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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Both alcohol and nicotine. Corona probably saved me with its lockdowns (though I did go back to hard drinking to some degree after). I still have the odd drink and odd cigarette, but neither are everyday things for me anymore and I can go weeks without either (though on days I do drink, it certainly makes me want to smoke).

Currently battling coke zero. I will dehydrate rather than just drinking plain water (carbonated makes little difference) as I just don't want to drink it and forget about it. As a kid, the place I lived had well water that didn't taste great, so that's probably something to do with it. I've managed to somewhat replace it with a zero-calorie sports drink powder that I put in water. Still, it lacks the mouthfeel and satisfaction.

The other current battle is gluten and thus wheat and everything containing it. This is more-or-less impossible here in Japan if eating out (most soy sauce has gluten). The background is that I likely have Celiac's (dad has it with very rough symptoms starting in his 60s, I'm in my 40s and a DNA test already told me I had inherited markers for it was likely to develop it). I was called "the bread kid" as a child because of how much I liked to eat (particularly homemade) bread. Until very recently, I baked bread and stuff a lot. It really sucks because I really miss the texture and taste of good bread. It's also difficult when thinking about what to eat. "Oh, I've got some pasta that will just take a few minutes to cook" is not a thing anymore. I have to make rice or potatoes ahead or have nothing but meat and veg.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Biting my nails till they bleed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Coffee ice cream. Could eat litres at a time. Quit over and over, went shopping, came back with more litres.

Then I realised I was lactose intolerant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you realize after quitting multiple times?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eat two litres. Toilet. Take two pills. Eat two litres. Not toilet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Smoking. First nicotine and then weed.

Currently working on my addiction to junkfood, sugar and general overeating.

Still highly addicted to caffeine and possibly in denial about a sex addiction. But I think I'll keep those two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@tilefan That's weird, it's not that I'm purposefully get rid of addictions, I just kinda... lose interest.

I used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. I also used to drink a lot. I don't mind a cigarette or a beer or a shot every now and then, if the mood is right and the company is fine, but doing it every single day? Nah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Biting my nails. By cutting them short. If they grow long I eventually bite them off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
  • Xanax
  • Codeine
  • Tramadol
  • Marijuana
  • Cigarettes
  • Reddit
  • Going out to friends houses all the time

Still depressed and can’t face the fact I have another 30 years of work left and it’s killing me slowly everyday.

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