Cheese is not an addiction. Cheese is the gift of Tiamat to bring hope to a world grown cold and chaosdragonless.
chocolate.
Gaming.
If I know I’ll just get frustrated by playing Modern Warfare 2, but I still want to play it, that’s an addiction, right?
Caffeine, the internet and the SDMB, and dancing. I don’t think I can survive without dancing!
How do you know it’s not the Dew? You said you can happily abstain from caffeine but Dew has a crapload of caffeine in it.
Heh. I remember when we were in NOLA, there was a bar near our hotel that advertised GAMING in neon - we went in cause it’s fun to play video games and drink…
Imagine our annoyance when it was all video poker and stuff. Bah! I had been hoping for Drunken Pac-Man!
Seriously though, I think that would be awesome - set up an internet cafe/bar, with old school video games in the rear.
I listed caffeine, but it really is just Coke Zero that I struggle to go without. I love the taste of the stuff! I’m actually disappointed when only regular Coke is available and I hate Diet Coke. I am not a fan of other colas either, though I’ll drink them if that’s all that’s around.
I limit myself to a maximum of 2 cans a day, though. I always have one mid-morning at work, then one with lunch. I’m actually rather sensitive to caffeine, so more than that and I’m wide awake all night or worse, suffering from a migraine! If they ever make caffeine-free Coke Zero that tastes the same, I’ll stockpile the stuff. More than I stockpile Coke Zero now, anyways (you should see our bar fridge…!)
Nicotine for sure.
I accidently made it through the day recently without any caffeine, but when I got home, realized what I had done, and realized that I felt a little different than ususal, I drank a Pepsi. So then, caffeine . . . maybe, maybe not. Unlike a pack of Marlboros, I’m willing to leave the house without it and not fret.
It’s been suggested that I’m a compulsive book-reader and movie-watcher, but I’m not sure such predilections actually constitute addictions.
I like sex a whole lot, but my activities in that realm haven’t gotten me into (too much) trouble over the years.
Coffee. I’ve had my two or three cups a day since I was eight or nine. My mother and grandmother thought it was cute.
In the past:
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Smoked cigarettes (less than a pack a day) for a year or so when I was 17-18, got tired of it, quit forever. No big deal. Thank god.
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Smoked a LOT of grass from age 19 to 35. Semantic hairs might be split over whether or not I was truly addicted, but for all of those years I was very definitely psychologically dependent on the boo. For about the last five of those years I desperately wanted (and tried) to quit; after many failed attempts I finally succeeded. I haven’t even seen a joint for over 25 years now, and I can honestly say I haven’t missed it for one second.
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I feel kind of good about being one of the few not addicted to caffeine. The only thing that has even a little caffeine in it that I consume is chocolate but I don’t do it to wake myself up, just because I’m addicted to chocolate. (Oh, wait. You left that off, Skald!)
My drug of choice is food. It’s every bit as addictive as alcohol or tobacco, imo.
I notice that there are no meth users and no Fox News addicts… Can I deduce, then, that only meth-heads watch Fox? Somehow I believe that…
Skald, I can’t help but notice that you left out good old fashioned non-anonymous non-degrading sex (I’ll let you have the tawdry, it’s always more fun if it’s just a little tawdry). Why do you think that is?
I’m addicted to analyzing people over the internet. 
Nah, meth-heads just watch the local news so they can see themselves on TV.
Books.
I have had what were suspiciously similar to withdrawal symptoms when I couldn’t find a book to read.
Caffeine, SDMB (to a certain extent), and the Real Housewives of New Jersey.:o
It’s the Mtn. Dew itself that I am addicted to–taste, chemical in it, whatever–not the caffeine. I know this because I can get my Dew fix either with regular or caffeine-free Dew, doesn’t matter but nothing else works.
I can, and have, gone for several weeks denying myself any Mtn. Dew, drinking only water. Eventually, I just have to have some. Strangely, Diet Dew doesn’t have the same effect (and neither do other diet or non-diet sodas–including the “yellow” ones like Mello Yello, Sundrop, etc.) but regular and caffeine free Dew are interchangeable to my craving.
Books are the closest I come to a real addiction.
I own way more than I’ll ever really read.
Whenever I feel down, I go to a bookstore to cheer up.
I spend too much on books.
I get annoyed if someone suggests I spend too much on books.
Sometimes, I tell myself I’m going to thin down my book collection. But when I try to pick out books to sell or give away, I get nervous and anxious until I give up.
There are worse addictions to have of course. The secret to stopping an addiction is to want to stop it. But I don’t want to.
Sugar. It is harder to give up than any of the meds from which I had withdrawal (although after each operation it seems that stopping the oxycotin is more and more a trial.)
How the hell can you leave out FOOD???
Especially junk food, with lots of the wrong kind of carbs.
I’m so addicted to meth I voted for it twice. On the other hand, I quit smoking three weeks ago.