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6. One of the greatest health benefits of emotional intelligence is avoiding isolation, and isolation figures highly in addiction.

Consider yet another theory of addiction, this time called "excessive appetite." Dr. Jim Orford from the University of Birmingham proposes in "Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addiction," that behavior such as excessive gambling, sex and eating are normally distributed because most people will conform to social pressure. According to Orford's model, "the more excessive the behavior becomes, the greater the societal forces are that push the behavior back to the center, to the norm." (Isolation, of course, removes you from the 'pressure of the norm'.")

7. No one ever got addicted who never took the first puff, hit, snort, sip, bite or roll.

And even when we let the genie out of the bottle (taking "the first"), only a small percentage of people actually become addicts. Bertha Madras at Harvard estimates 5-10% of drug players. Cigarettes, however, claim 10-70% to habituation.

8. To me one of the most compelling arguments that an addiction is controllable (regardless of its cause - genetic or otherwise) and therefore would respond to emotional intelligence training is that researchers can pay addicts to quit.

You can't pay a blue-eyed person to change their genetically-determined eyes to brown. The addict can be motivated to quit with money for instance, and motivation is both a feelings word, and something that requires thinking, the neocortex.

9. Are smokers trying to relieve depression? It's more likely they're causing it.

While the relationship between smoking and depression still poses interesting questions (e.g., which causes which; whether a third variable influences or causes both) we know that learned optimism, flexibility that circumvents perfectionism, skills in emotional expression, empathy, and connectedness can all impact depression.

Pessimists are more prone to depression, and also more prone to isolation. Studies have shown, however, that teenagers who smoke are more likely to be depressed. "Cigarette use [by teenagers] is a powerful determinant of developing high depressive symptoms," says Elizabeth Goodman, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics in the division of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati.

10. Nobody's expressed intent is to become addicted.

Their intent is pleasure, or to relieve suffering, to have fun, to fit in, to quel anger, or any number of other things. It's like a misfired arrow of intent, the addict saying at some point, "I didn't intend to get addicted, I intended to have a good time/fun/pleasure/peace/comfort..." Intentionality is an emotional intelligence competency which permits you to accomplish what you set out to, not something else.

(c) 2003 Susan Dunn, All rights reserved.

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Susan Dunn, MA, Clinical Psychology, The EQ CoachT, Susan Dunn. Susan is the author of "How to Live Your Life with Emotional Intelligence."

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