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Hey Pandas, Which Would Be The Hardest Habit To Break – Caffeine, Alcohol, Or Nicotine? (Closed)
Which would be the most difficult to quit for you?
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#1
nicotine .. gave up long term amphetamine use, acid , xtc...just can't kick the smokes....
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5points
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#3
Of course alcohol. It blurs your depression.
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4points
#4
Caffeine will be difficult to quit because I have quit drinking already and I never liked nicotine
Final score:
2points
#5
Alcohol. Everyone I know slowly stopped smoking, till eventually I was that last sad little person out on the corner enjoying my breaks. Eventually I quit too. Caffeine is easy enough to not buy, but alcohol is tough to quit even when everything is telling you to quit while making it a popular, fun and oftentimes expected social ritual.
Final score:
2points
#6
Well, alcohol was difficult (20 + years), but nicotine seems to be just as difficult
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1point
#8
Probably nicotine. Caffeine can take it or leave it. No longer drink alcohol. Last drinking stint was over 5yrs ago :)
Final score:
1point
#9
Alcohol
I stopped cold turkey dipping Copenhagen long cut when my ex wife said I should stop or she’d divorce me. I stopped and she still did…ha…ha…ha…now my current wife who I have my world, my entire being, my little girl with. Wants me to stop drinking, no problem…yeahhh Alcohol is proving difficult for me. I’m not violent or obnoxious or anything. It’s for my health and I need to stop. I want to be there to walk my little girl down the isle. I went four days, four. Felt like I was missing my little girl even though she was right by me the entire time. This is addiction. Kids don’t drink alcohol or do drugs…
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1point
#10
Caffeine. I feel like I can't function as well without caffeine.
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1point
#11
Caffeine isn’t going anywhere. It’s been 5 years since I’ve had alcohol and 1 year since I quit smoking. Soda is my only vice. That I’m willing to admit. Lol
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1point
#12
I don’t do any of them, but I remember my Dad stopping all three.
He smoked a pipe. His doctor suggested he should lose some weight, so he started jogging, and quit smoking then. No problem.
He watched a family member go through a case of beer over the weekend and realized he did the same thing to a lesser degree. If he bought a six pack, he drank the whole thing. So he quit, cold turkey, no problem.
The coffee? MUCH harder. Headaches, withdrawal, a much more painful experience altogether.
Final score:
1point
#13
Nicotine. I’ve quit caffeine and alcohol fairly easily in the past. Haven’t had any luck quitting nicotine.
I was never fully addicted to caffeine, but I drank it every single day for practically my whole life. I decided to quit for a summer to see if it had any effect on me and it didn’t. But it was not hard at all.
I quit alcohol for a bit when I did start getting addicted. I would drink from 8am until I fell asleep every single day for months. Showed up to class drunk with a bottle in my hand everyday. It was harder to quit, and I definitely had some withdrawals, but I was able to quit completely to get myself back on track. It only took about a week or two until I was fine being sober.
Nicotine is a whole different story. The most luck I’ve had was using patches, but I was still getting the same amount of nicotine so it wasn’t really helping me quit, just helping my oral fixation. I want to quit so bad, but if I go more than 2 hours without getting some, I freak tf out. I’ve tried hiding it, I’ve tried replacing it with gum and food, I’ve tried hitting old pods, I’ve tried switching to tobacco flavor, I always just hit it regardless.
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0points
#14
So I think from personal experience, you really shouldn't compare caffeine too things like nicotine and alcohol which can kill you. And I know coffee can TECHNICALLY kill you but I mean the others are worse. But nicotine and achloal are way worse and more hard to break then coffee
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#15
For me it'd be nicotine....I smoke but I quite awhile back for like 2 yrs and then after I had a baby, I only got hr of sleep and had to drive my husband to work. Cause he don't have drivers license because he got dui like 7yr ago. Well I fell asleep on the way back and recked my car. I don't if it because I just had a baby or didn't get enough sleep. I think it the first. But all could think is if I'd had a cigarette while driving I would have not fail alsleep. So now I smoke again because of that thought.
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#16
Nicotine, definitely. Haven't given up caffeine or alcohol because they haven't been causing problems (I sometimes go quite long stretches without them without issues though), but I used to be a heavy smoker and kicking that habit was hella hard. Finally managed on my 5th try with the help of the medication you can get from the doctor. 10 years nicotine free now! 🎉
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#17
caffine. I'm a minor, with a love for coffee and energy drinks. Caffine is normalized more so than the others, I mean its JUST coffee right?
Final score:
-1point
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Donkey boi 2 years ago
I'm a bit late to party. I have a very addictive nature, and I have recovered from various substances. All I will say is that I quit drinking a damn sight easier than I did other things. I will quit smoking before the end of this year and I suspect it will be slightly harder than quitting drinking. I have no plans to quit coffee.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I'm a bit late to party. I have a very addictive nature, and I have recovered from various substances. All I will say is that I quit drinking a damn sight easier than I did other things. I will quit smoking before the end of this year and I suspect it will be slightly harder than quitting drinking. I have no plans to quit coffee.
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