When I was in high school, I had tried sniffing nail polish once and admit that I did get a little of a high from it but when I had gotten myself a pet, I was able to stop in fear that he would be affected by the smell of it.  He lived for about two years but died near the end of senior year.  I didn't start up again until I had started college and also the stress that came with it.  I continued off and on throughout but I wondered to myself once if I was addicted to this little habit.  For the past year, I have been keeping track personally to see for myself, it seems that I can never go longer than three months and, well, the stress seems to get me to where I pick up the old container and take those few minutes to de-stress myself with it again.  I never used to do this to relieve stress, in the past I used to do other things to calm myself like read, play video games, even draw but as I got older, doing those things just didn't do it for me anymore.  I'm not the type of person who gets these sudden urges to do this, it just seems that if I become stressed that reaching for it is so easy but I know deep down that sniffing won't make the stress go away, it'll just push it aside for the while until the feeling of getting high is gone...so what I'm wondering is, since I still go back to it, am I addicted?

Hey....it's me again, well....I'm trying to do better but it seems that maybe I'm not doing as well as I have hoped.  I have looked into the options that you have talked about but I'm afraid that right now due to work and school, they are kind of out of my reach...I decided to tell one friend about my problem but it seems that my problem has taken it's toll on both me and him...you see, my friend and I have disagreements in relation to other things and sometimes he gets me so mad that I've kind of "slipped" if we want to put it that way...I unfortunately took two hits, each a week apart...I was so ashamed of it that I was afraid to come back here but now seeing how my emotions and this problem is hurting him as well as me...I decided to come back here to let you guys know how I'm doing.  If there is at least one little plus out of this, I am trying to find something else to do in order to help with the stress, somebody once told me that exercise or even other fun activities are actually good relievers of stress...I'm willing to try whatever works and whatever it takes to see if I can get rid of this bad habit once and for all, wish me luck!  Along with that, I will try my hardest to become more active on here, maybe by talking to others here, it may also help me.