Can an addiction (nicotine, porn, sugar, alcohol, etc.) only be "fought" by a new addiction?
For example, if a smoker who is addicted to nicotine wants to quit, they can replace their craving for nicotine with, say, a lot of jogging. So much that they successfully quit nicotine, but instead become addicted to exercise.
Or a person who is addicted to Instagram decides against this addiction, but the craving is strong, the person then satisfies the craving for Instagram with food, so much so that a food addiction develops
I once read that you can successfully fight an addiction with a new addiction.
Is there any truth in this statement?
Have you personally successfully "overcome" an addiction (whether sugar, nicotine, alcohol, internet, etc.)? If so, with a new addiction, or did no addiction develop that completely replaced the previous one?
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1: Absolute nonsense. I was able to successfully overcome my addiction (which one?) without immediately developing a new one.
2: Yes, that's true. I was able to successfully overcome an addiction (which one?) only because I completely replaced the addiction with a new one. There was no other way; I needed something to satisfy the craving, and that's how the new addiction arose.
3: another answer, namely:
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The problem is actually, the word addiction, will forgive me today and especially here on the network, much too fast and too easy. It is easy to distinguish between serious addiction diseases, physical and psychological addiction, and what is simply interpreted into the quick somewhere.
Of course, you can also be addicted to a certain extent by filling only one lottery ticket. Nevertheless, one should definitely distinguish this from a hard game addiction where, for example, someone would be willing to go over corpses in extreme cases, to overthrow a bank, steal handbags, just to get to new game money.
And often addiction diseases also have social backgrounds, ranging from social preservation to other chronic diseases already acquired.
For example, if you are addicted to drugs and you can get away from it, for example, you develop the addiction on the Internet to further train and develop, read, watch documentation. Then there’s a search relocation not really bad. It always depends.
From the principle, every addiction to something and the brain is always looking for a kick. But you can use this very well as your new addiction does not represent physical, psychological danger and even offers you spiritual benefits.
In a search therapy, you will be given a different way to get to your lucky hormone by working therapy, sports therapy, ergotherapy. So in the end, it doesn’t matter. You will always be looking for bliss hormones, so something is natural and something you can actually regulate yourself, which is very difficult.
It would be bad if you went from drugs to a game addiction etc.
My grandma chose to smoke with 68 from one day on the other, which she has done for over 40 years. Without tools, without everything and without relapse and has not developed any other search.
At the end, I always think it depends on how strong one is or is. whether one does not have other problems, including psychic nature, which have been alleviated, but which then come out even more strongly when one gives up the addiction. Then you should try to get professional help and not fall into the next search.
Exchange a addiction to another addiction is a well-known phenomenon and is called “sustainable displacement”.
I’ve often seen it at work. It was, for example, stopped with alcohol, but smoked more frequently. This is a mechanism of the body, but also against where the addiction has shifted, you can do something. Sometimes even easier than against the original addiction.
If I try to give up a addiction, my brain will instinctively search for alternatives to replace this kick or that feeling of happiness that I have experienced with the old addiction. So the addiction moved, but she was never gone. This is why the addiction is not considered to be overcome in the event of a shift.
In most therapies there is therefore also a basic ban on alcohol – even if it is a group that has, for example, a problem with amphetamine consumption.
Well, no. The statement is wrong. A search displacement is not a fight against addiction and you can also learn to live without addiction.
The second most common thing you can do with addiction is to look for a replacement addiction.
In any case, it is the second most common if the replacement addiction is less frail than the original addiction.
This is also not done in any withdrawal clinic, since the sense of withdrawal is then no longer (active) to be addicted.
Therefore, it is simply wrong to assert that this is only the case. There are people who do this but only because something is possible and is made by some is not sensual or the only way.
Search counselling agency to explain whether it is actually a addiction or only incomprehensible and thus willing behavior. In the case of a addiction disease, a pampering treatment is generally necessary, and the visit of self-help groups is a very sensible measure.
The term “search” is used in inflationary terms. Especially for good question.
The correct medical definition of “search” or “dependency” is not known by questioners, in this respect, almost everything is associated with addiction, which is repeated in phase or permanently.
The only fact, however, is that every person is interested in production and effects endogenous drugs, (bodies, hormones) how adrenaline, serotonin, melatonin, etc. is dependent and without this material mechanism would not be (“normal”) viable, shows that the word “search” would have to be completely redefined by assuring every person as of course insect.
Search displacement (i.e. turning to another addiction) seems to be the simplest solution, but it is not. The addiction is created in the head, long before being physically dependent. Thus, the addiction must also be turned off in the head, in principle. If you don’t manage to do this, you’ll get back again and again.
Of course, you’re looking for a “replacement satisfaction”, and there would be a good one, or a hobby, which can’t make physically dependent and possibly automatically set limits, so that it can’t be a addiction.
I stopped smoking like that (about 15 years) when I was pregnant, that was simple from my head and has now held 40 years….
I had addictions, which I completely treated with others, but also things that I had left without building a new addiction. But I am a person who is really susceptible to addiction behavior, so I think that it depends on man how much one tends to one or the other behavior.
I stopped smoking this morning. Just like that. It’s just a headache.
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It’s just a headache, and that wouldn’t work with everything.
I live with my addiction without fighting her or I try to consume less.
I’m dependent on Cola. That’s not bad, but my weight and my blood sugar have driven up. Now I drink 1-2 glasses mostly at noon, formerly the 1-2 liters were daily. In the office we had a machine, there I had to drink a 0.5 litre bottle in the morning to be nice. In general, I find it difficult to dispense with sugary foods.
Is it Cola or Coffein?
Cola
Do you get a funny taste of it in the evening? That’s what happened to me when I drank in the USA in the morning Cola from depression
No
Okay.
Strange, I’m hearing for the first time.
Yes is possible but not recommended
A addiction to replace the other addiction does nothing. The only thing that really helps is its own will and perseverance.
That’s what I call addiction. I know a female person who was hard alcohol-dependent. This addiction has completely under control, but has become magical. Of course this does not affect everyone, but can happen.
That’s not quite right. If you are alcohol addiction and then start smoking then you can also be dependent on it. Best as soon as you notice that the thought only turns around one, pull the emergency brake and look for a self-help group. There are several on the Internet.
Ne normal search displacement
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You fight a addiction by covering the needs you try to compensate for your consumption.
Or in other words:
Let’s say you feel lonely -> so you watch porn, which gives a sense of intimacy.
That’s what you’re doing a while and suddenly you have to watch more and more things to get the same kick.
The same for any other drug.
As a smoker you need more cigarettes, so more grass than coke more coke,
Even as a gamer, you need newer and better games. The simple kick is not enough.
Find out what needs you want to meet with the drugs and find the solution.
Video games = is your life boring or do you want to compensate pain, run away from something?
Candy and eat = do you want to push the pain by eating so much that you can’t think clearly?
In theory, a addiction can be fought with a new addiction.
For example, you could make sports your new addiction.
But also sport could be harmful.
In most cases, however, it is a better addiction than any drugs.