Coffee named Britain’s Number One stimulant

New research out today from Ciao shows that coffee is Europe’s number one addiction – with 47% of respondents saying that they could not live without it!
For Brits the coffee addiction overtakes even our national life blood – tea (28%) and also alcohol (20%). Amazingly not a single Brit selected smoking as their biggest addiction – showing that our caffeine hit is now more important than its nicotine cousin.
We can’t rest on our laurels too much though: Britain is apparently far more attached to the booze (20% named it as their biggest addiction) than our European cousins. In Spain only 4% named alcohol as the thing they couldn’t do without, compared to 4% in Spain, 2% in the Netherlands and a tiny 1% in both France and Italy!
Things are at least looking up for our figures. None of the British respondents named overeating as their worst addiction, compared to 20% of the Spanish, 16% of Swedes, 24% of Italians, 15% of the French and 10% of people in the Netherlands.
Do you agree with the results? What is your biggest addiction? Please get in touch and share your comments here. Alternatively, if you’re looking to give up one of your addictions have a look on ciao.co.uk where there are lots of community discussions offering tips on how to help.