Table 1.
Quantitative analysis. Substance and non-substance addiction patterns.
| Substance addictions/craving for commonly used drugs (legal and not legal) | ||||||
| Alcohol, alcoholism | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| alcohol | 123 | 60 | 31 | 2 | 169 | 385 |
| alcoholism | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| alcoholic | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 35 |
| 130 (29.75%) | 63 (14.42%) | 31 (7.09%) | 2 (0.46%) | 211 (48.28%) | 437 | |
| Other drinking habits: coffee drinks | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| caffeine | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 33 |
| coffee | 38 | 26 | 72 | 0 | 47 | 183 |
| 48 (22.22%) | 29 (13.43%) | 76 (35.19%) | 0 (0.00%) | 63 (29.17%) | 216 | |
| Tobacco | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| nicotine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| cigarette | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 |
| 3 (23.08%) | 1 (7.69%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 9 (69.23%) | 13 | |
| Cannabis-derived products (inhaled and edibles) | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| cannabis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| weed | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 17 |
| edibles | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 45 |
| munchies | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 19 |
| 12 (13.33%) | 13 (14.44%) | 18 (20.00%) | 9 (10.00%) | 38 (42.22%) | 90 | |
| Vaping and smoking/inhaling habits (excluding psychostimulants such as cocaine and amphetamines): tobacco and cannabis-derived products | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| vaping | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| smoke | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 22 | 40 |
| smoking | 18 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 44 | 70 |
| 22 (18.97%) | 7 (6.03%) | 18 (15.52%) | 1 (0.86%) | 68 (58.62%) | 116 | |
| Sex drive and libido | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| sex | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 27 | 33 |
| libido | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 0 (0.00%) | 2 (5.41%) | 0 (0.00%) | 6 (16.22%) | 29 (78.38%) | 37 | |
| Behavioral addictions (excluding food) | ||||||
| Shopping | ||||||
| Keywords | stopped | reduced | same | increased | other topics * | total |
| compulsive shopping | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| shopping | 19 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 45 | 86 |
| 21 (23.60%) | 6 (6.74%) | 14 (15.73%) | 2 (2.25%) | 46 (51.69%) | 89 | |
*: here, posts with the selected keywords but falling outside a clear description of how consumption changed (e.g., trivial comments, generic questions, searching for reassurances, links, etc.) were included. A more conservative approach was adopted, and “stopped/reduced/same/increased” was coded only if clearly stated.