Beldo
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- Jan 20, 2020
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I decided to write a few words about addiction as I was always addictive personality and thought about it a lot. I smoke, used to gamble pathologically, and abuse drugs. People who never did those things will just tell you "Why don´t you stop then?" But it's more complicated than that.
Most people will imagine just cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol. But addiction is something that we could not live without and was always important for our survival. We have spent more than 95% of our evolutionary history as hunter-gatherers, and our brain is very similar. Thanks to addiction you will always crave things you need to survive. If you decided to stay in a cave instead of hunting You would most probably die, but addiction makes it something more than things you need to survive. Hunting required a lot of energy and If you only went after feeling hungry it could be fatal.
When you are born, Your mother feeds you so you get addicted and start to crave it and cry when you want to eat. Because so soon in life you could never grasp that you need food to survive because if you don't eat you will die. Addiction solves it primitively by making you crave that thing so it's always a top priority for you to get those things no matter if you want or not. Like Drug users will do everything even lying and robbing their own families to get that drug.
Let's say You consciously decided to not eat, Your brain will be like "wtf this is stupid" take lead over your conscious almost like an auto-pilot and go Hunt. That's why it´s so hard to fight addiction, Once you start smoking You train your brain that smoking is something you need to survive, like everything you start doing regularly. The brain can't if it's good for you or not, that's the job of Your conscious to decide. So If you consciously decided to stop smoking, Your brain will be like "wtf this is stupid" takes over and make you go smoke, because it thinks Your life depends on it almost as much as on Food or Water.
Just take a look at these Withdrawal Symptoms:
1. Having urges or cravings
2. Feeling irritated, grouchy, or upset
3. Feeling jumpy and restless
4. Having a hard time concentrating
5. Having trouble sleeping
7. Feeling anxious, sad, or depressed
Same behavior as when You are Hungry or Sleep Deprived, but it's fake because You won't die by quitting smoking obviously
I hope this helps someone even tho there are no exact tips, maybe it helps You to realize it's just this primitive need. And also a big SCAM on Yourself...
Most people will imagine just cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol. But addiction is something that we could not live without and was always important for our survival. We have spent more than 95% of our evolutionary history as hunter-gatherers, and our brain is very similar. Thanks to addiction you will always crave things you need to survive. If you decided to stay in a cave instead of hunting You would most probably die, but addiction makes it something more than things you need to survive. Hunting required a lot of energy and If you only went after feeling hungry it could be fatal.
When you are born, Your mother feeds you so you get addicted and start to crave it and cry when you want to eat. Because so soon in life you could never grasp that you need food to survive because if you don't eat you will die. Addiction solves it primitively by making you crave that thing so it's always a top priority for you to get those things no matter if you want or not. Like Drug users will do everything even lying and robbing their own families to get that drug.
Let's say You consciously decided to not eat, Your brain will be like "wtf this is stupid" take lead over your conscious almost like an auto-pilot and go Hunt. That's why it´s so hard to fight addiction, Once you start smoking You train your brain that smoking is something you need to survive, like everything you start doing regularly. The brain can't if it's good for you or not, that's the job of Your conscious to decide. So If you consciously decided to stop smoking, Your brain will be like "wtf this is stupid" takes over and make you go smoke, because it thinks Your life depends on it almost as much as on Food or Water.
Just take a look at these Withdrawal Symptoms:
1. Having urges or cravings
2. Feeling irritated, grouchy, or upset
3. Feeling jumpy and restless
4. Having a hard time concentrating
5. Having trouble sleeping
7. Feeling anxious, sad, or depressed
Same behavior as when You are Hungry or Sleep Deprived, but it's fake because You won't die by quitting smoking obviously
I hope this helps someone even tho there are no exact tips, maybe it helps You to realize it's just this primitive need. And also a big SCAM on Yourself...
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