What Bad Habits or Addictions Have You Overcome in Your Lifetime?

Ruth n Jersey said:
I have a very bad habit of cutting people off in mid sentence and then, finishing for them, what I think they are saying. Sometimes I even get it wrong! I don't know what makes me do that. I know it is rude and must be annoying. Most people are gracious enough to let it go. My son will say, will you just let me finish? I wish I would remember to shut my mouth until folks are done speaking. I'm trying, I really am.
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My husband and I both have this terrible habit and we don't just do it with each other but with everyone. We are trying to break ourselves of this. I think he started it and then I picked it up in self-defense but he won't admit it. :)
 

I suffered a back injury and got sent to a "pain specialist". He prescribed Norco, which is the same as Vicodin--a narcotic. I took the med for a long time and decided to quit. Nuts to being an addict said I. I had a new Rx of 90 pills, to be taken 4 x day. I started out with 3 a day, then cut back to two, and finally just one! Then I was free of that garbage! Hooray! I am very proud of that accomplishment! It wasn't even as hard as I had anticipated it to be.
 
I quit a 5 pack a day smoking habit on Nov.17th,1988. Cold turkey. Hubby quit his one pack a day habit two days later-if he hadn`t,I know I never could have stuck it out. Something I have just recently learned....my brother in law was just diagnosed with bladder cancer and apparently bladder cancer is found almost exclusively only in cigarette smokers. It`s the #1 cause of bladder cancer. We`ve all heard of it being the cause of lung cancer,throat cancer and emphysema and COPD,of course,but bladder cancer was a new one for me. My brother in law has smoked most of his life (he`s 78) and now has to quit-but we`ll see.
 
Peppermint Patty said:
I suffered a back injury and got sent to a "pain specialist". He prescribed Norco, which is the same as Vicodin--a narcotic. I took the med for a long time and decided to quit. Nuts to being an addict said I. I had a new Rx of 90 pills, to be taken 4 x day. I started out with 3 a day, then cut back to two, and finally just one! Then I was free of that garbage! Hooray! I am very proud of that accomplishment! It wasn't even as hard as I had anticipated it to be.
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Congrats Peppermint Patty! Opioids are powerful and produce dramatic effects, but are sooo hard to kick after using for a while.


vickyNightowl said:
Smoking but I'm a neww quitter,37 days today,cold turkey,congrats to all quitters!
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'grats vickyNightowl! :clap: Keep up the good fight! ;)


I'm five years clean & smokeless....was a long time coming but better late than never.

I quit using alcohol, be 10 years in June.
 
Work can be an addiction too. When I was young, I would work myself right out of some jobs. I would start at the bottom of the the ladder, and work myself from one department up to the next, until there was nowhere else to go. Then I would get bored and quit. I was always challenging myself to be better, which is of course futile, you just can't win that type of game.

It was only after I ended up running a large business that I learned to stop, but not before I took myself down to 90 pounds and had to spend a couple weeks at bed rest.
 
My first watch was a Cinderella watch with a blue band. I was so proud of it. Have had many over the years--one with diamonds around the face, Timexes, the Swatch, one Liberty Bell 1772-1976 bi-centennial, a couple better-made watches and one very pretty one for 35 yrs at the company I worked for. Some are in my jewelry box but I no longer wear them. Phone and car have clocks.
 
My wife would have said I was addicted to my Blackberry when we used them for work. An incoming message prompted a red light to flash on top of the device and I'd see it and check the message. I had quite a lot of responsibility, so I checked it all the time. It was hard to put it down at night and make time for us without interruption and it did cause problems.

Around this time I also had a problem with alcohol, not so much an addiction perhaps, but a really bad habit of self-medicating to get rid of the stress of the day. I finally sought help and stopped what had become a very dangerous health issue. Took over a year to feel better. Today I drink red wine, but that's it, and only in moderation. Never going back to the way it was before.
 
It looks like there are some nail biters here and I was one of them also. I stopped years ago but when I get nervous I bite and pick at the cuticle instead of the nail itself. Just as bad and unsightly, at times I injure the nail bed and it takes time for the nail to grow out correctly. I keep trying though.
 
Back in 1961 I woke up one morning with a collapsed lung. The intensity of the pain was unforgettable. I have never smoked since.

I find the less you are exposed to smoke, the more offensive it becomes.
 
Smoked, drank, did recreational drugs and partied for a short while when I was young, but quit that scene when still in my early 20s and got into healthy living.
 
I have been addicted to painkillers at times. The longest time was about a year and I could have continued to be prescribed them but I read they can greatly damage your kidneys. So, about 2 years ago cold turkey I quit them for good and it was very hard. I really craved that good feeling I got from them but just kept going each day until I was "unhooked". Now I know better than to want to be prescribed them any more. I take regular pain relievers now that are not addicting.
 
Ruthanne said:
I have been addicted to painkillers at times. The longest time was about a year and I could have continued to be prescribed them but I read they can greatly damage your kidneys. So, about 2 years ago cold turkey I quit them for good and it was very hard. I really craved that good feeling I got from them but just kept going each day until I was "unhooked". Now I know better than to want to be prescribed them any more. I take regular pain relievers now that are not addicting.
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I hear from people all the time that the pain killers make them feel "good." I've been on and off pain killers several times in my life, some of them very heavy ones. I never had the experience that they made me feel "good." Even when I was on several of them at once around the time of my hip surgeries and immediately after, they only helped with the pain and some made me sleepy. I never had any desire at all to take them when I didn't need them, and just quit taking them when I didn't need them any more.
 

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