By Omowunmi Oladokun
Addiction is the inability to put an end to a harmful act or behaviour despite being aware of its harmful nature. Addiction is a bad behaviour because excess of everything is bad and can be damaging to your health.
Examples of things that people could be addicted to : Drugs, Food, Alcohol, Sex, Porn e.t.c.
HOW TO STOP AN ADDICTION.
1.Distract yourself : learn to do something else deliberately. Whenever the urge comes to you to do that, you deliberately change it and engage in something more meaningful e.g read a book, go for exercise, turn on your music stereo e.t.c
2.Change your peers: we all know that bad communication corrupt good manners. Changing your friends may change your focus and at the end of it all, you stop behaving like them and start learning good habits.
3.Talk to a Trusted Therapist : seeing a therapist and communicating with them may help put a lasting solution to addiction. A problem shared is a problem half solved, they will definitely walk with you through the journey of getting over the problem.
4. Learning from other people’s experience: one of the ways to get rid of addiction is to learn from others and let that correct you nicely. For example: if your friend died of drug abuse, that should be a deterrence to you and others to stop engaging in negative act.
5. Change your environment: people’s environment determine there behaviour especially those who travel abroad. Changing your environment can also change your behaviour drastically.
In conclusion, nobody gets by with addiction, with time, it starts telling on your health and physique. We must learn to deliberately inculcate new behaviours even as we age.
