Addictions

RichardCeann

What are yours? Mine used to be ciggies.

My grandfather was a serious drinker. Guinness and Jameson where his addictions.

My mate and colleagues are mad for coffee. They are in a bad humour until they get their caffeine fix.

What's yours?

Penny Tration

I'm totally addicted to bass.

Ugh. Men who can't leave down their takeaway coffee. It's so metrosexual and noughties. "I can't function until I get my coffee".

Diamond Doll

Diet Coke, Sauvignon Blanc, Fruit Gums, Boards.

Mark Tapley

The third one.

crazygeryy

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Ugh. Men who can't leave down their takeaway coffee. It's so metrosexual and noughties. "I can't function until I get my coffee".

your addicted to men who can't leave down their take away coffee?
interesting.

my phone and twixes.

RichardCeann

If we step back, we will admit that we are addicted online.

Penny Tration

In all seriousness, I was addicted to nicotine for years (8 months off the smokes today!), and I had 'issues' with some benzos I was prescribed for a while. I also used to drink six or more Red Bulls a day. :eek:

All healthy and addiction free now, though.

RichardCeann

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I also used to drink six or more Red Bulls a day. :eek:

All healthy and addiction free now, though.

God bless your hands! You must have the shakes.

Menas

I definitely have an addictive personality. Used to be a smoker etc.
I get hooked on mundane things. Tv shows. Sweets. Biscuts. Cake. Songs.

Penny Tration

RichardCeann wrote: »

God bless your hands! You must have the shakes.

Never had tbh! I only have one coffee per day now (when I get up in the morning), so no caffeine problems anymore thankfully.

RichardCeann

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Never had tbh! I only have one coffee per day now (when I get up in the morning), so no caffeine problems anymore thankfully.

I had a strong coffee and my pupils dilated and my hands were shaky as hell. I think if I drank your amount of red bulls, that I'd spontaneously combust.

Links234

Coffee for sure, I love it

Menas

Links234 wrote: »

Coffee for sure, I love it

I dont see coffee as an addiction. More an essential!

lizzyman

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I'm totally addicted to bass.

No treble?

Boring username

I never really got this caffeine thing at all. It seems like something people say because they feel it's required, not because they really really need coffee.

Disappointment.

Menas

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Disappointment.

You should get used to it.

Menas

Boring username wrote: »

I never really got this caffeine thing at all. It seems like something people say because they feel it's required, not because they really really need coffee.

Nah, caffine is physically addictive. Someone once switched my coffee for decaf as a 'joke'. I had banging headaches for a few days.
Was grand after that though.

Menas

Menas wrote: »

You should get used to it.

So predictable *sigh*

Boring username

Boring username wrote: »

I never really got this caffeine thing at all. It seems like something people say because they feel it's required, not because they really really need coffee.

I don't think there is such a thing as caffeine addiction.

One can love coffee, and even experience withdrawal symptoms, but it doesn't come with the compulsive use and physical addiction that marks drugs and alcohol dependence.

I think the word addiction became popular as the twee liked to pretend they are in the grip of some crisis...sipping their Starbucks latte.

Menas

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So predictable *sigh*

Just keep expecting the rest of us to do better. Your disappointment levels will stay high.

carzony

Coca-Cola, what a hard thing to stop drinking. I find each day i wanna drink more and more of the stuff.

Gongoozler

In the trendy sense of the word, chocolate.

But reality, nothing. Except maybe self defeating thoughts.

Tea. I drink way way way too much of it. It's not a caffeine thing though, because coffee wouldn't give me the same fix but decaf tea would.

Possibly exercise. I get tetchy if I don't exercise for more than a couple of days. Is that the same thing?

Coopaloop

Amazon 'buy now with one click' for books- I just can't help myself, and Lucozade from a can.

KungPao

Yeah that "cool to be a coffee addict" thing is a bit tiresome. It's a very easy addiction to break anyway, not like tobacco, alcohol, certain drugs. Just be honest, you like being an 'addict' because it's "cool" to drink coffee these days...but Maxwell House doesn't cut it for your Aoife's and Fintan's in the office. Oh no. It must be made by a 'barista' or at least from a Nespresso machine.

These kind of people are a marketers dream.

Tea is nicer anyway.

RayM

Just the heroin.

Only joking! I'm not addicted to it. If I stop taking it, I feel awful, so it's obviously really good for me. It stops the dead baby from walking across the ceiling.

Jenny Thalia

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

In all seriousness, I was addicted to nicotine for years (8 months off the smokes today!), and I had 'issues' with some benzos I was prescribed for a while. I also used to drink six or more Red Bulls a day. :eek:

All healthy and addiction free now, though.

Six or more cans of red bull?! Good god, your pee must have smelled like rocket fuel! Plus.. How did you ever get to sleep?!

I try to avoid things that could potentially be addictive, but I have succumb to tea. However I've replaced what I'd normally drink with herbal or decaf and have noticed the difference.

Deleted User

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Six or more cans of red bull?! Good god, your pee must have smelled like rocket fuel! Plus.. How did you ever get to sleep?!

Went out late one night and drank 6 vodkas and red bull to catch up and get in the mood.

Went back to pints after, but always remember was wired afterwards trying to sleep, it was like BZP. Never again.

RichardCeann

Yeah, the six cans of Red Bull threw me. God bless your insides. At least buy coke or some stuff.