| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Addiction"],"appCategory":"Addiction","appTitle":"How did you get rid of any form of addiction?","appBody":"<p>Addictions are bad habits we pick up while passing through different phases in life. It can be sex, gambling, smoking etc</p><p>I was addicted to swearing and it caused some problems for me </p><p>I left my addictions when I used these methods</p><p>•Accepting the fact that I'm an addict</p><p>This is the first and hardest step to get rid of an addiction. I remember placing bets that I wouldn't swear only to loose in munites. This was when I knew that I had to embrace the</p><p>•Don't get too hard on your self</p><p>Doing harmful things like slapping your self or bieng tough on yourself will only create the opposite effect we desire. It's been discovered that the more we resist a bad habit the more we succumb to it. I accepted this and made a new rule to reduce the number of times I swear a day rather than stop swearing which was impossible.</p><p>• Form a positive counter habit</p><p>I learned to switch curse words with rhyming words. This way instead of cursing I use them.</p><p>Also, avoid whatever triggers your addiction so as to prevent submission to your old ways.</p><p>Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day but don't give up. As long as you're willing get rid of an addiction, you're on the right path.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pknryky9x","appParentAuthor":"egbedawoman","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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