Can you recognize?

Most people would recognize that an addiction to cigarettes is a very difficult thing to overcome. But is that more hype than reality? If we believe that an addiction is difficult, don’t we expect to struggle and in some cases even expect to fail? What if we viewed our addiction to cigarettes less of an addiction and more along the lines of a repetitive choice? What if we are choosing to light up ten, twenty, forty times a day or even more? Then couldn’t we choose, craving by craving, not to light up?The tobacco industry loves that we all believe we are addicted to cigarettes. In fact, they continue to try to convince us how heavy our addiction is by putting out products to help us quit. These products are often more expensive than a few packs of cigarettes and help us with our cravings. Many of the products that are designed to help break an addiction to cigarettes are put out by companies with holdings in the tobacco companies. The profits reach the same people.
The more we expect something to be difficult the more we anticipate we will falter. Yet if we believe whole heartedly that breaking our addiction to cigarettes is really not that big of a deal then we might be able to put them down for good when we want to. The mind is a very powerful tool, and it is just as powerful when breaking an addiction as it is in succumbing to an addiction. Perhaps if we all simply decided that we weren’t actually addicted to smoking but we were making a choice, it would be much easier to make the choice to not light up for a few days, and then a few days more, and maybe even a few days more.

The Addiction of Online Auctions

Online auctions are a wonderful way to shop for items that may not have been available to you from local stores but there must be caution issued that they can become an addiction. People have become addicted to shopping at a local mall or shopping via their television so it is not a stretch to believe that people can be addicted to online auctions.Undoubtedly there is the thrill of finding that hard to find item that you always have been searching for. And there is even a bigger thrill when the item is listed at an incredible bargain. So by all means enter a low bid and be sure to watch the item through emails that will be sent if the bid should increase. This is where the addiction probably starts. If the bidder is naturally competitive, they will watch an item and if someone else outbids them, they will feel the need to win that item back. Also, if it was perceived that the item was hard to find then the bidder will fear that they will never find this item again, at this wonderful price. Every time a bid is submitted the price of the item goes up and often the bidder will get caught up in not losing the item and will bid out of their original price range.To lose one’s proverbial head on an item or two can be expected; however for some it can be a full blown addiction. Online auctions create online communities and if the members start to know each other and become competitive with one another than this can fuel the fire more than anything else.

Computer games

According to experts, about 30% of the people, likes computer games, abused finding in the virtual, and 10% - are in the process of psychological dependence. So whether the games something of a drug? When and from whom conventional psychiatric discharge becomes dependent?
The phenomenon of psychological dependence rights of computer games is - claim psychologists. Many people hobby computer is not in favor, some of them are in need of serious psychological help. Violations of mental states they are visibly naked eye: a reduction in mood, health, activity, the deterioration of health up to depression, increased anxiety. For such people the real world is missing, uninteresting and full of dangers. As a result, they are trying to live in another world - a virtual, where everything is allowed, where he sets the rules of the game. Disadaptation, poor perception of themselves and the world - the main feature of computer games. In doing so, given the dependence of the surrounding people are aware of friends, relatives, acquaintances, but not himself.
The main criteria for determining the disease, experts believe the following:
unwillingness to be distracted from the game;
irritation with the forced diversion;
failure to plan the end of the conversation game;
spending big money to ensure the continuous updating of computer games and devices;
forgetting about the home, office, school, meetings and arrangements in the course of the game on your computer;
neglect their health, hygiene and sleep in favor of more time at the computer;
abuse of coffee and other similar factors;
willingness to address the irregular, random and monotonous food, not isolation from the computer;
a sense of emotional recovery during the game;
discuss issues with all of the game less knowledgeable in this area people.
Psychologists have argued that dependence on games appears much faster than any other traditional dependence: smoking, drugs, alcohol, etc. On average, requires no more than a half-year for its formation.