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Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2013 15:42:21 GMT -5
What vices have you dealt with over the years?
I've dealt with everything from Alcohol to Gluttony. How bout you? And how did you deal with it?
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Post by steve on Jul 31, 2013 15:01:09 GMT -5
Well I am a fairly clean living person and up until recently, have had excellent health though I do have a weakness for Tea. very english of me I know. I do like an nice English Ale too. Not very rock 'n roll I'm afraid. I do like food ( I eat nothing else)but I eat to live rather than the other way around. As for drugs- never really fel;t the need.
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Post by celeste on Aug 3, 2013 12:55:12 GMT -5
It is easy to go down the slippery slope that alcohol leads to. I just decided that I was sinking too low and quit. The only hard part was deciding. I feel much better without it.
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Post by earleg on Aug 4, 2013 16:31:17 GMT -5
Moderation - I guess "Other" includes musical equipment! Have to admit I'm not too good with that although trying....sort of.
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Post by Admin on Aug 12, 2013 19:14:39 GMT -5
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Post by rene on Jan 11, 2014 7:37:19 GMT -5
I've been stupid enough to go back to smoking cigarettes after quitting for 7 years. Still stuck with the habit after... well, it'll be 30 years since I fell back again for it. I like a drink every once in a while. I may have drank a little too much a little too often about 40 years ago, but I never really was an alcoholic. I mean I never had an addiction. But even 40 years later, I know I got to be careful. Because an addiction can start faster than you think. For instance, I bought myself a bottle of nice Scotch whisky (yes, this is how it's spelled in Scotland ) for the holidays, and its level has been dropping faster than I thought it would! And that's not being an alcoholic, that's being greedy, which I always was. But it makes me realize it's better for me not to keep alcohol in the house, even if I never was addicted. It could start just like that ( snaps fingers)! I've been trying to eat in a healthy manner for almost 3 years now, because I was facing health issues (hernia, diabetes, cholesterol) because of the big fat belly I had grown out of eating junk food (out of pure layness). Today I have arthrosis in my lower spine because of it, even after I lost about 50 pounds. It was too late, the damage was done. And then there were drugs. I've been a pothead for exactly 5 years, from the age of 17 to 22 years old. I quit completly when I decided I wasn't able to handle the thing. I was feeling like a wino, except instead of wine, it was pot. I took 2 puffs on a doobie 10 years after I quit, and what that did to me confirmed that I didn't want to take back the habit. I've never touched it again since. I tried LSD 2 or 3 times in my late teens. Took me a couple of weeks everytime to get back to normal. Never tried it again after that. I need my strong black coffee in the morning. Can't function without it. But my biggest addiction these days is the computer. Dang! Can't get away from it except when I fly away for a couple of weeks to attend blues events and visit blues sites in the States.
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Post by steve on Jan 11, 2014 17:29:26 GMT -5
Here I am reading this whilst enjoying a nice pint of English beer ( it is my third tonight so not too bad) but I am not gigging for a change so I am chilling and catching up with a few things. A rare not of relaxation and I am bloody loving it. The beer is what you Americans would probably call warm whereas it is actually at around room temperature. It is a nice Bitter ale- very hoppy and quote potent too. So my clean living bit goes out of the window.
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Post by tom1960 on Jan 12, 2014 7:32:16 GMT -5
Does obsessive music collecting count? If so, I'm hooked!
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Post by poetrylover3 on Jan 12, 2014 8:40:43 GMT -5
Alcohol & Pot until 1986. Until 1986 I never met a mood altering drug I didn't like, eschewing only heroin as I hate needles. I struggle with over-eating today and am a type 2 diabetic.
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Post by billf on Jan 12, 2014 8:47:20 GMT -5
Does obsessive music collecting count? If so, I'm hooked!
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Post by tom1960 on Jan 12, 2014 11:01:10 GMT -5
Does obsessive music collecting count? If so, I'm hooked! Brilliant! That's me in a nutshell.
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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2014 7:07:35 GMT -5
LOL Patrick, that sounds like a terrible "vice" or is it "vise" I started thinking how vices are resolved over time as you age...I had to quit smoking after I was diagnosed with COPD. I had to quit drinking when my blood sugars skyrocketed. Pot and other mind altering drugs were gone when I became a parent. And sex, well I won't discuss that...so I guess I lead a pretty clean life now out of necessity. (Reaches for my third cup of coffee this morning)...Darn!!
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Post by jlhooker on Jan 14, 2014 16:25:59 GMT -5
Whiskey an wimmen!! JLHooker
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Post by Pistol Pete on Feb 3, 2014 6:01:25 GMT -5
I suppose I drink a little more than my doctor tells me I should, and a little less than most of the musicians I know. Mid-way through January I decided it had got a bit too expensive a habit, so I've stopped drinking at all on a 3 or 4 nights a week to see if I can save a little money and maybe lose an inch or two round the middle.
Never been into anything illegal, although I tried a couple of things in my youth. Three cups of coffee a day and a love of fine food are my weaknesses mostly.
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Post by geezer on Feb 21, 2014 17:10:06 GMT -5
Well,
When my youngest son was about to celebrate his eighth birthday, I asked him what he wanted for a gift. His Response? "I want you to stop smoking, Dad." Well, what choice did I have? I signed up for a local quit smoking clinic and got rid of a three-pack-a-day habit in just six days. That was 23 years ago.
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