Addictive - & not in a good way! I've always had chapped lips year-round & for years I thought this was the only product that worked for me because when I would try other brands of lip balm sticks, none of them soothed my lips like Lypsyl. However, I noticed that my lips were actually just so addicted to this particular product that not only would they not accept other chapped lip sticks, but I had to apply Lypsyl every hour! When you apply it, Lypsyl makes your lips feel good at first, but then it must actually dry them out quickly too, because I was going through those sticks like crazy & my lips would hurt so bad if I went more than 2 hours without. (Don't let the cheap price deceive you as you'll end up using it 3 times faster anyway, so in the long run it will cost you more.) Since then I used vitamin E oil as recommended by a pharmacist, which helped in the transition process, & now I use Vaseline lip therapy just a few times a day & it actually works the way it's supposed to.