Maybe a compulsion rather than an addiction
I can't stop cracking my knuckles. I've been doing it since I was about 10 years old and I'm now in my mid 40s. It annoys other people and it annoys me and I know it can't be doing me any good but I just can't help it. When it enters my head to do it I've simply got to or it drives me mental thinking about it until I eventually succumb. I wish I could stop.
( Ramsay Tupper, Sat 20 Dec 2008, 23:33, 6 replies)

reading this
made me crack my knuckles
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 0:40, closed)

I do my knuckles, toes, back, knees.....
I have been doing them all since I was 10.

I used to really worry, but I did my back in and had to go to a chiropractor and I asked him whether I'd get arthritis and he told me it's an old wives tale.

No evidence exists that cracking knuckles causes any damage whatsoever!

Crack away FTW!
(Abe Froman To smell me you wouldn't think i was middle class, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 0:53, closed)

that's good to hear
because I crack most joints in my body, and if I don't they get stiff after a while.

particularly my guitar playing fingers
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 10:33, closed)

^ This
word for word, was going to be my post.
(Mr. In-Between has regretted posting this ever since, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 11:20, closed)

WOO!
*cracks the living shit out of his knuckles*
(Cockney_Jesus is targetting your mum in V.A.T.S!, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 19:13, closed)

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Why don't you go for a little distraction theory to stop you from doing it. Every time you want to crack your knuckles, go and have a wank. It'll take your mind off your knuckles.
(beer, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 14:57, closed)