# Okay, let's be honest: what are you addicted to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 1, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787 "2010-08-01T13:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shawn\_K\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Shawn\_K\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn_K_1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/41 "2010-08-02T01:19:34Z")
I’m not overly addicted to anything, just go on binges of energy drinks, booze, exercise in various forms, thankfully the healthy binges last longer than the bad ones. I wish I was getting enough anonymous, degrading sex to say I’m addicted but I’m not, to busy doing other things (including nothing, should hire a hookerbot) ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/42 "2010-08-02T01:22:03Z")
Chocolate, chocolate, sugar and chocolate ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/43 "2010-08-02T03:52:40Z")
At the top of my list would be something you left out completely: Food. ---
**Author:** ![corvidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@corvidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corvidae)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/44 "2010-08-02T04:15:09Z")
Has anyone mentioned salt? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/45 "2010-08-02T04:18:08Z")
Tobacco. Although I can go years without using there are days or weeks that just cry out for a good cigar or a pack of Mailpouch. The internet in general. And “green” or “tree-hugging” or whatever you want to call it. I’ve been interested and active in the environment for so long that not to pre-cycle (and other stuff like that) is unthinkable to me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/46 "2010-08-02T04:23:55Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > How the hell can you leave out FOOD??? I think everyone is addicted to food. I mean, we must be. If we stop eating it, we die. I checked the boxes for caffeine and Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/47 "2010-08-02T05:23:30Z")
You left off gambling. I am not an addicted gambler although I was in the casino trade. I had a bad 8 year addiction with crack cocaine. I have not touched the drug in over nine years. The reason I haven’t is that I left the USA to take a job in a country with strict drug laws. “Geographic cures” do not work, but it did to me. When I drink alcohol, I tend to get drunk. I do not get drunk everynight because of the hangovers. I get drunk about once per week, but lately my behavior has been hostile and loud, so I am cutting out the public boozing for the mean time. I am rather enjoying not being hungover, but about once a week, I want to get fucked up. That’s my nature and I am not going to break it. I smoke marijuana everyday. It calms and relaxes me. I enjoy the feelings of ease and comfort. I am very resentful of the fact that this is illegal and I have to hide in a dark corner to use it while Uncle Drunkie is dancing on the tables naked. My wife doesn’t know I smoke, but I think she suspects it. I used to drink mostly everyday, since I switched from the bottle to the bong, my mood is much happier and friendlier. Even when I am not “high”. I have done meth two times, once back in 1993, and the other time in 2007 or so. I didn’t like that shit. Made me paranoid. The rush was fun for a few minutes but then I realized that I am not going to come down and here I am bouncing all over the house for 12 hours, with panicky paranoia, looking through my peephole outside and afraid people were going to come into the windows. No, thanks, I’ll pass. I rarely smoke cigarettes sober. Maybe once a day or less. I don’t smoke tobacco after I eat, nor do I do it after sex, or when I wake up in the morning, or really anytime. However, if I am on the booze, I smoke like a chimney. It’s a cross addiction. Doing one thing makes you want to do another. I lot of cocaine freaks do Xanax to get them back to normal. Drunks smoke. I have done AA and 12 step groups which I found after careful study to be mostly nonsense. I also hate the part that one must admit to “powerlessness”. They believe that one needs to find a “God of their own understanding,” a Seinfeldian theology of “a faith about nothing.” Even though you can choose a God, eventually they will tell you that there is one God. I found the experience “cultic” in nature. I am also annoyed by the fact that drug treatment centers mostly all fall back to 12 steps instead of exploring deeper in the psychology of an addict and possible medications to ease cravings for the addictive drug. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/48 "2010-08-02T10:56:57Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > > [@panache45](#): > > > > How the hell can you leave out FOOD??? > > I think everyone is addicted to food. I mean, we must be. If we stop eating it, we die. Eating for survival is very different than eating and not being able to stop. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/49 "2010-08-02T12:30:43Z")
Sugar. Give me a cake and I will eat the whole thing, possibly in one sitting. I try not to bring cake in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/50 "2010-08-02T13:09:38Z")
Reading. Anything. If I don’t have a book, I’ll reread my credit card agreements. Just . . . can’t . . . stop. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/51 "2010-08-02T13:13:52Z")
I’m addicted to love. I might as well face it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/52 "2010-08-02T13:20:34Z")
Caffeine - I get withdrawal migraine if I don’t have at least one caff. beverage in the AM. And the internet. In absence of internet, reading anything else. ---
**Author:** ![wolf-alice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@wolf-alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf-alice)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/53 "2010-08-02T13:22:45Z")
I’m not addicted to anything. I’m a destructive binger type rather than a long term addict type, for better or worse. No commitment, that’s my problem. Or does bingeing count as addiction? If so, my answer is “most things, save Fox News and food”. I’ll overdo just about anything else, if I’m in the mood. If not, I like the internet, caffeine, exercise and kicking jerks in the nads just fine, but should I find myself without either for whatever reason, I find something else to do (and this something isn’t "lying on the the floor in the foetal position going “WHY GOD WHY”, I should note. Except for that one time). ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/54 "2010-08-02T13:50:19Z")
I had no internet access last week and discovered I can go approximately four days without Internet before I start twitching. Obviously I am addicted to the Internet. And coffee. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/55 "2010-08-02T13:56:59Z")
No shame here; I’ll admit to a caffeine addiction and a cannabis dependence. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/56 "2010-08-02T15:39:30Z")
Caffeine (in the form of coffee in cooler months, and Diet Coke/Coke Zero year-round). And World of Warcraft. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/57 "2010-08-02T16:32:45Z")
I will play Transformers: War for Cybertron in lieu of eating, despite knowing that I really should eat something today. This is why I won’t play WoW and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/58 "2010-08-02T22:38:19Z")
Afrin nasal spray. Yeah I live on the edge. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/59 "2010-08-03T04:00:31Z")
> [@evilbeth](#): > > Mtn. Dew. > > Not the caffeine, as I can happily drink caffeine-free–it’s the Dew. I have withdrawals if I stop and I crave it. I gave up caffeine a while back. Where do you get the caffeine-free stuff? I’m trying to get my local Walgreen’s to carry it. And I only picked the Dope and the Internet in general. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787/60 "2010-08-03T04:36:44Z")
I have a honking addiction to the Straight Dope. And not in a good way. I mean it in exactly the way people mean when they say ‘‘addiction’’ - it fucks with my life. It makes me unhappy and often exacerbates my depression and is probably holding me back from developing a robust social life but _I can’t fucking stop_. I’ve thought about seeking help for internet addiction, but the only place I really feel comfortable looking is… the internet. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-be-honest-what-are-you-addicted-to/548787.md?page=4)