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Everyone is offering tricks or hacks to help, is simply stopping an option? I wasn't able to quit smoking until I really decided I wanted to quit and did it co
by stagger87 5y ago
Everyone is offering tricks or hacks to help, is simply stopping an option?
I wasn't able to quit smoking until I really decided I wanted to quit and did it cold turkey. Same with both Facebook and reddit. I was blowing hours of my day on reddit. Then I decided I didn't like that for myself and quit cold turkey. It really really sucked at first, but I feel like until you really want to quit, no amount of hacks or tricks is really going to work.
- Toutouxc 5y agoTelling addicts to "simply stop", I believe we (as a society) have already tried that. It doesn't work.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoS/he is telling addicts to tell themselves to stop.
- stinos 5y agoIndeed, and that's like the one thing addicts usually cannot do, almost by definition. At least that's how it is for me.
- t-writescode 5y agoThe person is claiming to have obsessive compulsive disorder, which can operate a bit different from regular addiction.
- astral303 5y agoThat's because this "cannot do" definition of an addict is incorrect/harmful. This is the disease theory of addiction (addicts can't help themselves) and has been proven wrong/harmful in recent psychology.
- stagger87 5y agoMy comment was a suggestion/question, not a one size fits all prescription. There is definitely some nuance you are looking past. Going cold turkey is a serious approach and for some addictions like smoking the most statistically successful approach to quitting.