Addictions - What is hardest one to quit?

[Spleen]

The answer to OP's question has been answered by everyone in the thread. It's obviously different for everyone.

Cigarettes for me was much easier than I thought. I had smoked over a pack a day for 13 years. When I found out my son was on the way I decided that I would quit soon so he wouldn't have to live around it and with hopes that I would be able to spend time with him as an adult w/o having to carry around an oxygen tank with me. One day I got sick ( regualr flu stuff) and was unable to smoke due to a sore throat, went a whole day w/o one and never looked back. I spent the first few days a little nervous but chewed a lot of gum and stayed out of bars and all was well. January was three years and haven't had a drag. I have had dreams that I slipped up and have gotten real shitfaced and thought maybe it was possible but it is unlikely that I have. I don;t jones for smokes at all or really since the first few weeks have even a craving for one. That was easy.

My MMORPG was very hard and seemed pretty ridiculous to me that I couldn't stop but w/e. I ended up quitting a job over EQ my grades were [censored], lol was terrible over a stupid video game. To this day this is no doubt the hardest, I have to force myself to stay away from all video game sections, websites, stores, etc. I always knwo if I ever slip into a deep depression this will be the first one to come back no doubt, especailly if I have a lot of free time. Both of those habits have one thing in common in that I truly realized I needed to stop or bad things would happen. Weed is another issue in that I am in complete denial of it being a bad thing. I have no intent on quitting any time soon same goes with poker. I still ahve a ways to go with addictions but they can be beaten, as long as I challnge myself to do it. I really didn't mean to ramble on like this. When I do this sort of thing I usually just delete the entire post, probably will do it to this one too.

Oh yea, caffeine was a pretty dumb thing to not be able to quit but w/e I have dropped back to like maybe one or two caffeinated (sp?) bevs a day instead of a dozen so thats a small victory I suppose.

I recognize I will possibly do many of these things again in the future, but the smoking addiction I truly do appreciate how important quitting that was, when I see someone I care about smoking I truly get a little sad in a not teh gay kind of way. I only give my "you should quit that [censored]" blurb about once a month and only to the people I don't want to die sooner than later. It's only a one sentence speech and they don't want to hear it but w/e.

lol sorry for all that , funny thing is I am certified to teach Middle school English, I just don'ty give a [censored].