History Main / AddictionDisplacement

* On ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': Jackie uses her obsession with solving the murder to help stay sober

* One [[AnvilOfTheStory heavy-handed]] episode of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' has Cruella de Vil attempt to quit smoking, and move in with Anita until she can. When she finally kicks the habit, she takes up gum chewing, and the episode ends with Cruella moving back in with Anita until she can quit chewing gum.

** There's a new kind of Monster Energy drink called "Rehab". No prizes for guessing the target market for that.

** Humorist David Sedaris experienced this firsthand. As a boy, he had many obsessive-compulsive tics. During college, he became a smoker, and smoking eventually came to [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop replace his tics]].

** Fans of ''The X-Files'' have speculated that Mulder's habit of eating sunflower seeds came from quitting smoking.

* One {{Anvilicious}} episode of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' has Cruella de Vil attempt to quit smoking, and move in with Anita until she can. When she finally kicks the habit, she takes up gum chewing, and the episode ends with Cruella moving back in with Anita until she can quit chewing gum.

*** For Maladict from ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', it's coffee. Things get tense after a thief hits the soldiers' camp, leaving Maladict so out of sorts that the vampire begins suffering [[FlashSideways "flash-sides"]] and starts muttering about "Charlie" and the "LZ."
*** For Otto from ''Discworld/TheTruth'', it's ''photography'' (which, given vampiric photosensitivity, has caused many an embarrassing situation).

* Discussed in ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Sam (a former alcoholic) notes he's seen other addicts recover this way, and seems to constantly be drinking coffee or bottled water in most of his scenes.

In situations PlayedForLaughs, it's not unusual for the substitution to 1) [[FromBadToWorse switch a mild drug for a worse drug]] or 2) [[GRatedDrug cause the same kind of reactions even if it's supposed to be "healthier"]].

* One {{Anvilicious}} episode of the ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' animated series has Cruella de Vil attempt to quit smoking, and move in with Anita until she can. When she finally kicks the habit, she takes up gum chewing, and the episode ends with Cruella moving back in with Anita until she can quit chewing gum.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Dale tries to quit smoking and replaces that habit with chewing tobacco. He later quits chewing tobacco and decides to simply inhale the tobacco leaves' aroma instead. Finally, he gives up and goes back to smoking.
** More specifically (and hilariously), he loads his chewing tobacco into a paper tube and inhales the aroma, then someone lights it and he declares it a "marvelous new invention."

** [[RedHotChiliPeppers Anthony Kiedis]] became known as the "world's healthiest rock star" because he replaced his massive drug and alcohol addiction with fitness. This includes plenty of jogging, surfing, and swimming (in chlorine-free pools or the ocean), but also a mostly vegetarian diet, Kabbalah, acupuncture, and ozone injections.

* Fans of ''Series/TheXFiles'' have speculated that Mulder's habit of eating sunflower seeds came from quitting smoking.

* ComicBook/LuckyLuke, famously, caused by ExecutiveMeddling from the MoralGuardians. Lucky Luke was created as a heavy smoker in a time where it wasn't controversial, and the way his mouth is classically drawn is designed to fit him having a cigarette in it at all times. When the MoralGuardians complained and had the authors scrap the cigarette, they had him much a straw so as not to have to change his trademark mouth shape. Much later, they finally acknowledged the change in a story where someone offers Luke a cigarette, and he says that he has quit it and munches the straw as a way to deal with it.

* Mentioned in ''Literature/UglyMemories'' by Creator/MLLanzillotta. Junkies apparently crave sweets after detoxing. Interestingly, the author once wrote an article about opioid addicts eating candy to "take the edge off" between fixes [[https://www.mandatory.com/fun/1467197-strange-relationship-between-drug-addictions-sugar]].

** The Black Ribboner [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], who've [[VegetarianVampire sworn to abstain from drinking human blood]], all do this. It's implied that they're biologically required to be addicted to ''something''.

* In ''Manga/BokuDakeGaInaiMachi'', Gaku Yashiro gained a sugar addiction after he stopped smoking and fills his glove compartment with candy. [[spoiler:He also uses the candy to drug and murder children.]]