Could your future cigarette purchase come with a little less nicotine? It’s possible, as the FDA revealed today a new multi-year roadmap intended to protect kids and reduce tobacco-related disease and death. [More]
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Scientists Claim Man Became Addicted To Google Glass, Suffered Withdrawal
By 10.15.14
At one point or another you’ve probably joked with friends that you’ve become addicted to something on the internet: Cute kitten videos, absurd quizzes or a variety of other semi-entertaining online phenomena. While you probably weren’t actually dependent on any of those things, scientists in California claim they’ve treated the first person with internet addiction brought on by overuse of Google Glass. [More]
Humorist David Sedaris Acquires A Fitbit, Then A Debilitating Fitbit Addiction
By 6.24.14
Sometimes new technology and an addictive personality don’t really mix. At least when humorist David Sedaris acquired a Fitbit Flex wristband, the end result was that he spent hours walking back roads in the English countryside, racking up tens of thousands of steps. [More]
Tips To Stop Yourself From Gambling
By 4.2.11
No matter how successful they are at making money, compulsive gamblers can lose it all and more if they succumb to their addictions. HealthGuidance offers advice on how to curtail the impulse to risk it all. [More]
Will This Vaccine Cure Smoking?
By 11.24.09
Meet NicVax, the opposite of the cool kids at the bus stop in 7th grade who got you to try a cigarette for the first time. [More]
Download This Free Game If You Never Want To Get Anything Done Again
By 7.9.09
If you’re lacking for addictions in your life, you may as well download the free new PC game, Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition.
By 1.21.09
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A woman in Sweden has been granted the right to seek inpatient treatment for her Coke addiction — no, not that kind. Coca-Cola. [MomLogic]
Sadness Makes You Spend More
By 8.18.08
Is [it] a biologically driven disease of the brain, a learned habit run amok, an addiction in its own right or a symptom of the other dysfunctions—most notably depression—that so often accompany it?
Woman Embezzled $2.89 Million To Finance Shopping Addiction
By 10.31.07
Shopping addiction is really sad, especially when it compels otherwise normal people to do something insane like steal $2.89 million dollars just to buy shoes and jewelry.
10 Ways To Break A Compulsive Spending Habit
By 10.3.07
“Addictive spending is often rooted in punishing feelings of low self-esteem and problems with impulse control,” says an addiction specialist in an MSNBC special report on compulsive spending. At its worst, it can wreak as much or more damage on your finances as any full-blown gambling, drinking, or drug addiction—and yet, a lot of people still consider it a moral failing that sheer will-power can prevent (just take a look at half the comment threads on this blog for evidence of that mindset). If you’re a compulsive spender, odds are you already know if you have a problem, even if you manage to hide it from everyone else. But here are ten ways to help get a grip on the situation.
Specific Brain Injury Stops Smoking Addiction
By 1.26.07
In Clue to Addiction, Brain Injury Halts Smoking [NYT]
Addicted to Cool: Menthol Cigarettes Are Harder to Quit
By 9.26.06
Is the minty freshness of menthol cigarettes more addicting than regular cigarettes?
Akron Asks Hobos To Wear Badges
By 6.20.06
I’m an easy mark for panhandlers. One time, when visiting a friend in Chicago, I was waiting to meet her on a street corner when a single, fairly respectable hobo came up and asked for a dollar for some booze. This is the sort of honesty that speaks to me in a bum, so I gave it to him. Five minutes later, I was throwing all my bills into the air and weeping in despair as a cloud of homeless people swarmed about me, snatching the fluttering green pieces of paper from the air and shouting for more.
