Ever had an addiction?

Temptamperu

Coke, Opiates, Nicotien and alcohol. Kicked everything bar the smokes.

Duggy747

Pizza

Glorious, glorious pizza.

I don't eat it all the time, do balance out my eating habits with cooking healthy dinners but I just love a good greasy pizza with a load of pepperoni and red onion slopped on top.............at least once or twice a week :pac:

Om nom nom.

Temptamperu

Duggy747 wrote: »

Pizza

Glorious, glorious pizza.

I don't eat it all the time, do balance out my eating habits with cooking healthy dinners but I just love a good greasy pizza with a load of pepperoni and red onion slopped on top.............at least once or twice a week :pac:

Om nom nom.

Pizza is a vegetable, according to the Yanks eat up Duggy, Eat the f**k up

KTRIC

Meth

Johnny Bitte

Solpadine, for a couple of months would be going to 4-5 chemists every month to stock up.
The stuff was lethal, eating my insides and still couldnt stop.
Would be watching the clock for the 4 hours limit to pass to take the next 2.
When finally gave them up spent 2 weeks with my stomach in bits and some serious headaches.

The smokes too, a few weeks on the patches and I was free, but was some whore to be around for the first couple of weeks.

Bad Panda

Cigarettes. Gave up on NYE. Haven't smoked since.

Used to be a little too fond of a p!ss up is all ,but I've knocked those on the head too..bar the odd occasion.

Took coke a few times and just wanted more and more...I quickly copped on.

Kevo

Mississippi Mud pie yoghurts

cosanostra

Looking back I went through a phase of being an alcoholic where I was pretty much eternally drunk for the best part of a year but sorted all that out and I can now choose when I want a drink, I was more mentally addicted to alcohol than physically.

Johnny Foreigner

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstacy n alcohol

Ecstacy is not addictive.
I dropped my first E 20 years ago aged 15. Never craved it ever.

Johnny Foreigner

davet82 wrote: »

crack cocaine

Crack is the worst addiction of them all.
A good friend of mine is currently doing time for his crack habit.
He just couldn't stop tooting on the devils pipe.
Reminds me of this classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwrleVGZKG8
True lyrics.

Johnny Foreigner

danslevent wrote: »

Tea, so I suppose caffeine. I only started drinking it when I was 18 but now I just love it so much. Any time I'm writing essay I have to have a big thermos of it and sip away throughout, makes a lot of things bearable! Can't drink it after eight or so in the evening though, otherwise I can't sleep!

Barry's Gold Blend. More addictive than crack.

we'llallhavetea_old

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

Ecstacy is not addictive.
I dropped my first E 20 years ago aged 15. Never craved it ever.

what about c-c-c-c-c-cocaine?

:pac:

Johnny Foreigner

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Probably sugar in its many forms at some stage. The insulin roller coaster is a harsh ride.

I gave up sugar 2 years ago. Its very hard as many foods contain sugar.
It did me good though, my teeth are in much better condition now.
I also lost some weight.
It took me 2 weeks to get used to the taste of tea without sugar, but now I prefer it and couldn't go back to taking sugar.

Seachmall

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

Ecstacy is not addictive.
I dropped my first E 20 years ago aged 15. Never craved it ever.

I'm addicted to love.
Ecstasy makes me love.
Therefore, I'm addicted to ecstasy.

smash

cloptrop wrote: »

Drink smokes , rock n roll music , internet , tribalwars.

You sounded kind of cool until that last part... :pac:

Johnny Foreigner

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

what about c-c-c-c-c-cocaine?

:pac:

Cocaine is highly addictive.
This classic sums it up nicely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjw7m-BKmQ8
One of the reasons I never got involved with supplying it over the years.
I dealt, imported, and supplied E for 18 years.
But never crack, coke, or heroin; despite intense pressure being put on me from further up the supply chain.
In the early days I was supplying around 5200 tablets per year. But the E users weren't by any means addicted in the way a Crack or Heroin user is. Physically dependent with withdrawal cravings.
I wouldn't supply anyone with product that I wouldn't be confident in giving my closest friends and family.

