Is the fastest way to get rid of an addiction to get a new one?

Question

Is this true?

Answer 1

This can be true although not necessarily intentional. For example when people are dieting instead of eating compulsively, they may become obsessed with counting every calorie and controlling everything they eat. There really is not fast way to get rid of a true addiction. It will take time, work and persistence.

Answer 2

Usually people who have addictions have addictive personaities so they may struggle with this their entire lives -- go for a healthy addiction like eating vegetables at every meal or walking 30 minutes a day until you get to the root of your addition. Sometimes addiction is really a compulsion to do something (you can't help but to do it -- form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder may be feeling the need to always close all doors, cabinets, etc.). If it is a classic drug addiction I think most addicts struggle with reality being "boring" or hard to cope with so they try to enhance reality.

Reality is cool once you live there long enough and is way more interesting than any drug -- but you have to belive that and know that.

Answer 3

Then what? get addicted to something else to get over the new one? Where does it end? If You want to get over an addiction, you have to face it!! Stop doing it cold turkey. I have been through many. The only way is to beat addiction is with the mind, where the addiction lies. The mind is stronger than any addiction. If you need help, there are support groups everywhere. But If you really want help... Help yourself first. Don't get in deeper than you are already. Try it!!

Answer 4

"Hello blue_bee!
I'm kind of afraid to answer your question; although I understand it. I make attempts to tell the truth in every answer; however, I can seem to be verbally brutal to those who are "thin skinned."
You composed a question that is grammatically correct. You capitalized correctly. The punctuation is correct also. You asked two questions, both of which mean the same thing. Your writing is to the point and without excess baggage.
You are serious. You really want to know an answer.
I'll share because I care about you as another equal person, but, I think I'll limit my suggestions to two. You, most likely, will not care for them. That's ok.
You admit you have an addiction. You have made youself transparent to anyone who "listens" to what you write about yourself.
(1) The mere suggestion, that you desire to trade one addiction for another, reveals your lack of character. I feel certain that those of your kind have an arrested conscious about others.
(2) The reponsibility to right yourself is, totally, upon your shoulders. Obviously, you have little of it, but, just enough to ask for a way "accross" and not "out."
I think you'll know what I mean."

Answer 5

No way! Is it an addiction to caffeine, exercise, shopping, food, cigarettes, substance, or other? You need to look at what is the underlying reason for the addiction, the issue that has contributed to this. Was/is it boredom, anxiety, stress, depression? Depending on what is leading you to go for that addiction, you need to confront that issue in itself, whether it be through talking to someone or finding some healthy stress-releasing techniques, but going for some other addiction is only masking the real problem and substituting one symptom for another.

Answer 6

Since to get rid of an addiction, you will need a better one, I don't recomment that method. THe best method is to get totally rediculously busy. Like have a job. You know, sometimes, I get uncontrollable urge to masturbate in school. BUt I don't, b/c its school. Just like that, get a job, or a camp, where resting is not an option, you have to keep doing something.

Another thing, pay close attention, everyone have a time where they get their urge on, a mood, a reaction. Watch out for that, for the rest of the time, you might as well rest.

Answer 7

not an addiction, but trying to keep yourself busy or seeking help from a professional is the best way. I know many people who have more than one addiction and no way of getting out.

Answer 8

Maybe. But then you now have a new addiction to get rid of. Or in a worse case scenario, you'll have two addictions in the end.

Answer 9

Actually, the daughter of a friend of my wife was sent off to girl's school. They actually told her to do exactly what you suggested. So, she went from being a cocaine addict to being a clean freak. She replaced snorting cocaine with cleaning. The amazing part of it was that it worked, at least so far. She has made a major change in her life, partly by being removed from the environment where she got into trouble, of course.

Answer 10

Yes