sonidero wrote:There is a lot of True Life in this here thread, and it's all us old guys... I struggled all year to completely stop drinkin and just keep falling into habits... Sometimes I'd go into the corner store and be back at home icing down a 6 pack and not even realize I'd bought it... I think it helps to have people around that are into other things so you can just get on with it but even that's not always good cause I usually never drank with them anyway... Ryan's got it right that Partying stopped in the teenage years and now it's just a problem... 20 years of habits are hard to break...for everyone...
That's pretty much it. People mistakenly think that quitting is as easy as just not doing it. But there's thousands of little habits and triggers that go into every addiction that needs to be snuffed out. Just because you finally broke yourself of the after dinner cigarette addiction doesn't mean you won't break down from the mid morning break one.
I had one friend who started smoking in high school. He came down here and smoked another 10 years. He FINALLY, after lots of attempts, quit smoking. And after five years of that, had 0 cravings.........until he went to stay with his parents for a week. Once he got back into his old stomping grounds, his body reacted like he never left....and like he never quit. All the cravings he had from high school years were there and he relapsed. Had to quit all over again when he came back. Totally crazy how the brain works.
