Education And Addiction

[nailit]

Following on from the replies on another thread...
Does education prevent addictions?
Educate all you want. We all know that
Drinking rots the liver,
Smoking rots the lungs,
Drugs rot everything,
Gambling splits up families,
Porn causes conflict with ur partner,
etc

Remind me again, just how does education prevent addictions?
I missed it!

[johnny.5]

I like my alone time but hate my lonely time
after my divorce when the kids were forced to live with their mother
I missed them so much and could so easily got addicted but did not the doctor prescribed some prozac which I took for two weeks with bad affects so did not continue course but I do enjoy a drink and have stopped smoking for over 15 years went Amsterdam in my youth and enjoyed their hospitality but no addictions thankfully not even answerbank :)

[nailit]

//you are probably the most, certainly one of the most, intelligent people on here//
You on the pull Pix lol :-)
//your addictions are nothing to do with IQ, you just need healthier coping mechanisms//
Same with smokers, drug addicts etc
Just wish society got this!
We all got problems, stop judging others and comparing others to ourselves. We all have different lives and oppurtunities in life.

[nailit]

/How well do you sleep and eat? //
Sleep at times ummm is non-existant...not good when driving a van for a living .
Eat like a pig...try not to.

[pixie374]

Lol, just my- honest- opinion, nailit. You will get there, you just need to find what works for you. And preferably a healthier distraction. I would self-refer to the silvercloud site... probably ignore the first few chapters and see if anything else helps. It's free, has an 80% success rate and will do you no harm in any case xx

[nailit]

Thank you pix. xx

[pixie374]

Xx

[DarceyK123]

My Mum is in her 80's and has smoked from before i was born. Her reliance on them totally and the smell of the house put me off taking it up.

Watching her now struggling with COPD is heartbreaking, and she spends more money on cigarettes than she does on food, also heartbreaking.