What should I do to give up an addiction?

I hear addiction is like choking every single day. It surrounds you. Eating at what you love, and what you need like a poison sucking up your blood. At least, this is applied to drug abuse. Not every addiction is a self sacrificing kind. There are healthy addictions and non healthy addictions.

Its picking what addictions are becoming harmful for your life that is the hard part. Due to addiction being a need not a want its hard to determine where it starts to ruin your life because half the time a person is absorbed in needing the addiction. However, there are healthy addictions that allow us to continue to live a normal life without it being harmful to us.

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Understanding the kind of addiction

Just like learning how to ride a bike we need to make sense of our own addictions. Before you decide if you should give up an addiction you must first understand what the addiction is doing to you.Which is the same reason why we start with training wheels when it comes to riding a bike. We need to understand what the bike is doing before we can ride it on our own.