VSNFA: Very Serious Nonfood Addictions

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VSNFA: Very Serious Nonfood Addictions

Post by fkwan » Mon May 12, 2008 6:05 pm

When I'm bored, I get curious, and since I'm almost always bored, I get very curious. :)

Has anyone successfully gone into serious remission or quit a "more serious" addiction than food with No S, such as alcohol, drugs or smoking? I'm not talking about Reinhard's glass ceiling, I'm talking about no mo whatever. Period.

In order to preserve privacy, if you want to respond, you can just say, yes, I recovered from a VSNFA with no S, or no, it didn't help, or go bite myself. :)

Full disclosure: regretfully or luckily, depending on your point of view, the only addiction I ever had was to food.

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Post by TigerCrane » Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:02 am

I'm not really sure how you'd do that. "No heroin except on Sundays?"

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Post by davestarbuck » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:44 pm

I quit smoking. I simply stopping buying cigarettes....'Twas easy for me...


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Post by marleah » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:02 am

I haven't used No S per se for anything like that, but I am intending to start using the HabitCal for some other habits that I want to break.

For example, I (embarrassing habit alert) bite my lips quite frequently and invariably end up causing cold sores and swollen glands, which is painful and annoying. Not to mention, chapped and bitten lips are kind of gross looking.

I haven't started the HabitCal for it yet, but I am thinking about it. It won't be "only bite lips on Sunday" or anything like that, but just so that I am more conscious of it - if I bite my lips, then it is a red day, that kind of thing.

And by the way, if anyone has any tips, please let me know. I've started chewing gum in order to keep my mouth busy, but I don't really want that to become a habit either.
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Post by Bushranger » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:00 am

I used to have a very serious MMORPG addiction. It consumed my life completely for 2 years, and when I say consumed I mean I literally did nothing else at all. No job, didn't leave the house, didn't socialise, nothing. It came on the back of a nervous breakdown thanks to my job at the time.

When I finally chose to crawl out of the hole I was in it took a further 2 years of battling it quite regularly and then another year or so of fighting the occasional urge to play again. I often failed and did start playing again but each time I stayed on for less and less and the last time I got on I only lasted a week before I got sick of it and quit again. I am happy to report the very last urge I had to play I was able to resist completely and wipe it from my mind in a matter of days.

This was all before I found everydaysystems.com though. I finally broke the habit all by myself but it took a lot of work and a long time. It was effective though, and as a by-product of my mental process in breaking this addiction I can't stand to play any computer games at all now except for the occasional short flash game and even then they bore me stupid in under an hour.

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