Does anyone worry that...

That has never occured to me but after picking for so long I sometimes wish I had a different type of problem instead of skin picking. I don't really want another problem to replace my picking but sometimes it crosses my mind when I see people who look perfect and they either smoke or drink alcohol and seem perfectly happy and content with those addictions. I just work every day to cut out every addictive habit out of my life, I haven't drank alcohol in a few years, I never really smoked, quit eating junk food and candy, haven't had soda in forever. I think quitting all these things are important to quitting my skin picking because they're all repetive things with all the addictive sugar and salt added to them. I think quitting these things will also prevent me to developing a new problem after I get over picking because I won't be dependent on any addictive fix.

Yes, I worry about this ever since my therapist suggest that could happen. I don't feel like I would personally become a substance abuser, but it's likely that i'd manifest it into pulling out my hair or something instead.