Is cubing (already) your addiction?

[szalejot]

Smoking is a habit.

Usually it is addiction.
Of course it can be habit, but in most cases isn't. This is why it is so hard to give smoking up. When you give nicotine to the brain on regular basis you become addicted.

 

[ultimatecuber]

cubing in the head. u got that right!!!

 

[sneaklyfox]

an addiction is something that you would often go out of your way to do. cubing definitely does alienate many of us from friends and family to some degree. what you described is a dependant addiction.

Addiction implies dependence. A lot of people travel hours and hours just to go to a competition. I'd call that going out of your way. If that's your definition of addiction then it's an addiction.

addiction. n. the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming
addiction. n. the condition of being abnormally dependent on some habit, esp compulsive dependency on narcotic drugs

I guess it depends how you define "abnormal" and what degree of "enslavement" counts.

 

[applemobile]

A lot of people travel hours and hours just to go to a competition.

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Even more people travel thousands of miles to watch men kicking a ball about, yet they don't get classed as addicted to football/soccer/spots ball. It just defines a hobbie.


EDIT: Check dat post count

 

[CubezUBR]

I quit xbox, minecraft and coding/hacking for cubing time. i take a 50mm zhanchi to school and whenever i hear the word cube or speed or solve or sticker or edge or corner or core etc i look up and think about cubes.

 

[Schmidt]

I would cube more if I wasn't so addicted to this site. The countless times I have refreshed to see <5 new posts.

 

[sneaklyfox]

I would cube more if I wasn't so addicted to this site. The countless times I have refreshed to see <5 new posts.

This is me too.

 

[Qthulu]

New addition to my statements: I wanted to log in into my computer and typed "Speedsolving" as my username :fp

 

[FluffyDucky]

I cube when I don't have my computer around me. On my lunch break, waiting for the bus, on the bus.....but I wouldn't say I am addicted.

 

[Ninja Storm]

I cube a lot. However, I do not believe I'm "addicted" simply because not cubing for a few days isn't some horror to me(although it has been in the past). With that said, I've cubed for every day for the past two years.

 

[ultimate enemy]

In the shower I visualize a cube in my head and solve f2l, usually not LL.