Latifa wrote
When I was younger it was whatever I could afford at the time and so if I had to get a cheaper brand then I would but now I stick to the lighter cigarettes and normally Marlboro lights too, Benson and Hedges were a favourite at one time but now they choke me to death!

Latifa wrote
Yep the prices will increase and it will put off a few of us but for others it will definitely not do anything, I love fast food and only over the last year have changed my eating habits but would always go to McDonalds on my lunch break as it used to be the cheapest thing around to buy and the quickest.

Panda11 wrote

Babies conceived
during a period of famine are at risk for developing addictions later in
life. Modern brain research has shown
that if the brain is not able to develop at normal rates while the child is in
the womb, neuro-developmental abnormalities can occur which give rise to
susceptibility to addiction.

BettyBlue wrote
I know this is a site where anyone can read posts and threads, so I won't get too graphic here, but I am wondering if sexually-active people can get addicted to a specific sex act. For instance, if a man or woman wants oral sex all the time, is that to be considered a mere fetish, or is it a true addiction?

alexdg1 wrote

Quenlin wrote From personal experience, edit buttons are more trouble than they're worth, it's too easy to offend a huge amount of people, and then edit your post to make them sound like the bad guys. I see it all the time. Although, deleting posts would be a good feature to have.

Yes, deleting posts WOULD be really good, especially when members (like me, for instance) accidentally double-post, like I just did in another thread!

alexdg1 wrote
As we all know, there is a lot of pressure - some of it valid for health reasons, some of it not - on people, particularly women, to lose weight.

Many companies, including snack food and soft drink manufacturers, make billions of dollars with diet versions of their "junk" food and sodas, promising consumers that their products are healthy and will help them lose weight.

The truth is, though, that diet sodas are really more harmful than the bottlers would have the public know. Not only do the artificial sweeteners mess up the brain by making it think it's tasting sugar when it's not, but they mess up the metabolism and, eventually, people who drink diet sodas eventually gain weight.

Thing is, we told a relative of ours who is constantly buying and drinking Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi all this, and she said, point blank: "Oh, I don't drink diet sodas anymore." Which, sadly, isn't true. She bought diet sodas as late as last week.

How can someone lie like this? Is she in denial, or what?

Quenlin wrote
He died from an accidental overdose. Besides, who cares about celebs? Some guy has died from too many sleeping pills, la-dee-da. Happens thousands of times a year.

It's not as though he was addicted to drugs.

alexdg1 wrote
Hi all.

I have a really difficult situation at home - I have a relative who has always had anger-management and self-esteem issues, as well as a penchant for odd behavior. For instance, a few weeks ago she came over for dinner and, because we were watching the end of a movie on a DVD, she went off to the living room and sulked rather than (a) join us or (b) choose another movie we could have enjoyed together. She also does horrible things to others, then denies she ever did them and will insist that she's never in the wrong, while everyone else is.

Thing is, I'm convinced my relative is mentally ill, but the rest of the family insists that it's just odd behavior and that she's mentally fit.

Are there any tried-and-true methods to test this?

Quenlin wrote
It's a neurological thing? I thought he had suffered a stroke and that's why he walked and talked a little odd.

All I know is that Ozzy is rather crazy, good singer, but he has some serious issues upstairs. Probably due to drugs, remember when he bit that animals head off? How in the Hell did he stay outside a nuthouse after pulling that off?

Quenlin wrote
My uncle chews tobacco and he thinks that it's safer because it doesn't go into the lungs, I don't know for sure but I seriously doubt it. Don't know why you would chew it, because you can't exactly swallow it without getting a really upset stomach.

Can anyone set the record straight? I don't want him to wind up getting mouth cancer.

alexdg1 wrote

Leighdu wrote JazzyAllie wrote It's hard to tell whether things you hear about her are fake or real, but yes it was a hugh ordeal also when they came to physically take them away from her. She required a lot of attention but she's pushed everyone out of her life including her kids. I read somewhere that she is working hard to get her kids back. I wish her luck with that. Celebrity or not, that has to be extremely tough on her.

I don't mean to sound mean or harsh; I'm sure that Britney used to be a nice girl before she became Britney Spears Inc and fell prey to the celebrity black hole that sucks a lot of people in, but still, she surrounded herself with a clique of yes-men and yes-girls who don't know how to tell her that she's a train wreck, metaphorically speaking.

Frosty011 wrote
I can't see how people with so much talent can just throw it all away for some powder. They're suposed to be role models but they're just contributing to others becoming drug users. Celebrities influence kids and their fans so much I swear. That's so sad though it seems like celebrities dying from substance abuse is on the rise more than ever!

Quenlin wrote
Well, since my girl dumped me, I'll be spending Valentines day munching on chocolates and hugging a big pink teddybear to ease my grief. With a devious smile on my face.

Maybe I'll give them to that cute girl in town, she loves chocolate. <3

megan22 wrote
Is it the craving for nicotine for you, the fact that you don't have a smoke in your hand, or just the fact that you have done it so long that you would feel odd not smoking anymore?

Wall E wrote
All of those ad campaigns and commercials that keep saying "Quit Smoking," are actually just triggers for you to smoke. Whenever we see sentences like those or "Don't Smoke," all we see is the smoke part, so it triggers our brains to start craving. So, the proper way to say it without creating a trigger is to say Breath Free or something like that.