Have you recovered from another addiction?

This might sound silly, but I got addicted to a particular sweet cream that I would always put in my coffee. I started to see how it affected my mornings when I had it with my morning cup of coffee. So I laid off. It was harder than I thought. That taste was a part of my daily morning routine, and then it was gone.

Trying to stop jacking-off every morning(or night) is freakin' murder sometimes.

 

Yes , from the videogames

 

Yeah it more than likely had hidden MSG in it.

 

Actually I've quit this one but not others. I can say codependency but that was not so much an addiction as a huge blind spot. My AP who is a retired addiction therapist finally decided to stop asking me if there's PMO because he can see there's really no question about it anymore. I'm not sure how to talk about it because I don't think people can really believe the compulsion can be gone.

BTW I also think it's a mistake to frame it as discreet things to quit. That may be an easy way to think about it but if someone has the whack-a-mole thing then there's something underlying the particular behaviors, I think it's just a superficial view to check off different addictive behaviors. It is true there are unique aspects to PMO and having that gone is a big deal but both the general addictive tendency and the specific sexually related things have to be addressed.

 

I would not call it an addiction per se, but I did stop eating excessively. Back in the day I would regularly have snacks or deserts in between meals and the meals I ate were pretty large too. Unfortunately, this meant that I was rather pudgy during my teen years. So I started eating only when I'm truly hungry, started counting my calories and also stopped adding sugar to my tea. It has worked pretty well for me as my body weight went down from ~83 kg to ~73 kg in a year.

 

Cigarettes. Haven’t had one in 12 yrs.

 

Video games, quit playing since January 2021. I never felt the need to go back.

 

Gave up my video-game addiction. Parents took my laptop away for a few months and my interest eventually faded.