Haven’t kicked them. Stopped using nicotine and alcohol but man is the addiction still there. 🥲
Hey, stay strong. Shit gets easier, I promise. Six years sober, two years without nicotine here. I did it, and you can too.
Likewise! It’s been 8 years without nicotine and 2 years sober here.
Here’s a good one about the monkey on your back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUvzx73-cCY&pp=ygUSc3R5Z2dlbiBww6UgcnlnZ2Vu
But you gotts understand norwegian: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/styggen-på-ryggen-bastard-my-back.html
Alcohol addiction is a bitch, but nicotine is easy. I can recommend Alan Carr. Not to follow the programm religiously, but the general idea of it was very helpful to me. You just need to find your internal motivation, convince yourself that you need to stop. Whatever reason works for you. Maybe it’s your health, your kids, the money or just because it’s not cool anymore. For me it was the money, but money wasn’t actually a problem. However, it did work to convince myself that I needed to stop. Haven’t smoked in 4 years and it still brightens my day every day.
- Quit nicotine several years ago and never went back (shisha, cigarettes and cigars).
- Quit porn because it had become a bad coping mechanism (still struggling with it a bit tho).
- Slowly trying to quit my bad eating habit (I see them as addictions). I don’t gain weigh, so bad eating habits happens.
- Slowly trying to quit my soda addiction.
Have you tried seltzer at all? Throw some fresh citrus in and it’s really good. Might even scratch the same soda itch.
I googled and checked seltzers, but unfortunately, I can’t try them because they contain alcohol (unless I found the wrong ones?)
Smoking and drinking. Drinking was hard
Zoloft and caffeine. Both are very hard, in different ways.
When I was three years old I was complaining to my parents about how much my thumb hurt in the winter. They told me it was because I sucked on it and so it became chapped. So I just stopped. Apparently never sucked my thumb again.
I wish I had the willpower now that I did when I was three.
