How to Handle Addiction |
Posted: March 22, 2019 |
When it comes to addiction, most people try to go cold turkey instantly. When they want to quit they quit hard, and they end up failing. They relapse, they fall off the wagon, they go back to the substance or activity and get more addicted than ever before. Why is this? Quitting anything is hard, but quitting something you know is not good for you should be easy right? Well, there’s a better way to quit, and it all deals with the science of addiction as well as the process that got you addicted in the first place. How addiction works Most addiction paths follow the same method. First, it’s the “just one” - do just one drink, just one cigarette, just one porn video etc. Then it turns into just one more, as your body has to handle the rush of pleasure to its brain, and then generally adapts to the sensation. Think about it this way. Someone tells a funny joke and the recipient guffaws and laughs out loud. If that same someone told the same joke again, the same recipient would end up laughing less. If the person keeps telling the joke, it becomes less and less funny. The recipient needs a new joke to get the same level of laughter. Addiction is the same way in that someone who is addicted needs more and more of the substance or activity to get the same level of pleasure, until they are hooked and dependent on the feeling to survive. A way to quit Grand declarations of quitting normally don’t work the way people think they do. It's like dropping a fish into a new fish tank. That fish is going to be overwhelmed by the change, go into shock, and die. The body is the same way. Since it’s been trained and is dependent on whatever theaddiction is, losing it suddenly will cause shock to develop. So, people need to quit the same way they got started - with just one. Instead of 10 drinks a night, try nine drinks a night for a week and the body will adapt to the change. Then go to 8 drinks and so on. Wean off slowly and take the time to ensure the change can be handled, and eventually, it will get easier and easier to quit for good. The same process that starts addiction can also be the process that ends addiction.
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