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Say What? Hypnotherapist: Quitting Smoking Like Breaking Up
Look, we had some great times together and a lot of fun, but now I feel we are moving in different directions and I need to end this relationship.
— Natasha Bishop to her cigarette habit of 10 years. She took the advice of a hypnotherapist who says that one way to quit smoking is to have a breakup conversation with your cigarettes.
Runner's High Is as Addictive as Opiates
If you're a runner, you're probably familiar with runner's high. You know — that energetic, overwhelmingly awesome feeling you experience after a workout that makes you feel like the happiest person alive. The feel-good sensations come when endorphins are released from your brain, and new research shows that a runner's high mimics the same sense of euphoria as drug use.
Marijuana vs. Booze: Between Pot and a Hard Place
When Michael Phelps partied at the University of South Carolina last November, he was reportedly slamming beers and acting obnoxious. But it was smoking marijuana out of a bong that got him suspended from swimming and dropped by sponsors. In the forthcoming book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?, authors Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert wonder if our country has it all backwards.
Have Cafe Novelists Replaced Boozin' Writers?
In the past, the writer's life was often a lush life. Many great American novelists — including Ernest Hemingway and John Cheever — were notorious drunks. In fact, according to an article by Tom Shone in the new issue of More Intelligent Life, five of America's seven Nobel literary laureates were alcoholics:
In America William Faulkner and Scott Fitzgerald were the Paris and Britney of their day, caught in the funhouse mirror of fame, their careers a vivid tabloid mash-up of hospitalizations and electroshock therapies.
Is There Such a Thing as a Running Addiction?
Recently in an interview with Runner's World, hip-hop artist Eminem talked about running and admitted that:
"You kind of go from one addiction to the next. And I'm an addict. It was a little too much; it was a little extreme.
Say What? Paula Abdul Talks Pills
“I could have killed myself. . .
Paula Abdul's Addiction to Pain Meds
Addiction is powerful, and when dealing with extreme amounts of pain, it can affect anyone. In a recent issue of Ladies' Home Journal, Paula Abdul, who's turning 47 this month, opened up about her addiction to pain meds. For the first time in 12 years she's no longer dependent on drugs.
How to Spot a High-Functioning Alcoholic
High-functioning alcoholics are often considered a hidden class of addict, but I've met more than a few of them in my life. So has Sarah Allen Benton, a recovering high-functioning alcoholic who just released a book about the disease: Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic.
According to Benton, a so-called HFA is someone who lives a seemingly normal life, often balancing family or romance with a successful career, while also abusing alcohol — and often denying it.
Do Tell: Has an Addiction Ever Ruined Your Relationship?
Being an addict has the ability to completely consume every aspect of your life, which can make it difficult to have a successful relationship. And since addictions come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, I wouldn't be surprised if an addiction to work, gambling, drinking, drugs, gaming, or shopping, just to name a few, has affected one your relationships. So ladies, tell me, has addiction ever played a role in any of your relationships?
Group Therapy: Is My Boyfriend a Sex Addict?
I have been with my boyfriend for a little over a year, and we live together. I always knew he was flirtatious but never really thought anything of it. The last couple of months, though, things have been a bit weird — we've been fighting a lot and I felt like he was being secretive and hiding things from me.
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