If only you could just have all of your bad habits suddenly become something that is good for you.  As you walk down the road of ending a lifelong addiction, life would be all good! 

My addiction to nicotine is really no big deal, as some would say.  It is not as catastrophic or dramatic as maybe, an addiction to serious drugs or alcohol, truth being as it is…an addiction is an addiction, no matter how small. 

Some addictions are acceptable- such as addicted to collecting baseball cards, collecting Shirley Temple dolls…those are healthy ones(unless you absolutely obsess about it, then you got a problem man…) We all have something we obsess about at some point in our lives, it’s in our nature as humans.  When do you cross the line from obsession to addiction?  It is my belief that there isn’t much difference, it is just what one person considers fun is different than someone else’s fun.  Can you say, there is one thing in your life that you really feel like your whole life would be different without it?  Add that thought concept with the physical characteristics of how your brain deals with chemicals/drugs we indulge in…and you got an addiction baby!

If you have ever experienced this or have someone in your life who has such a problem, time to pick it apart…

What this is…physical addiction…is something that can take a lifetime to quit, can ruin a lifetime, can take away a lifetime and end it prematurely.  If you don’t understand what it is, read this excerpt from Wikipedia…

Addiction

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This article is about the concept of addiction. For other uses, see Addiction (disambiguation).

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The term “addiction” is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction (e.g. alcoholism), video game addiction, crime, money, work addiction, compulsive overeating, problem gambling, computer addiction, nicotine addiction, pornography addiction, etc.

In medical terminology, an addictionis a chronic neurobiologic disorder that has genetic, psychosocial, and environmental dimensions and is characterized by one of the following: the continued use of a substance despite its detrimental effects, impaired control over the use of a drug (compulsive behavior), and preoccupation with a drug’s use for non-therapeutic purposes (i.e. craving the drug).^[1] Addiction is often accompanied the presence of deviant behaviors (for instance stealing money and forging prescriptions) that are used to obtain a drug.

Tolerance to a drug and physical dependence are not defining characteristics of addiction, although they typically accompany addiction to certain drugs. Tolerance is a pharmacologic phenomenon where the dose of a medication needs to be continually increase in order to maintain its desired effects.^[2]For instance, individuals with severe chronic pain taking opiate medications (like morphine) will need to continually increase the dose in order to maintain the drug’s analgesic (pain-relieving) effects. Physical dependence is also a pharmacologic property and means that if a certain drug is abruptly discontinued, an individual will experience certain characteristic withdrawal signs and symptoms.^[2]Many drugs used for therapeutic purposes produce withdrawal symptoms when abruptly stopped, for instance oral steroids, certain antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opiates.

However, common usage of the term addiction has spread to include psychological dependence. In this context, the term is used in drug addiction and substance abuse problems, but also refers to behaviors that are not generally recognized by the medical community as problems of addiction, such as compulsive overeating.

The term addiction is also sometimes applied to compulsions that are not substance-related, such as problem gambling and computer addiction. In these kinds of common usages, the term addiction is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences, as deemed by the user himself to his or her individual health, mental state or social life.

Wow…Pretty boring crap isn’t it?  And the addict is saying…’Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah…I know all that..’  Of course you do!  EVERYONE who partakes in the use of a physically addictive substance is fully aware of the consequences of their actions at the very moment they use the substance for the very first time!  FACT…unless of course, they came from Mars recently and knows nothing about the culture of the planet.   The only exception to this is children.  Young children, immature children, uneducated children…they are among the innocents of the tragedy of substance abuse.  They have no knowledge of it.  They deserve to remain innocent, not possible in the society we have today.  Their only hope is drug resistance education, if it will work for them.    You cannot keep them from it, it will be all around them soon enough.   

Anyone who wants to dispute this with me…c’mon, let’s go!  Funny part about all this, maybe not so funny…there are actual businesses out there that make money on our addictions, they know the human race won’t stop taking on addictive/obsessive/compulsive behaviors.   Cha Ching!

I said I was going to switch to a ‘natural’ cigarette.  God, that sounds odd.  I did, I bought what I consider to be my last packs of smokes.  So I spent a few bucks more and bought the ones with no additives (I won’t name names, won’t give them credit for it, they still make cigarettes- there is just as much money to be made in computer stocks).  It is amazing the difference between the old one and the new one.  The new one, I feel like smoking half of it is fine.  Old one, I wanted to smoke the whole damn thing!

So now it’s down to 6, my bloodstream is increasing it’s pressure from knowing that I will have NOTHING to cope with, nothing to decompress with.  I’m sorry but you cannot have sex all day…that’s not the solution.  6 is an important number because that means the only ones left for the day are the comfort ones.  You know, the one you smoke after a meal, the one you smoke with the cup of coffee….3 meals…3 cups of coffee…none left.  Tick, tick, tick, cannot wait to see how I do today. 

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