M cebee

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

Cocaine is highly addictive.
This classic sums it up nicely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjw7m-BKmQ8
One of the reasons I never got involved with supplying it over the years.
I dealt, imported, and supplied E for 18 years.
But never crack, coke, or heroin; despite intense pressure being put on me from further up the supply chain.
In the early days I was supplying around 5200 tablets per year. But the E users weren't by any means addicted in the way a Crack or Heroin user is. Physically dependent with withdrawal cravings.
I wouldn't supply anyone with product that I wouldn't be confident in giving my closest friends and family.

haha:pac:

did you get approval from the irish medicines board or what

Seachmall

M cebee wrote: »

haha:pac:

did you get approval from the irish medicines board or what

Ecstasy is one of the safer drugs in that there's a huge community that warn of contaminated pills and, most importantly, you can test them yourself for the most common contaminants quite cheaply and reliably.

As long as you know and trust your supplier, test each purchase and never buy in-club you're pretty damn safe.

The people who you hear about going to hospital after taking E are people who don't know what they're doing and are simply victims of non-regulation.

c_man

Yeah, pulling myself asunder.

Jaxxy

Smokes. I'm still not off them, but I'll get there.
Diet Coke. Have to drink it every day, though I have been cutting down a lot.
Chocolate. Same as above.
The Old Republic. I might go a few days without playing it but once I start it's bye bye sleep.

I never found any "illegal" drug I tried to be particularly addictive. Some are what I'd call "greedy" drugs, cocaine for example, but it was never something I craved afterward. I'd put alcohol in the same bracket too, it's something that has lost a lot of appeal for me of late. The comedown just isn't worth it. And yes, alcohol can give you a proper comedown!

Chuck Stone

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstacy n alcohol

I'd imagine Valium is one of the hardest to access is it?

MickySticks

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'd imagine Valium is one of the hardest to access is it?

Nah... that'd be Viagra.

foxyboxer

Rollerblading.

Storminateacup

Used to use a lot of coke when I was younger. I was flat out on it for almost 2 years, don't think Id say I was addicted though. I stopped using it without a problem and while I would like to do it again, I know I wouldn't touch it ever again. Have been in positions where it's been readily available and where I've been very drunk - and have been able to refuse it.

Don't drink tea coffee and don't smoke...

So, no addictions.

1hnr79jr65

Curry chips.
Ham and pringle sambos.
Strawberry swissroll.
Wispa bars.
Xbox.
Eatin pussy.

Not all necessary in that order

mightysurveyor

Ditto on the coke. I was akin to the Cookie Monster for a long while. Ruined relationships, friendships, bank balances during that time.

Probably nine months on and haven't even seen or smelled a bit of dusty showbiz!!

Immaculate Pasta

I used to be addicted to chocolate. Specifically Toblerone. I would wake up in the night and eat an entire Toblerone. And I don't mean a small one, I mean a medium sized one :cool:

yoyo

I suppose Diet Coke, drink a fair amount of it everyday. Used to drink alcohol daily for nearly 2 years I'd say, cut back on that a fair amount. Wouldn't say I was addicted to it, but did get into a "routine" so to speak.

Nick

Raditub

my addictions consist of chocolate and white wine Think i can handle them so far!!! :P

AngryBollix

Big hairy fanny

AngryBollix

Squirt porn

Jimoslimos

Jaffa Cakes.....used to go through a pack a day many years ago.

cloptrop

smash wrote: »

You sounded kind of cool until that last part... :pac:

youd be surprised how much of a hold tribalwars can get on you. I wasted two years of my life sat in me bed playing a stupid game . I really had to give up the computer altogether to get away from it. I have given up smokes countless times but I found tribalwars worse. I subbed it with drink though so its all cool now. glug glug.

Adhamh

****in' Pringles.

Da Shins Kelly

Cigarettes only. I'd worry sometimes that I could have the potential to be an alcoholic as I like to drink quite a bit, and very rarely do it half-heartedly - when I drink I really go for it. I don't think I could be classed as such right now though. Not by Irish standards anyway.

