What effect did spending time with the lotus-eaters have on odysseus's men?

The lotus eaters gave his men some lotus flowers so they would eat it and the seeds to forget who they were and their only interest was to eat more

As time went on and they stayed with the lotus-eaters, they fed them lotus-flowers which manipulated Odysseus's men and they became prisoners unknowingly. It was as if they were under a trance. The only way they could leave is if they stopped eating the lotus-flowers but they became an addiction.