History Main / AddictionDisplacement

* After giving up Alcohol and Cocaine,Trent Reznor went from rail-thin to ultra buff

* ''{{Twin Peaks}}'' - Ben Horne gives up smoking and uses carrots in a place of cigars.

* Heroin was originally marketed as a means to treat morphine addictions. [[GoneHorriblyWrong The body simply metabolises heroin into morphine.]] Since heroin gets faster into the brain than morphine and is converted right there, the high is more intense.

* Heroin was originally marketed as a means to treat morphine addictions. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Turns out the body simply converts heroin into a faster acting and more dangerous form of morphine.]]

* In an [[TheEighties eighties]] ''[[ArchieComics Archie]]'' [[VerySpecialEpisode story]] on the dangers of smoking, three teenage smokers unintentionally create a false fire alarm by chain-smoking in the boys' washroom at school. At the end, they apologize to the principal, Mr. Weatherbee, and inform him that from now on, whenever they have nicotine cravings, they'll chew gum instead.

** In ''Iron Man Rapture'', before the mini-series, Tony had quit drinking. After his heart attack, he built himself a new heart and had it implanted. [[spoiler: He became addicted to cyber enhancements.]]

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* In {{Multiplex}}, Jason developed a really bad case of addiction to caffeine. [[http://www.multiplexcomic.com/strip/440 A co-worker of his told him about how she was addicted to coffee and it got so bad that she had quit the movie theater and worked as a coffee server. She managed to quit by smoking weed.]]
* DominicDeegan had been 'cured' of his smoking problem by his brother's white magic. He then became addicted to Marple Candy.

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* [[IronMan Tony Stark]] was an alcoholic. After he quit, he had to be careful of displacement addiction. He became a workaholic.
** In ''Iron Man Rapture'', before the mini-series, Tony had quit drinking. After his heart attack, he built himself a new heart and had it implanted. [[spoiler: He became addicted to cyber enhancements.]]

** The next step is replacing the nicotine gum with chewing gum of a specific flavour.

*** Even though that's a pretty crappy cop-out. Non-believer Marc Almond of Soft Cell explained how he dealt with the 12-step program inherent in NA after he decided to stop his drug addiction as such: He could either be angry at the insinuations of having to use a "higher power" to guide him through the 12 steps and quit the group (and thus slide back into addiction) or he could view "GOD" as an acronym, which he did. He saw "GOD" as standing for "Good Orderly Direction" and that helped him get through the 12 steps.

-->-- '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGJpISVERg Steve Hughes]]'''

* Saito Hajime was [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historically]] a heavy drinker, and the version of him who shows up in ''RuroniKenshin'' is a chain smoker instead, explaining that if he drinks, he becomes AxCrazy.

* According to ''HarryPotter'' creator JKRowling's site, while writing books around the middle of the series, she quit smoking and started chewing nicotine gum instead. Because it was such a stressful period of her life, she actually then started smoking again in addition to chewing the nicotine gum! Eventually she managed to kick the habit with a new displacement activity which proved highly effective: playing Minesweeper.

* In season 1 of ''{{Leverage}}'', Nate is TheAlcoholic. So far in season 2, he seems to be drinking a truly massive amount of coffee. What's more, the other characters fear he is pulling riskier and riskier cons in order to substitute for alcohol, and worry that if they fail one, he could fall off the wagon again. Ironically, [[spoiler:he starts drinking again to help sell a short con, but once he's started he can't stop.]]

* According to HarryPotter creator J K Rowling's site, while writing books around the middle of the series, she quit smoking and started chewing Nicotene gum instead. Because it was such a stressful period of her life, she actually then started smoking again in addition to chewing the Nicotene gum! Eventually she managed to kick the habit with a new displacement activity which proved highly effective- playing Minesweeper.

*** The first-seen and apparently founding member Lady Margolotta has a more direct displacement, realizing that what vampires really wanted by drinking blood was power. She turned her attentions to politics.

* There's a fairly common phrase that states, "Nature abhors a vacuum." It's become unofficially recommended for people trying to kick an addiction to replace it with a "healthy" addiction, such as exercise, learning some type of art form (art, music) or developing a craft (knitting).

* It has been speculated that [[TheXFiles Mulder's]] habit of eating sunflower seeds came from quitting smoking.