Fast food. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell probably six times a week. I don't know how I maintain my 175 pounds at 5'11". It's a fucking miracle. Also cigarettes, but I'm going to make an attempt at stopping tomorrow.
Fast Food - I eat some form of fast food around 6-10 times per week (so ~once a day). Luckily, I'm just over 6' and my body likes being thin so I maintain a weight of about 170 without much effort. I also like fast food way more than other sweets. I was talking to someone about this addiction recently and realized if someone put a chocolate cake and a Big Mac in front of me and I had to pick one, I'd take the Big Mac in a heartbeat. Sweets do not sway me at all, but I will go to great lengths to get my fast food fix. Music - My iTunes collection is 17.8 days worth of music (6563 songs). Granted, often I will download an album and keep songs I don't like for completeness' sake, but generally I don't download full albums unless I know I like most of it. Lately I've been too busy to find new music (and my favorite new music website has become a total clusterfuck) so I haven't be acquiring like I used to. Video Games - Some days I will play no Xbox, other days I will play Call of Duty for 7 hours straight. It all depends on what I'm feeling like and whether I have a busy schedule. That having been said, I really don't consider myself as having an addictive personality. When I was younger and actually bothered to give up things for Lent, I didn't have much of a problem refraining from things like fast food or pop. In my case, it really is the case that I can quit anytime I want, I just don't want to.
4 years and counting... Started in high school as a wrestler to keep me awake and lose a few tenths of a pound on the way to meets... Now it's a tin per day. That's gonna have to end soon...
Peanut butter. I'm like Brad Pitt in that 19 hour Joe Black chunk of shit. ...and TUNES. If I get a moment at home alone, the vinyl goes on and the neighbour get pissed.
Recently its been collecting vintage and rare books/publications of a particular genre/era. I cannot stop. The shitty economy has helped to build my collection immensely. Everyone is selling shit for cheap nowadays. I go to ebay, abes books, and various other sites to scan for books/rags/chapbooks/novels 4 to 5 times a day. My collection is centered around the following writers: Charles Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson, William S Burroughs, Steve Richmond, John and Dan Fante, Douglas Blazek, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, AD Winans, etc. etc. I get a cheap rush when I find something cheaper on one site than the other --then I HAVE to buy it. Then I wait anxiously for it to arrive --and when it does, I get just short of high when I open it and smell the 'grandma's closet musty goodness'. Oh, and: -reddit.com -Call of Duty MW2 -Nicorette Gum (wound up traded smoking for Nicorette in my effort to quit smoking --whatever)
I'm addicted to gambling, specifically Casino Odds betting on the NHL. The odds on the games are fantastic, and you can bet on 2 games which is awesome. The down side is I play $50 to make the bets worth while to come through ($50 usually pays out $250 for locks and between $5-600 for underdogs), so when it hits its awesome and when not, especially when you work in an industry that is in its down time right now, it really hurts. The worst part of this though is that I have to do this at the casino, where I always try and win my money back on roulette. Inside hitting at 35-1 on a $10 table? Sign me the fuck up. Boy does that have some bad ramifications. Worse ever was I went and played Sic Bo one night, and ended up blowing $800 because I was on tilt. I kept pulling money out to make up for the money I lost. I went home feeling very ashamed and disappointed in myself, but it didn't stop me from going. Thankfully, because I won $2500 on the same game 5 months later.
4 years is a rookie. Try 20 years and counting. I've almost given up ever quitting, damn don't I love Copenhagen snuff, the sweet nectar of the gods
In no particular order: 1) My blackberry. I don't have a ton of apps, but I would say I'll check my facebook and twitter accounts every ten to fifteen minutes on average. It's even worse if I'm watching Canuck's hockey. I'll share a tweet or two, and I'll constantly be checking facebook and twitter for more insight and commentary. It drives the girlfriend and my pals nuts when I'm clicking away during a game. Brick-Breaker is also a guilty pleasure of mine. 2) Sports. The sportscaster is addicted to sports? Who knew! But seriously, I'm always reading news articles from around the sporting world. I'm always efforting new guests for my talk-show, and I'd say that I check TSN's website no less than 15 times a day. My profession is an outlet for my addiction. 3) Coffee. Usually I'm okay with just one a day, but a morning without at least one Tim Horton's large regular coffee is a total anomaly for me.
My fiancee and I have a mutual addiction to South Park. We have downloaded every single season/episode onto iTunes/appleTV, and probably watch 5-6 episodes per night when we're going to bed. There have been Saturdays where we do nothing but watch South Park, eat Chinese food, and bump privates. We could probably survive without the sex, but the South Park - not so much. A more recent addiction of mine is Canada Dry Sparkling Green Tea Ginger Ale. I fucking loathe green tea, but for some reason, this stuff is amazing. I've probably been drinking 4-5 of these per day for the past 6 months. Even the diet tastes pretty good.