As per the title, are there any slangy equivalents? I think both words were originally related to drugs (or sex I guess), so "fiend" would be an obsessive drug addict, and "fiending" would mean to crave drugs obsessively. And this usage probably came from fiend's original definition of "demon."
But I think they're often applied without these connotations so you could be a music fiend, or someone very obsessed with music. Or you could be fiending, or obsessively craving, food. So, I'm asking moreso in this context.