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My caveman brain was psyched out by the idea of stopping my coke drinking habit. I thought I had a soda addiction. Turns out I didnt, I just didnt drink enough
by prodigycorp 8mo ago
My caveman brain was psyched out by the idea of stopping my coke drinking habit. I thought I had a soda addiction. Turns out I didnt, I just didnt drink enough water. After I pulled water bottles instead of coke cans from the fridge, the cravings went away.
Sometimes we don't need cold baths or extreme regimens to fix all the messed up things we're doing to our bodies. Simple changes go far to heal the damage.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoI think what you experienced was behavioral addiction, tends to be a lot easier to overcome than chemical/physical addiction, often enough by just replacing the habit/behavior with something else. Most people fighting addiction and having a hard time is fighting a chemical dependency, which is a lot harder and when people start looking beyond "Just do X instead".
- prodigycorp 8mo agoYou're probably right. It seems like there's not a hard line between behavior and chemical addiction, because of how the chemicals create reward signals to reinforce certain behavior. From the article: > Basic science models show that liquid sugar concentrations around 10% by weight—comparable with Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew—can reliably trigger addictive behaviors in animals, including bingelike consumption, withdrawal, and dopamine system alterations. But yeah, it's obviously nothing close to a nicotine.