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Originally Posted by Zeraph
I usually drink a lot of caffeine for instance (~5 cups of strong coffee a day) but every couple of months I'll quit so my tolerance goes down. I have no trouble quitting, no headaches, no need, nada. I do the same thing with smoking a pipe and a few other drugs. People talk about how hard it is to quite smoking or something and I have no idea what they mean.
I don't mean for this to come off as a brag, but to help define what we're talking about. I know I can build up a physical tolerance. But I don't build up any addiction. I'm not sure if that's something physical or mental. Personally I think its physical.
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I think sometimes it comes before mental and physical responses - that it is genetic. Addiction often runs in families.
I feel like I am the same way as you, to some extent, but different. I
love the big three - coffee, alcohol, cigarettes - and I will crave them sometimes when I don't have them, but never feel like I
have to have them.
But, and it sounds weird, I know, coming from a family with a long history of addiction, I almost feel like I have an addiction switch - and that if I were to flick it 'on' I could be a pretty talented alcoholic. At least, when I do drink, I am aware of that feeling that compels a person to keep drinking. Only, for some reason, I don't.