Recently got a cortisone shot, and it is much better, and got new hearing aids (fuschia!). Obamacare ROCKS! So reducing computertime and getting out and about more are priorities.

 

[RainbowBabz]

I too used to be into harder drugs. In fact when I first started vaping, I had some difficulty with craving other things because, to me, I feel that a vape hit feels more like a hit of crystal than a drag off a cigarette. But I held strong through that and have been clean for 3 1/2 years (October 17th will be the four year mark).

And we can count girlfriends as a vice??? Well damn. Add that one down too.
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[3mg Meniere]

And we can count girlfriends as a vice??? Well damn. Add that one down too.

I noticed that. I am phobic about romantic entanglements. Too many hurts, too much guilt.

 

[RainbowBabz]

Honestly the girl I'm with, I never wanted something serious with. But she lured me in. After my last relationship ended (and almost took my life with it, ex was a psychopath who tried to kill me over the girl she thought I was going to leave her for... Who has been her girlfriend since literally the day after I broke up with her...) I really didn't want to get attached to anyone else. But I guess that's how these things work.
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[3mg Meniere]

Most guys seem to want sex first, the friendship seems to only be a way to get the sex. My BMF is a priest!! What a relief!

 

[MWilli06]

Aside from pain killers like Vicodin and Percocet ( which I'm slowly getting clean!)
I'm addicted to caffeine, money, sex, good movies, etc lol. Pretty much anything that makes me happy I can get addicted to lol. I work more than anything. That's prob my biggest addiction... Money lol

 

[stillnotsmoking]

to me, I feel that a vape hit feels more like a hit of crystal than a drag off a cigarette.

Unfortunately I can agree with this, especially with unflavored juice (what I cape 99% of the time)...although that portion of my life is behind me I still struggle with that similarity sometimes.





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[dbeast64]

Lemme see.....

I've given up "recreational pharmaceuticals",excessive alcohol consumption and cigarettes....
6 pack last me 2 weeks,order my ADV's every 3 months and happy with the gear I have now but,a fogger may be in my future as soon as they get the version numbering under control.

 

[DuckGooseMan]

Soda. Down to 3-4 cans a week, instead of 4-5 cans a day

Aside from that, I think all my other addictions are harmless.. Star Wars, Pokemon, Dragon Age.. Yeaaaah

 

[RainbowBabz]

Unfortunately I can agree with this, especially with unflavored juice (what I cape 99% of the time)...although that portion of my life is behind me I still struggle with that similarity sometimes.





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glad to hear I'm not the only one.

 

[amoret]

Well, there's coffee, and books, and coffee, and books, and coffee...

 

[OtherBarry]

Yeah, drug dependence sucks but I just celebrated 3 years clean in may! Congrats to every one else too. In addition to the constant pursuet of the perfect vape (currently the Panzer topped with a dual parallel coiled origin v2) I am a super avid reader and an addicted longboarder. I recently started diy-ing those too. Strange, the outlets we find some times.

 

[RainbowBabz]

DIY longboard sounds awesome. I took a skateboarding class for PE in high school, and found that the long board was my comfort zone. Lol. I want to get back into it, my gf wants to get me back into it, but I'm terribly concerned that I'll make a fool of myself lol.
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[Cullin Kin]

3 years clean from bad stuff (painkillers). Currently addicted to Red Bull, going fast, modding, anything outside, and finding free time. Congrats to all of the others with clean time off bad stuff. What works for you? NA? CA? AA? LifeRing?

 

[EricRichter]

Don't have many vices. One of the big ones is probably junk food, although overall I keep a healthy diet. But damn do I have a taste for chips and other tasty, salty, terrible stuff! Good thing I'm naturally calm and relaxed. If I was a tense person, that salt would kill me...

 

[3mg Meniere]

other tasty, salty, terrible stuff! Good thing I'm naturally calm and relaxed. If I was a tense person, that salt would kill me...

My blood pressure has stabilized around normal since quitting smoking. I stay away from salt anyway because it triggers dizziness. Audiologist tells me that recent research indicates that whatever affects the heart also affects the ears.