Suckling on the breastless-nipple of an addiction will make a sad sucker out of anyone. Tip: Fear of losing out<>not knowing when to quit = dumb sucker.

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Even though suckling on addiction lacks any useful moral-nutrition, it can sustain a sad-sucker’s delusions. However, whether it be drugs, alcohol, gambling or throwing rocks at a full-moon, a harmful obsession or addiction is when your habitual behaviours end up causing harm to others or yourself (even if it is by accidentally hitting yourself or an innocent bystander with a rock).

 

​A particular draining symptom of addiction can be likened to having moral-anorexia that increasingly starves yourself of the very moral-nourishments, such as self-respect, control, esteem, etc. that can help you give up on their habit.

 

​Yet, let it be very clear, although, the suppliers of the means of addiction, narcotics, gambling, drink etc, will gleefully try and sucker-punch their clients - it’s always the addicts who holds themselves up to be sucker punched – which means it’s always the addict that has a grip on the addiction and never the other way around.

Tips:

Dump all guilt about becoming addicted.

Take responsibility for giving up on addiction by remembering, it is always the addict who has the hold on his or her addiction, and never the other way around.

​Of course, giving up on your addiction means giving up on the so-called gains you get from it - but not on the many things that you can get from the vast number of non-addictive challenges and pastimes your free to pursuit.

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Tips: 1. to reduce and eventually give up on your addiction -  Gradually increase the time periods between giving in to your addiction.

Note: Whether or not you steal to fund your addiction, the moral bankruptcy equation applies i.e. If you’re not that easily pleased, then addiction will be worth about as much to you as if you’re easily pleased.

2. Go out or stay in, but actively feed some of nourishing qualities that have been neglected during your addiction, such as, empathy, openness, honesty/self-control etc.

3. Contact any of increasing number of online advice sites and drop-in centres that can deliver substantial support in giving up on an addiction.

​4. Change the song of your addiction (see “Trust yourself by mistrusting crime.”​page). 

5. Use diversion and distraction exercises (see Other useful exercises page)  

​Punch through and past your urges and withdrawal discomforts by using sheer stubborn defiance.

6. ​​Deliver your own sucker punch by simply ignoring any thought or urge that is associated with your addiction (ignorance can be bliss!).

​7.Recognise that the more you bypass the lures of addiction, the more they will pass you bye.

​And finally: ‘Come on. Stand up. Do what’s right! Fight for your-inner child.’ 

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