Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ

Being someone who was sober for most of my adult life (13 years) and then drank for 8 and now sober again almost 3, I know what you're going through. It's a circle that's hard to break. I did the Trifecta and knew if I were going to stop smoking you need to also stop drinking and vice versa.

Anyway, I stopped drinking, smoking, and lost 70lbs. I could not do them all at once, but did start with no drinking, then weight loss, and finally no smoking being the hardest. In short, I was fresh out of vices and bored as all fuck, because of two reasons.

All the years of drinking, smoking, and eating whatever I constantly conditioned myself into a reward system with substances. Once they are gone you're hard pressed to find simple joys in life and you'll go into a shutdown mode. Everyone goes through it and in the end you'll develop other things that satisfies you.

For me I soon notice a lot of extra money, projects getting done better, personal pride, and sticking to this program caused free time and money to do the things I want like travel. In short, the last 3 years I've learned more about marketing then in the first 10 and things I thought were impossible in the past are dead simple.

So it's a long slow haul (for me) but now the joys I get out of life are things that secure a comfortable future, compared to six years ago waking up being $300k in the hole and wondering how things were going to be paid. Currently, my biggest problem is why my new dry flies I tied are sinking and where the hell are my sturgeon rods.

So stick with it because it always gets better in the end.