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  • Soda, one night driving home from a movie set I stopped and got two of the largest vats of Mountain Dew for the 90 minute drive. As I was getting into my truck I questioned my decision and dumped them both. I switched to La croix (and later other brands).

    Close to it with cigarettes. I took a week off from work and locked myself in the basement with a single pack of smokes (I was smoking 2-3 packs a day at that point). At the end of the week I had cigs left over and have never smoked since (20 years ago).

    In high school I opened my locker one day and I had more empty bottles of vodka than I did books. I had one last bender and quit. Very similar with recreational drugs.

  • Quit cigarettes cold turkey.

    Wellll, almost dying from a bleeding ulcer (partly caused by cigarettes), 2 week stay in a hospital, and 4 more weeks of recovery kinda helped.

  • Cigarettes when I got some long pain and it actually started to hurt when I breathed in the smoke. Stopped alcohol completely at the same time.

    I kept it up for almost a month.

  • Tobacco. Started by delaying the first smoke of the day as long ad I could. Eventually I got through a whole day.

  • Yep. Alcohol. It was the only way for me to quit. I had the shakes for a day, but that was about it.

    I have the temptation from time to time, but I am stronger than it.

  • Quit meth that way, fucking brutal. Worst experience of my life, and there's a fair few shitty times to compare it to.

    • What was it like

      • Physically painful, mentally crushing. I didn't speak to anyone for a week and a half, just couldn't bring myself to do it. Everything ached, my skin felt like it was on fire in random patches that kept moving around, and I was more depressed than I had ever been in my life to that point.

  • Videogames 10 years ago. I was spending time on videogames basically every day. I didn't see it as something harmful, but during one christmas break I dared myself not to play videogames during the 10 days school break. Never picked up gaming since then. I sold my PS4 six months later. A few years ago I built myself a gaming PC with the intention to use it for gaming but I've actually never bought or downloaded any game

    I still play local multiplayer games every once in a while with I'm over at some friends' place (eg. party games as Stickbold, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Fifa), or online tabletop games such as hangman, gartic phone, geoguesser or boardgamesarena.com

  • Went cold turkey for smoking about 15 years ago. I still get a crazy urge to smoke if i walk past a smoking pad or a designated smoking area. It only lasts for about 10 seconds but its not enough for me to take it back up.

  • Snoozing my alarm clock. Went cold turkey about 10 years ago, 0 tolerance. Now my alarm goes off, I turn my lamp on immediately at full brightness, and get up and out of bed within seconds. Used to be really challenging, but now I do it without thinking.

  • Weed Like 45 days ago, I still see myself going back to it but not for a while, and ideally not as a habit. Everything else sorta fades in and out pretty easily so far.

  • caffeine. I was so wired from drinking like 5 redbulls every day that I wasn't sleeping anymore, maybe a few hours here and there. I was starting to go insane. so I remember at one point on my work lunch break, February 27th 2024, I told myself I won't ever drink these again unless it's a situation where I need to be awake (like if I'm on an overnight layover with an early flight for example, which is rare enough). I sleep until about noon now on my days off, it's fucking awesome.

    • How was your experience? When I quit caffeine cold turkey, I was miserable. Crazy ass dreams. Headache that wouldn't go away. Two weeks of just total shitty symptoms. Month before I felt totally ok.

      Now I'm caffeine free, but holy fuck, that was tough.

      • at first for about a week I had a horrible headache. it didn't feel like a normal headache either, it felt like a mix between the sinus pressure type of headache and a fever headache. I also was sleeping 3 times as much during this phase, like I'm talking sleep before work, get home the next day and sleep 5 more hours. wake up eat dinner sleep again. but eventually I got passed it after that week or so. felt better ever since. saves a lot of money too.

  • Quit caffeine that way. Brutal. Felt like shit for a good solid two weeks. Didn't feel normal for another month.

    But I did it and now I'm caffeine-free. :)

    • You must've been drinking a lot

      • Well from the literature I read, it affects people differently. I drank a lot, but probably not as much as coffee drinkers.

        My caffeine was mainly Mountain Dew. Couple of 20 oz bottles a day, every day for several years. Not much compared to most gamers and shit.

        But for me, it was very very painful and uncomfortable to quit.

        I also know someone who drank coffee every day all day, way more caffeine than I did, and she quit cold turkey. One day headache, then she was good.

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