72-year old smoker explains seductive potential of addiction
It’s ecstasy, not happiness
Addiction is not powerful. You are powerless when addicted. It’s the willpower of You! being hushed quietly. It’s not the drug itself. It’s You! who have an excuse to embrace your addiction. THAT EXCUSE IS POWERFUL.
“Motivation — Trigger — Behavior — Reward — — Deprival —Craving — — Motivation — Trigger — Behavior — Reward — — Deprival —Craving — and the cycle continues. A simple cycle to locate! bottomless to be within!” He smirked while enjoying a puff of cigarette. At 72, quite healthy! despite being a smoker. “Strong will power! That’s it! I whipped back my addiction into a habit! Now, I enjoy it occasionally.” He claimed.
He described addiction as a reach through guide towards cure. It includes a process of acceptance. Make sure you follow illustrations guided by his CONFESSIONS:
“Addiction comes naturally to us”:
Genetic makeup, socioeconomic culture, mental illness, company of addicts, trauma, basic instincts inclined towards ecstasy, whatever the reason is, condemnation is all yours! Addiction is not a habit developed, It’s a personification. You develop yourself inside your habit. At the same time, habit turns into addiction. It’s natural, SO! inevitable, if it approaches you.
“Addiction Empire is universal”:
Alcohol, heroin, cocaine, why slang projections always? you can get addicted to someone you love deeply. Cord of its domain lies inside you, stretches across the whole planet. We all are addicted to somebody, something, or someplace. Bad habits roll up the whole chapter of addiction. Because it satisfies our ethical norms. Universal truth remains universal, no matter what! We all are prone to an addiction slap! loud enough to pierce the grace of our arched zygomatic.
“We dream about it all the time”:
“When we believe ‘reality is cruel’, dreams look real, That’s my definition of Addiction.” You are sitting in a ‘no smoking allowed’ cabin to perform your daily task, you dream about puffing a cigarette in your street. You are in bed with your girlfriend, you want to kick her out of bed only to smoke a cigarette. It’s a psychological stimulus. You idealize relishing addiction all the time. The whole day, you dream about having a glass of alcohol. Who the stupid is going to demolish the maladaptive fantasy? At least not an addict! Sitting in a group of friends, you are idealizing watching porn late at night. A gust of idealization seems like dopamine knocks at the door. Full-fledged fantasy! More fanatical you are! more addictive you will become.
“We exploit our emotions”:
Love, hate, anger, disgust whatever it is! You do exploit every emotion of yours. Addiction disguises all of your primitive emotions which eventually got bankrupted. Healing is rare. Emotional debt burden your soul. It makes you more yielding towards addiction. “Cycle adds emotional debts into it and does continue, unfortunately! it gives an extra amount of push up to this shit.”
“Goodbye to sleep, welcome to addiction”:
That’s how it is never going to end. You had an excellent sleep. It’s morning time now! But you can’t get out of your bed without puffing a cigarette, taking a glass of wine, smoking a weed, drinking a cup of coffee, or scrolling your social media timeline! How pitiable you are! “That’s where it started. That’s how it is diagnosed. Here lies a trick to cure it.” Alas! “Early diagnosis — early recovery.” Damn true!
“Before it’s addictive, it’s psychological”:
Is addiction not psychological at all? Well, it is! This confession is about a shift between power and lassitude. The initial outbreak is in control of your psyche. Assaulted by a surge of pleasure, the poor psyche wins the race rarely.
“At this point! it’s controllable. We might think, Why would one control it when it’s giving an ultrasonic pleasure. Yet it’s a start, by the way. Who cares for death or life when immediate dopamine is at the door.” Habit, while practised, takes time to become an addiction. It’s a sort of evolution. Evolution, once started, does happen to its ultimate goal. A competition between habit and your immunity (cognition, resistance) crops up. ‘Thing’ fighting better for ‘THE UNCOMFORTABLE YOU’ wins the race. Routine starts producing offspring. It conquers over the planet of your personality.
“Oops! it’s an addiction! Time can’t relapse. Evolution is over. Can’t be reversed. Too late to know the facts and figures. Most young boys around you who smoke can throw away the bad habit with a small bit of psychological trick. They will not, actually. none of them! Psychological rush of dopamine and socially rich generation! An excellent match up” I still remembered the laugh. It’s true, an age where you could be passionate about anything, you choose to chase trends. We are slaves of primitive kinds of desires, couldn’t tame them thoroughly. We get manipulated by this innate adulthood thing. Manipulation is too enticing to rule over your psyche.
“Crazy Blind person we become is the hardest struggle to handle”:
Addiction is kind of an appetite, don’t know for what? and where to go with such an immediate high amount of energy. That’s when it is seduced by everything visual. It can lead you to nowhere. It’s like a burst of your focal point. Addictive people Once develop focus, can hold it too long. Addiction gifts you this thing by manipulating a zone of ADHD for all addicts. In long term this focus is going to disrupt into its own domain, presenting no more guide to destination. You are crazy but irrational. You follow the path crafted by fantasy. A route of pleasure indeed!
“It’s seductive, not suggestive”:
Seduction is essential if you are in love. To fall in love, seduction is lethal. “Runaway if anything seductive approaches you, it will overwhelm you One day. you will be taking a few sips, after a week you will be tiring upon yourself for not having it. You wouldn’t remember, it’s alcohol!” because the thing you crave for, is the same thing you are in need of, right now! You can go where eyes could catch reality. That’s where addiction does domesticate you. It would imprison you in its cage to show you the world of its choice. We are prone to addictions via our DNA. The drug only makes us inclined to our yielding potential. Addictive cage is the DNA. Trigger/drug is the watchman of cage. In presence of security, DNA can grow itself from scrap. It evolves, keep evolving, until you become an addict.
“It’s ecstasy, not happiness”:
Happiness has a boundary beyond which it’s called pleasure. Addiction is pleasurable, to extent of infinity. Happiness is a primitive feeling, descended from our ancestors. It’s an emotion to feel a good thing in your guts. Pleasure is a maladaptive form of happiness. Its peak is ‘Ecstasy’. Happiness has slow onset. It lasts longer. Pleasure has a fast onset. It breaks down into its circuit immediately. It resides inside the pleasure center of brain. All other brain areas disconnected, numbed! as well. The whole body is paralyzed. You take actions by command inside that euphoric brain center. It starts to utilize your body as a source of pleasure. Ouch! a miserable puppet, you are!
“It’s replacable, not quittable”:
Addiction is not static at all. It keeps on changing its domain. At one time you are a smoker, the very next moment you become a drug addict. Addictive behaviors are intermingling. All relying upon each other. All connected through stormy circuits inside our brain. Polyaddiction is ‘Addiction’ itself. It’s never relying on a single trigger. It does involve a party trigger.
How to neutralize addiction? The answer lies inside its realm of occurrence. It’s simple but tough. To dodge addiction, counteract its addictive existence. Bring a suitable competitor to your addiction. Make it sit there right in place of your addiction. (e.g. Go back to your hometown to spend time with your children. Go back to your job as you are a graduate of commerce. Fall in love with a pretty girl in the next street.) Find an alternative, strong enough to be able to face the ugly addiction of yours. If you quit it, chances of relapse are common. AFTER ALL, IT’S ALLURING. Replace gear creates an anti reaction over addiction. It changes the growth pattern from roots, mold you into another addict, but a better one!
If you grasp the seduction phenomenon of addiction, you would be no more seduced by it. It intoxicates you for the same reason. Get your cognition in your control. That’s the only way through!
