Behaviors or substances that lead to quick, repeated dopamine spikes create cravings and diminish satisfaction over time.

“for instance you want to avoid any kind of behaviors or substances that are going to Peak your Baseline level of dopamine very high or very sharply or if you do engage in those types of behaviors whatever they may be that you are well aware that your Baseline level of dopamine will drop far below what it was after that Peak has fallen you will be essentially in the quote unquote trough”

“When dopamine arrives quickly without effort such as with amphetamine crack cocain or pornography mhm the whole reinforcement Loop becomes wired to these short time scales you want something you want it now and you get it but over time you get less and less of the dopamine Peak and you get more of the dopamine trough that occurs you drop below Baseline afterwards”

“whether or not it's a drug like methamphetamine cocaine crack cocaine in particular or some other drug that hits the system fast and creates a big big inflection in dopamine that the more rapid the rise in dopamine the bigger the crash in dopamine afterwards and the more miserable you feel afterwards and the more repeat of the behavior that initiated the peak will occur AKA addiction okay or at least extreme habit formation depending how one defines those”

“I just know that any behavior or substance that leads to quick repeated inflections in dopamine is going to create a groove in the nervous system where you're going to crave that thing and it's going to give you a lower and lower sense of satisfaction over time.”