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Habit Hopping by Susan Saloom

I often write about addiction as, coming from a long ancestral line of vibrant characters addicted to everything from rum to racehorses, I know a thing or two about it!  I also know that it's one thing to kick 'the thing' but then there's the 'post thing habit hopping' to deal with.

For instance, you may give up smoking and take up shopping, or give up drinking and take up over-eating.  You see the thing is, it's not 'the thing' that is the problem - that's just a symptom.  You could indeed have a habit for anything - drugs, sex, dysfunctional relationships.........

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Addiction is Catching by Susan Saloom

We're probably all addicted to one thing or another, some more harmful than others!  But, if you're parents had addiction problems then there's a good chance you've 'caught the pattern'.  It doesn't always transfer like for like and the pattern often lies cleverly camouflaged in the addiction - whether it be gambling, drugs, eating, sex, bad relationships or an infinite number of other repetitive behaviours.  So how do you break the pattern?

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Fags or Vapes? Neither! by Susan Saloom

Quite apart from the obvious dangers of walking around with your head in the clouds, is vaping better than fags? In the longterm, definitely not.  But in the shorterm, vapers would argue that it's helped them quit the pernicious weed.  But they'll still be arguing anyway because they're still in the throes of addiction - only to the vape and not the fags?!  It's a bit like quitting fags and putting on 5 stone because eating cake replaced smoking. So how do you recover from addiction?

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Kicking Habits for Good by Susan Saloom

Do you struggle with habits you just can't get past?  Perhaps it's smoking, drinking, over-eating, any number of things.  It's often a roller-coaster of success and failure where you fall back into it during times of stress or you transfer one bad habit for another.   It's because relying on will power and self-denial does not reach the root of the problem - it's like an old DVD in your hardrive which you just can't delete.  So how can you kick that habit and be happy doing it?

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