Quit Smoking Withdrawal Symptoms When you want to quit smoking withdrawal symptoms often scare people out of quitting. When you engage in any behavior for a long time, it can be tough to change it. This is especially difficult if this behavior provides some sort of physiological addiction the way cigarettes do. Quit smoking withdrawal […]
Video Game Addiction & Our Obsession With Technology Video game addiction isn’t the first thing people think of when they think about addiction. Instead, it is a person who is abusing drugs and/or alcohol. However, an addiction that needs a lot more attention than it gets is internet addiction/video game addiction. The Diagnostic and Statistical […]
Shopping Addictions – Is it Really A Thing? Shopping addictions are definitely a thing! When I first got clean and sober, I started to spend much more money than before. Part of this was because I had more money because I wasn’t spending it on drugs and alcohol. The other part was that it was […]
Overcoming Sex Addiction Can Be Extremely Difficult Overcoming sex addiction comes with a lot of difficulties, but it is possible. All addictions come with a high level of stigma. Perhaps the most misunderstood and criticized of all is sex addiction, which many people do not believe to be a genuine addiction. Despite its inclusion in […]
When trying to figure out how to quit gambling, knowing the signs of gambling addiction can be very important. Gambling addiction has been around for a long time, but the explosion of the internet over the past few decades has created a new type of gambling – online gambling. Gambling has become something that you […]
What Do You Know About Glue Sniffing and Inhalant Abuse? What do you know about glue sniffing and inhalant abuse? I recently received a message from someone asking if I could post some information on inhalant abuse. Before I received this message, it hadn’t really crossed my mind to write anything about this topic. I […]
The Electronic Cigarettes Craze Some people claim to be using electronic cigarettes as a method to quit smoking, first switching to an e-cigarette and then cutting that out slowly. But there are things about these products that make them just as dangerous, or more dangerous, than real cigarettes. An e-cigarette does not contain tobacco, but […]
Are Eating Disorders an Addiction? Are eating disorders an addiction? There are many eating disorder facts to consider when thinking about this question. Is having an eating disorder really that different from having an addiction to drugs or alcohol? As a society, we still have a hard time empathizing with drug addicts and alcoholics. Many […]
There are other types of addictions besides drug and alcohol addiction. However, when people hear the word addiction, often the first thing they thing about is being addicted to drugs or alcohol. There are countless types of other addictions, including being addicted to technology, being addicted to shopping, or even being addicted to cigarettes. […]