With people who become addicted to stuff like Valium or other prescription medication, I often wonder how they get their hands on such stuff so regularly to become addicted? I can't imagine it's that easily come by, or maybe I'm just naive?

cloptrop

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Cigarettes only. I'd worry sometimes that I could have the potential to be an alcoholic as I like to drink quite a bit, and very rarely do it half-heartedly - when I drink I really go for it. I don't think I could be classed as such right now though. Not by Irish standards anyway.

With people who become addicted to stuff like Valium or other prescription medication, I often wonder how they get their hands on such stuff so regularly to become addicted? I can't imagine it's that easily come by, or maybe I'm just naive?

I once used to fight the drink problem and worry about it, I drink most nights now , not pissed out of it or anything but I find it hard to sleep when sober. well thats my excuse anyway.
If you go your doctor and say you cant sleep you get sleepers. Its that easy . If you have the 60 euro you can go to a couple of gps at a time, they dont ask for ID .
If your on the medical card you go to your GP and say one a night doesnt do you anymore , they usually give you two a night.
If all else fails you can buy them for about a euro a pop off any self respecting tablet dealer.

blatantrereg

Was addicted to cigarettes

People who say they do nothing for you have never tried quitting smoking.
Hunger, fatigue, constipation, agitation, poor concentration - all these can be addressed by simply having a cigarette. Addressing the actual causes of these things, rather than overriding the immediate effects with nicotine - well that usually requires more effort, planning and time, with less immediate results.

I was quite strongly addicted. Felt like I would pass out sometimes when I was not smoking them, because I had used them to regulate my blood sugar so much. Emotions were haywire and ability to concentrate was barely existent.

However beating the physical addiction is nothing compared to the psychological rewiring you need to achieve to stop craving them, when particular things set you off.
People are often dismissive of psychological addictions. It's arrogant and silly - they can be more damning than physical ones. E and pot are good examples of substances people sometimes develop very serious psychological dependencies on.

M cebee

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Cigarettes only. I'd worry sometimes that I could have the potential to be an alcoholic as I like to drink quite a bit, and very rarely do it half-heartedly - when I drink I really go for it. I don't think I could be classed as such right now though. Not by Irish standards anyway.

With people who become addicted to stuff like Valium or other prescription medication, I often wonder how they get their hands on such stuff so regularly to become addicted? I can't imagine it's that easily come by, or maybe I'm just naive?

they can be readily available if youre involved in dispensing or care type work

Westernman

I addicted to discovering what im addicted to and working to break these addictions.

I think sugar is the hardest to break

ringadingding

Addicted to the internet, find myself checking websites on my phone every few minutes, it seems to be one of those under the radar addictions, as it can be done in conjunction with other tasks.

I quit facebook, deleted my account permanently, lasted 3 months and realised I was still spending as much time on the internet, just on other sites.
So i opened a new account, and it took a matter of hours to refriend everyone and start again where i'd left off.

Facebook must have kept some of my data, even though I had perma deleted my old account and opened a brand new one, as they suggested friends they would have no right or reason for suggesting.......

KKkitty

Alcohol for about 6 years. If I was working late I'd panic about finishing early enough to make the pub or off licence. I slept around during that time and used to be anyones. Thought I was having a good time but deep down my self esteem was low. Also got into drugs then. Mostly hash but got into cocaine and speed. Took ecstasy one night but didn't like the effects of it. Can't kick the cigarettes yet. Wish I could.

KKkitty

Alcohol for about 6 years. If I was working late I'd panic about finishing early enough to make the pub or off licence. I slept around during that time and used to be anyones. Thought I was having a good time but deep down my self esteem was low. Also got into drugs then. Mostly hash but got into cocaine and speed. Took ecstasy one night but didn't like the effects of it. Can't kick the cigarettes yet. Wish I could.

Truley

Internet and sugar

EGAR

Smoking . Can't kick the habit but I will - one day...

Swampy

Coffee

Wattle

Gee sandwiches