It's the underlying issue. Addiction is a coping mechanism.
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I used to smoke cigarettes back in the 80's, then I quit. ... Today, I have no desire whatsoever to smoke a cigarette.
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"People are not addicted to drugs and devices. People are addicted to escaping reality." I'd say it's never a question of capabilities but always a question of willingness.
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it is a lifelong struggle. i am coming up on 5 years sober and it doesn't get any easier not wanting to drink.
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I have been sober from heronin for 8 years. I am still addicted to escaping reality— The ways I do it just aren’t as destructive.
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Both. Dopamine triggers reality beyond basic maintenance, it selects which behavior will make us the most valuable, by measuring which are the states of lower problem density trough comparing the ammount of achievable solutions we have at hand in real time. But solutions (purposes) are pointless unless applied to someone else, you trying to solve your own problems is both impossible and worthless (according to how dopamine behaves), so unless you are given a better state of life by someone else we will default to addictions, since it'll be the best way of spending one's time without others allowing you to spend it with them in a healthy, loving and pourposeful manner. Of course we always have the free will not to fall, but that is always a choice of not escaping your own misery and instead trying to lift yourself avobe it, which not too much people have the strenght to endure such uncertainty since it tends to prolong, and oxytocin's constant demand of certainty will actually also push one towards drugs, we in the end love them as a part of us, that's what makes oxytocin-based alterations of consciousness the worst addictions, like fent or any opioid. Weed on the other hand is one on the bottom of addictiveness, since it only causes your "self healing at home" (endocannabinoid) system to glitch into "constantly on" and "hyperdrive" instead of its normal dynamic regulation. Having it on comes with the functions for serotonin maintenance, which doesn't just remind you that you are hungry, but also that there are other things you must do in your everyday life that you can't do while high, so people more often than not understand when they can smoke and when and for how long to take breaks.
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A life long struggle, but it gets easier and easier with time to not go back. Just passed 9 years a while back.
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It's the same as "are people capable of change" Some simply can change, some cannot. Some people addiction takes hold, and never lets go.
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You never get rid of it You just simply learn to live without falling for temptation
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It isn’t an “or.” It can be both depending on the individual circumstance. Some people quit something and think about it every day. Some people actually break their addictions and don’t think about it most days. I don’t personally understand people who go to AA after being sober for 10+ years etc. Seems like it would be better to move on and put your addiction in the past like I did. I don’t say “I’m recovering” lol I’ve been clean for 3 years. I’m past the addiction.
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100% one can overcome addiction. Once the truth is revealed to them. I saw I started smoking to avoid the death of my daughter. It took me 27 years to see that and admit to it. But I observed myself smoking and I realized I went into thoughts. Once I was aware of every step of smoking opening the box lighting it up, and NO other distractions! No scrolling, No watching TV, no taking just taking in the joy of every puff, the smoke, the feeling going down my troat...then it revealed itself to me. I saw my self destruction, and just like that with 2 weeks of ONLY smoking when I smoked...I just stopped. It was no more that a ritual, and a habit it had become 1 of my God's, and I had no problem quiting. Also I noticed it limited me so much more than I noticed. I dont even think about smoking, like others I know that forced themselves to quit.
1 week ago | 7
I know exactly why I do what I do and why I cannot break my bad habits or addictions. I’ve tried to work on it, and it had gotten better, then I stopped doing the work and boom, right back to square one. The one thing, and I haven’t thought about this in a while, that I learned is “one day at a time” is the only mindset through it.
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Depends on the individual and the type of addiction.... Some addictions can be replaced with something healthier some can't ... I don't think it's life long though, just think some are harder than some to over come...
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@crew-coloradoriverentertai5197
It completely depends on the drug or activity. Personally, I will always be an addict. It's been years since I've actually practiced my addiction but I'm absolutely certain if I used the substance I once was hooked on even once, I would again find it difficult to stop. I've heard it said like this: "One beer is too much because then 12 isn't enough." Some people are genetically more succeptable to addiction and it's cultural in other cases. Many people use their addiction to cope with the difficulties of daily life. It's different for every person but most science says addicts cannot regulate their intake so must completely abstain from their addictive behavior to take control of their life back, there's no "cutting back," it needs to be a full stop.
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Addiction is not an adjective ; it's a noun. As such it can take any degree, and that means the whole gamut from "incurable" to "recoverable".
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It’s a struggle. I once had a teacher who had quit smoking for 8 years. Then she had 1 cigarette at a party, and she started all over again.
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Jesus Christ is bigger than any addiction, bigger than any problem you are facing and if you give it to him you will find freedom from whatever is holding you back❤ “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,” Colossians 1:13 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”” John 8:32 “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:36
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I think you can especially if your addiction is pretty is incredibly hard/ impossible to get and isn't readily available. Like alcohol, smoking, pornography, stuff like that that you can easily get your hands on and yeah you have to actively avoid and control yourself. But something like meth, I heard a lot of stories of people going clean and never touching it again. Helped by the fact that you can put yourself in a situation in which you never have to see it again.
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Aperture
Is addiction something that can ever truly be overcome, or is it a lifelong struggle?
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