If you or someone you know successfully battled an addiction, there is a radio show that is interested in having you as their guest. Of course, you must be willing to talk about it on air. Please email me if interested. Thanks.

Anne, I have a friend who uses the nicotine gum. He wuit years ago, but needed to substitute something at certain time of the day, especially after dinner.

Congrats on quitting!

Oh crap, I am addicted to food. I lost so much weight and it is creeping back on because I am a "portion pirate." I love to cook and its a real problem for me to cook for one. I am better off with Lean Cuisine so long as I don't gobble up three of them. I would be glad to talk about yo-yo-dieting....

chatty, I think she's looking for alcohol and drug addictions.

I wish we lived in the same neighborhood. You could cook for us.

Holy moly, poor you if I was to be cooking for any period of time. My food is real everything, no fake ingredients but you can really tell the difference in the taste too.

Hi:

I haven't posted to this forum in a few days, because I've been posting regularly to another one...for people who want to quit/are in the process of quitting/or have quit smoking.I fall in the middle group because I just quit (for the umpteenth time) on 11/1.

What a terrible, expensive, disgusting habit--but so very hard to break, even as society makes it less and less desirable to be a smoker. If it was an easy thing to break, I would have done so decades ago.

Anyway, I don't think this is the kind of addiction they are looking for, and even so, I don't think I'd want to discuss it on the air, but I just wanted to drop in and say hello, and this thread came the closest to what is going on with me right now!

What about HOARDING? That is a really terrible addiction, people throw nothing away, and are constantly picking up more juke to add to their collectiona. Its a pitiful and discusting and filthy addiction. One they cannot seem to easily cured of.

I went through an addiction to Oxycontin after having it prescribed to me by a doctor who told me that it was not addictive. It was for incredible pain that I suffered from fibromyalgia. It enabled me to work for five years more than I would have otherwise, but it messed up my digestive system so badly that it took three years to get rid of the constant nausea that I suffered from. When I discovered that the cause of this was the Oxycontin that I was being given. I changed doctors and quit the Oxycontin. It was the hardest thing I ever did. I went through the same withdrawal symptoms that a heroin addict does and I know that it was at least a year before I lost my desire for it. I don't think that I could talk about it on the radio...it was too terrible.

bev, I'm glad to hear you were able to kick that habit. I once read an article about that drug and how it almost shut down a small town because so many people became addicted. I know someone who was addicted to it and she had horrendous bowel problems which we learned stemmed from the medicine.

What do you do for your pain now?

no offense to anyone but over heer we call that drug hillbillie heroin. Doctors are a laugh eh telling you that drug aint addictive (Oxycontin)thats one of the things about dosctors we trust them. At lest if you had the facts you could have decided if you wanted to take it and watched out for addictive sighnes within yourself. you must have been so confused experincing withrawel cravings and all that goes with addiction without knowing what was going on. BEVSERARCHING, did ya manage to withdraw alone or did you do a treatment centre. did you go to any of the fellowships for help in the earlie stages or are you still going? I am sorrie you had to experinces all thatits tough using, tough withdrawing but the cravings thats ther long after the drugs gone from your bodie are/must have been awafull. I reallie glade you managed it all with help or alone, its reallie a comendiable thing you done.

well done that woman, indeed.
or in glaswegion "terms go'win ursell hen".