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I don't know if they still do it or not, but AA used to encourage its

members to *start* smoking, if they didn't already. As recently as 10 years

ago, they encouraged their members to eat, rather than drink. A LOT of AA

members ended up in OA. I guess AA just feels that any other addiction is

preferable to alcohol addiction, and if their members get hooked on

something else, let someone else help them!

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> I somehow have the need to trade one addiction for another. A friend of

> mine is an alcoholic and saw him do the same thing with smoking and then

> drugs.

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, they don't (at least not at the meetings I've attended, dealing with

my OWN addictions) do that anymore.

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Re: RE: Cross Addictions

I don't know if they still do it or not, but AA used to encourage its

members to *start* smoking, if they didn't already. As recently as 10 years

ago, they encouraged their members to eat, rather than drink. A LOT of AA

members ended up in OA. I guess AA just feels that any other addiction is

preferable to alcohol addiction, and if their members get hooked on

something else, let someone else help them!

---

Start weight 365#

Lap RnY, Distal - Dr. s

Vanderbilt University Hospital

Surgery date June 3, 2002

Current weight 199.5#

----- Original Message -----

....

> I somehow have the need to trade one addiction for another. A friend of

> mine is an alcoholic and saw him do the same thing with smoking and then

> drugs.

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That truly is a sad state of affairs. I guess it is much better to die

of lung cancer or a co-morbidity due to over eating then to die of

cirrhosis of the liver. (Umm not.) Fortunately not all AA groups are

that way.

Lori Owen - Denton, Texas

SRVG 7/16/01

Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:06:59 -0500 writes:

> I don't know if they still do it or not, but AA used to encourage

> its

> members to *start* smoking, if they didn't already. As recently as

> 10 years

> ago, they encouraged their members to eat, rather than drink. A LOT

> of AA

> members ended up in OA. I guess AA just feels that any other

> addiction is

> preferable to alcohol addiction, and if their members get hooked on

> something else, let someone else help them!

>

>

> ---

> Start weight 365#

> Lap RnY, Distal - Dr. s

> Vanderbilt University Hospital

> Surgery date June 3, 2002

> Current weight 199.5#

>

> ----- Original Message -----

>

> ...

> > I somehow have the need to trade one addiction for another. A

> friend of

> > mine is an alcoholic and saw him do the same thing with smoking

> and then

> > drugs.

>

>

>

> Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG

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> Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe

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Yep, I resemble that remark. I swear that in my drinking days, that was

one thing that could keep my weight down was drinking. When I gave up

the booze I had nothing to turn to but the food (or so I thought.) Since

alcohol converts to sugar rather quickly it only makes sense that sugar

would give us that same high.

Lori Owen - Denton, Texas

SRVG 7/16/01

Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:46:49 -0400 " nancy pugliese "

writes:

> My brother in law went thru AA. He gained about 30 lb. afterward.

> He said

> they told him that ex alcoholics tend to take up eating " sugar "

> because it

> actually simulates the same " feeling " as alcohol. P.

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>

>

> > I don't know if they still do it or not, but AA used to encourage

> its

> > members to *start* smoking, if they didn't already. As recently as

> 10

> years

> > ago, they encouraged their members to eat, rather than drink. A

> LOT of AA

> > members ended up in OA. I guess AA just feels that any other

> addiction is

> > preferable to alcohol addiction, and if their members get hooked

> on

> > something else, let someone else help them!

> >

> >

> > ---

> > Start weight 365#

> > Lap RnY, Distal - Dr. s

> > Vanderbilt University Hospital

> > Surgery date June 3, 2002

> > Current weight 199.5#

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What is a good addictive behaviour? I know people who are addicted to

cleaning and exercising to the point of excluding everything and

everybody in their life. I had a friend that literally exercised 6 to 8

hours a day. I'm not sure that is healthier then an eating addiction.

My own personal opinion is that it is better to have everthing in

moderation.

Lori Owen - Denton, Texas

SRVG 7/16/01

Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:03:54 -0000 " c_raia " writes:

> Has anyone been really successful in doing this, substituting

> a " good " addictive behavior or compulsion for a bad one? Cleaning

> instead of eating, exercising instead of shopping, that sort of

> thing? Is it possible? Any tips for successfully doing it? It

> would sure be useful!

>

> Celia

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Hi folks,

I don't know about AA-I was just a " drunk " , never went to meetings (way in

my past, thank God!) but I have always believed that the food addiction was

the same as the booze addiction. I maintained my weight around 200 lbs

while I was a drinker/socializer. I worked at a physical job

(janitorial/housekeeping) and went dancing and drinking 7 nights a week.

When I quit drinking, I quit the partying-then started working in office

settings. All changes were prompted, originally, by a horrible car wreck 26

years ago. I wasn't driving-just a passenger and no alcohol involved.

Anyhow, I do get a similar feeling from sugar that I got from alcohol.

Alcohol is a sugar product, of sorts anyway.

I am glad I gave it up alcohol several years ago, and only miss a good

Italian red wine when the cold Alaskan winter nights set in. I gave up the

alcohol when I became pregnant with my daughter, and continued the

abstinence since then due to religious convictions. I have no regrets-it is

one more thing in my life that I can control.

Oh how nice it would be for me if I could just give up food all together!

Dream on folks......

Sue in AK

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> My brother in law went thru AA. He gained about 30 lb. afterward. He

said

> they told him that ex alcoholics tend to take up eating " sugar " because it

> actually simulates the same " feeling " as alcohol. P.

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