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what addiction have you kicked? no matter how insignificant you feel it was (lemm.ee)

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[–] sturlabragason 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Haven’t kicked them. Stopped using nicotine and alcohol but man is the addiction still there. 🥲

[–] franzfurdinand 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey, stay strong. Shit gets easier, I promise. Six years sober, two years without nicotine here. I did it, and you can too.

[–] sturlabragason 4 points 3 months ago

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-p%C3%A5-ryggen-bastard-my-back.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.