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Poll Question: What is the hardest vice to give up?
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    Posted: June 17 2014 at 20:58
Smokes here too.  Yes, I tried to quit once, before I realized that nobody likes a quitter.  Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2014 at 23:10
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Smokes definitely. I still have the craving for a lovely fag once in a couple of weeks.Confused

Same here. I quit 3  years a go, but still crave them. Even dream about them once in a while. And if someone's smoking nearby, I love inhaling the smoke. Stupidest thing ever, picking up smoking...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2014 at 20:56
I have kicked a few dependencies - but I still need coffee to get through my day

that's where my vote goes!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2014 at 05:03
I've tried giving up all of these... Giving up alcohol is pretty difficult, but I'm getting there at the moment. I never had that much of an affinity with drugs, just the odd joint every now and then so I can't imagine that would be difficult. Cutting meat and dairy out of my diet seem tough at first, but actually it's been incredibly easy. I don't really drink coffee anyway. Smoking on the other hand... I've given up smoking about 10 times now. It's phenomenally difficult, which is ironic because it'll be the thing that kills me the fastest!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2014 at 11:23
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Ohhh, I don't know which is the hardest to give up. I don't really like weed so giving that up has been easy. Coffee I have never even tried to give up because I work in a coffee shop and love the stuff. I'll usually have 2 black cups of strong coffee before work and another two or so during the day. I figure if caffeine is my only addiction I got off easily. Which brings me to alcohol.

This is...a tough one. I'm currently drunk, so I guess that's a little serendipity for you. Most nights I have at least 2 drinks, sometimes more, and occasionally a beer at lunch or a shot of whiskey. So read into that what you will.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2014 at 03:19
Giving up the food I love would probably make me angry for quite a while, so I'll vote that. It's one of the few things I've got, y'know. 
I get into the drink a bit too, and I'm probably drunk about twice a week. I go through a 700mL bottle of spirits once a week on average, I'd say. I'd ultimately rather give up alcohol over good sh*tty food I can currently consume, because having alcohol alone would be sh*t.
I can't drink coffee because it effects my heart rhythm (I do miss it, and wish I could at least use it to pep me up a bit sometimes). Caffeine is not something I've been hooked on though.
I only smoke a small amount on the occasion, no addiction.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2014 at 01:15
Ohhh, I don't know which is the hardest to give up. I don't really like weed so giving that up has been easy. Coffee I have never even tried to give up because I work in a coffee shop and love the stuff. I'll usually have 2 black cups of strong coffee before work and another two or so during the day. I figure if caffeine is my only addiction I got off easily. Which brings me to alcohol.

This is...a tough one. I'm currently drunk, so I guess that's a little serendipity for you. Most nights I have at least 2 drinks, sometimes more, and occasionally a beer at lunch or a shot of whiskey. So read into that what you will.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2014 at 20:51
Caffeine (tea) -i've reduced it to 3 cups a day, but CANNOT go any lower.

Secondary to that would be junk food. Though I am trying to lose weight.

I haven't smoked or drank alcohol for decades, just about the best decision I made was cutting that crap out.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2014 at 19:50
Well, my wife has given up smoking two times since I  have known her....
Then on the other hand, she has never quit coffee. LOL

I'm not going into details, but none of the things I've tried to give up and went back to were hard to gives up.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2014 at 13:22
For some years I did smoke some cigars, only a few per week, but I was never nicotin addicted.
I got a girl friend who hated smoking, and I felt I would get problems with my bronchi if I continued (I was beginning to smoke a cigar almost daily), so eventually I gave up, but it wasn't very hard. I never officially stopped, but I haven't smoked in 10 years or something like that. No craving.

Coffee had been a bigger problem. I used to drink 9 mugs of strong coffee per day.
I brought it back to six cups of not so strong coffee, but it's hard to keep myself to that.

Alcohol too: One or two glasses of wine per day is normal for me, plus a few beers per week. But after I drank 2 alcoholic beverages or something like that, it's hard not to take any more. 

Food can be a problem too. I like chocolate, peanuts and other high calories snacks, a lot. It's hard to be moderate.

But apart from smoking, I never stopped with anything, and stopping to smoke was not hard, since I never smoked much, and to make a billclintonesque remark: I never inhaled LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2014 at 12:08
^Smokes. I went back to coffee. Chris sakes, a mans got to have some bad habit for his doctor to complain about!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2014 at 10:58
Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Smoking, definitely. I am now on my tenth week of giving up


Nice one Steve - personally, I only lasted 6 weeks a coup[le of years ago

I do have all the paraphenalia to make the attempt again (via vaping, this time), but every time I go to do it, the baccy calls to me again.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2014 at 12:38
None of these things are vices to me. Even though I love coffee, I don't drink it every day.

I do have other vices that you have not listed. Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 22:55
Diet restriction. I don't smoke nor drink that much anymore. I'd hate to have to give up food.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 12:40
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

I don't smoke and have no intention of giving up coffee. (I love it too much but don't overdo it). I've never had a problem with giving up unhealthy foods.  Trying to do no alcohol right now and its quite a challenge.  Unfortunately most of my engineer friends also have an alcohol dependencies thanks to college


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 12:31
Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

I don't smoke and have no intention of giving up coffee. (I love it too much but don't overdo it). I've never had a problem with giving up unhealthy foods.  Trying to do no alcohol right now and its quite a challenge.  Unfortunately most of my engineer friends also have an alcohol dependencies thanks to college


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 12:13
Cigarettes. I actually stopped a year and a half ago and then started again because most of my co-students smoked - and we all know the party is where the smokers are. There'll be 4 people sitting on chairs in the livingroom while 20 stand outside and talk about politics, music, women/men, sex, alcohol and whatnot....
Anyway I am not that bothered about smoking at the moment. It wasn't that hard to quit, I figure it's down to my mental state - do I really want to do this?

I used to smoke far too much weed and hashish at one point. Every day for a couple of years, yet it didn't influence my working life badly - just my wallet as it were. Hell back then it was party all weekend - Sundays and Thursdays included, and then work all week trying to make money for the aforementioned. It wasn't all alcohol and weed though, - I have probably tried everything there is to try except for the ol needle and the damage done. Never felt 'addicted' to anything from the drug world though, even if a few summers were a tad overindulgent on my behalf. Looking back, I'm glad I did it - no regrets, but on the other hand, it was probably a wise decision to leave that life waaaaaay behind.
Weed is only for the occasional weekend, and alcohol equally so - I do suspect that my intake of both will increase drastically during the summer, but I am perfectly fine with that.

Regarding food: I need to watch what I eat, but I've never really had an unhealthy addiction. I loooooove food and I thank my mom's home cooking for that. That will never change, even if I end up looking like Meat Loaf.   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 12:07
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

I don't smoke and have no intention of giving up coffee. (I love it too much but don't overdo it). I've never had a problem with giving up unhealthy foods.  Trying to do no alcohol right now and its quite a challenge.  Unfortunately most of my engineer friends also have an alcohol dependencies thanks to college


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 11:53
 The only one I have given up is fags *British Slang thanks* and it took several attempts but I made it in the end. However, I need to cut my cholesterol levels and this is difficult and unsuccesful so far.  So Food for me, even though the ciggies were an absolute nightmare to stop.  
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