when you think something is a potential danger to your body then you quit for yourself because you are doing yourself a favor.
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Drugs are not to be played with from my personal experience.
Get Drug Treatment if you need it and stay away because it's the best.

When I first started reading your blog, I was like,"That's crazy! Why would you get yourself addicted to it?" I only half understand, truly, why you would. I know that you just wanted to "test" yourself, but don't we already have enough people that are addicted to bad things in the world? What if it didn't work- what if you stayed addicted? However, I'm glad and amazed that you quit all those drugs.

Well, the optimist in me would agree to applaud you for quitting with ease.
However, the realist in me must caution you that over-confidence in your non-addictive personality should be curbed. I smoked for 20 years, and about 15 of them were not because of any addiction. In fact I smoked over 2 packs/day for 5-6 years, then dropped down to 3-5 cigarettes, a day without effort. I also quit for several months, and then started again for no particular reason. But I must say that I would NEVER presume to say that it is easy, that it is an emotional addiction, or that anyone can quit if they just have willpower. That would be ego and inexperience talking.
I'm glad that jumping in and out of dangerous addictions seems to be a suitable hobby for you, and hope that you survive to tell you grankids about the risks you took. But remember that you are one person, and "science experiments" are based on hundreds, thousands and millions of different responses averaged.

If quitting drugs/alcohol/cigarettes were as simple as the desire to quit and the person's willpower....don't you think that drug addiction would be almost non-existant. Reality check-Who wants to grow up and be a drug addict? Drug addiction/alcoholism/and wide spread use of cigarettes is an international epidemic. A killer that does is not biased of social status, gender, financial status, personality....etc...etc...I think making a general statement that boils down to...if you wanted to you could quit....is an naive statement!

I totally get that this worked for you, but I think it's important to remember that if it were that easy for everyone, we wouldn't see drugs and cigarettes ruining as many lives as they do. Your post might be really frustrating to read for people who are battling an addiction and can't seem to figure out what's "wrong" with them or why their willpower isn't enough. Once an addict gets hooked, willpower doesn't really have anything to do with quitting. It's a much bigger problem than that -- and willpower doesn't cover up the reasons they were using drugs in the first place. Just a thought, but usually people don't get themselves hooked on a bunch of drugs and cigarettes as a physical experiment if he/she knows the risks and dangers involved . . .

I actually quit for myself and then I also quit for my baby cause It is bad for me and the baby so just knw that I didn't quit cause I was pregnant I aslo quit cause I marrying someone that dnt like smoking

I just hope for people to see the drastic harm they're doing to their bodies. You have about 100 years or so to live. Some aren't so lucky and then others go over the limit and can hit 102 or whatever. Smoking is just one way to slowly burn your lungs away from the inside out. keitheandcindygurl, because you became pregnant, you stopped. Will you continue to drink and smoke once you've had your baby? You considered stopping for your baby, but what about stopping for yourself and your new born after the 9 months is up???

To tell you the truth I have quit everything as in smoking and in drinkning since I got pregnant

I agree with u but I think that when people say they cant stop It's because they wont stop either becouse problems or for the feeling of it!I dont know which but most of the students that do it is for problems they say it makes them fell better or forget there problems see some of the teens wanna get help but when they do the person that tries to help is blaming or make mattters worse!I think they should be able to talk to someone with out "Questions".U know how teans are they don't wanna talk but they do and U cant push so they need someone to be relaxed with.Some of the teans I meet cant go home because of family problems and stuff and they have no where to go.70% of our school does drugs in a daily bases and drink every day or weeekends and the wierd thing is they'll tell anyone even the teans they dont hang out with I think thats a cry for help but we dont know what to say to them and they dont get help from adults.

Diase, you're right. The person has to have confidence and some don't have the will power believing it's an addiction making it harder to quit. Both of my parents smoke and we've left notes on the door, on their packs, broken their packs, thrown them away. It's gotten really serious and I'm worried that I'll lose them at an early age. It's scary and my brothers and I have run out of options. We tried getting my mom into knitting and my dad going to the gym, but that dream only lasted about 3 days and then they both broke the promise. Any other ideas to help people quit???

Yeah I have to agree with you...(ugh not again....) because you have made alot of points that are true.

Physical addictions are easy to overcome. Sure, they can be lethal sometimes, but not in the vast majority of cases. They're easy because you can throw them off in a few days.

(Incidentally, marijuana is the only drug that comes to mind that is NOT physically addictive)

Mental addictions are much more powerful and profound because the very organ that is telling you to quit - your brain - is also telling you to continue, do to and take more and more. The MOST difficult thing to comprehend is the shear time scale - it takes years, maybe decades, to overcome strong mental addiction. It's hard and expensive.

I can't overemphasize how DANGEROUS mental addiction is. There is nothing I can say that will put the point across.

It's very true - some people don't have addictive personalities and its easy for them to quit. But its also been scientifically proven that certain drugs can be very addictive in certain people. Yes, there are many who don't want to quit, but I am sure there are also many people, both young and old, who want to quit (whatever substance, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes) and can't because they are both mentally and physically addicted...

Diase, what you said confirms what I have thought for a long time. The difficulty of quitting depends not on the substance, but on the person. I'm glad you have that kind of willpower.

I don't trust myself to start and then quit; that's why I cut short my marijuana use short of addiction and then came clean.

I think it's true, though, that the psychological addiction to any of these drugs is much stronger than the physical addiction.

Yes you have mentioned some great points, and I do agree with you, BUT some people don't know their limits. You are one of few who do.