Sentences with phrase «physical addiction»

"Physical addiction" refers to a situation when a person's body becomes dependent on a substance or activity. They need it to function normally and may experience withdrawal symptoms if they try to quit or reduce their use. Full definition
Aside from the legitimate physical addiction to sugar, part of these cravings simply come from a desire for some type of distraction.
As far as stevia being a no - no, according to the forum discussion the 30 - day program is not only about ridding our body of physical addictions to sugar and other things, but also about ridding our cravings and psychological addictions to desserts and using food as a reward.
Opiate abuse creates a serious physical addiction which, when stopped abruptly, can lead to abdominal pains, runny nose, nausea, insomnia, agitation, and many flu - like symptoms.
Many of the medications proscribed for insomnia have many side effects including physical addiction.
Doctors love AA because it replaces a physical addiction with a mental one they can't see the negative effects of.
In 1988, however, the U.S. Surgeon General confirmed that nicotine causes a physical addiction similar to and as powerful as those caused by cocaine or heroin.
Is sin not a moral failure but the victory of a physical addiction?
You obviously have no understanding that alcoholism is also a physical addiction as well as a psychological addiction.
Um... alcohol addiction IS a physical addiction.
It can truthfully be said, then, that physical addiction is surprisingly incidental to the real nature of addiction» (pp. 75 - 76).
What a bunch of BS, physical addictions are verifiable by science.
While people definitely do not develop a physical addiction, they do become habituated to chiles because of their flavor, their stimulating properties, and their healthfulness.
So there is a physical addiction, but of such trivial levels as to be a non issue.
«One of the things that makes groups successful is helping people understand that smoking is more than a physical addiction.
The truth is, you can not rush the healing of the emotional attachment or the physical addiction.
With drugs or drinking, the problems would be easier to digest, as there is usually a physical addiction involved, but Crane's sex addiction was completely in the mind, and when most people would have stopped, he only stepped up his activities until it was too late.
Not only might the practice of self - harm be a physical addiction to the chemical endorphins, but it may also be a psychological addiction to harming as a way to have control over emotions in an environment where much may seem out of the victim's control.
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