addiction

[synapticjava]

Also, I wanted to formally announce that I have quit two addictions - er, one addiction and one gross habit. The addiction being soda. It sounds rediculous, but it's true - ask wilde_moon, she'll vouch for me. Drank at least one or two liters every day from the time I was about 3. S'probly why I have so much extra heft to begin with. Anyway, I'm now going on two weeks with no soda at all - not even diet (but that's gross and I'd never drink it anyway).

Bad habit - nail biting. Stopped cold turkey (okay, there was a LOT of chewing gum and smelly oils), but my nails are finally starting to grow normally, and I now have skin on my fingers! Yay! Two weeks for that, too.

I now only have one (known) addiction to tackle, and I'm askeered to do it. Stupid cigarettes - I hate 'em. They're expensive, they make my clothes smell and I hate the evol looks I get when I smoke. But on the other hand, I *love* 'em because of that feeling you get - that first drag in the morning that feels like sex and chocolate sliding down your throat. *sigh* I'm soooo gonna die young. *rolls eyes*

Comments

[tsavoritegarnet.livejournal.com]

I finally stopped chewing my nails around age 25, when my now spouse nagged me to the point that I'd take my hand down from my mouth even when he wasn't there to see it. He also took over keeping them trimmed, so there weren't any rough edges to start chewing on.

I'm all for you quitting smoking too. I have never smoked, but as a child of a heavy smoker, I do tend to blame my tendancy to get upper resp. infections on all the second hand smoke that was in my house growing up. As a non-smoker, I don't beleive I give anyone dirty looks for smoking either though, but it may well depend on my state of mind and ability to get away from the smoke.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

My mom was and still is a heavy smoker - I think smoking addictions are genetically related. But that's just my theory.

[tsavoritegarnet.livejournal.com]

I have wondered about that. Also recently, I've wondered if the nicoteen is a self medication for anxiety for my mom. I definately inherated her tendancy for anxiety along with my dad's depression. Although if she's mellow on cigerettes, I'd hate to think what she'd be like with out them. Which is why I take Xanex occasionally -- especially next week when I'll be visiting mom, and MIL and way more blood kin then I really want to deal with. :-)

[tsavoritegarnet.livejournal.com]

Duh. Forgot half what I was going to say! Along with the "do as I say not as I do" from my mother growing up, I had my father pretty well indoctronating me against smoking, which is probably a big part of why I never started. He made it really clear that he wouldn't try to change my mother's habit, but he REALLY

[tsavoritegarnet.livejournal.com]

*mutter, mumble, stupid keyboard!*

didn't want my sister or me to ever start smoking.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Heee...i know exactly what you mean. I used to smoke, and even though I don't anymore, I still think smoking is so fucking cool. I mean, it kills you, yes. But it feels so good, and looks so purty. The only reason I was able to stop is that I can't physically handle it. I get bronchitis and pneumonia and shit if I smoke.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm....marlboro...mmm...

[caviling]

I so wish smoking didn't look cool. But it does. It really does.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Yep. Just like you know stopping that car for that sexy hitchhiker is a *really* bad idea, but you just can't stop yourself. Is that an axe in his backpack? *g*

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm cool! *does the cool dance of emphezema*