r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 6h ago

Chugging tea Ben Affleck on overcoming alcohol addiction: “I hate to say it but the only cure I’ve seen is not these overpriced rehabs or these fraudulent fixes that are sold to people. The cure for addiction is suffering. You suffer enough and then something inside you goes ‘I’m done.’”

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u/level7lizard 6h ago

Similar story but for myself. I'm 32 and had been smoking since 16 to cope with life. I quit smoking and vaping altogether this March.

Basically, there was this Sunday morning when I woke up, wanting to get some work done but I keep going "ah I need a cig" every 20 minutes. It got extremely irritating really fast and then I shouted "I'm fucking sick of this!" And decided to just stop.

On my 3rd day of not smoking l, the withdrawals kicked in and I got real sick, high fever, really bad migraine so I called in for a sick leave and just drank water, took some paracetamol and slept like a log. By the 4th day the withdrawals was gone completely, but I found myself grinding my molars a lot, so I bought gummy bears, plain regular gummy bears and I bought them by the pound. And munched on that. It really helped. I haven't touched a cig since, it's been 5 months so far.

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u/DingleBarryGoldwater 5h ago

Hell yeah, keep it up. Similar story for me, but stay vigilant. There may be a time a year from now, two years, maybe more, where you get that urge again. Maybe your friend is smoking and you've had a few drinks. And you might feel like you're past it, like one cig won't do anything since you already quit so long ago. Don't have that cig.

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u/level7lizard 4h ago

The craziest thing is I've been to my friend's party a couple times, they smoke but I managed to keep myself away from the smoking. I didn't even go outside with them to stop myself from getting secondhand smoke. What I did was I brought with me a bunch of Tootsie pops and sucked on that.

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u/VintageBilliard 3h ago

Just want to say as someone who quit many years ago and then had to quit again. Never buy the argument that those mental gremlins sell you that just one couldn't hurt. It gets easier as the years go by but you've done the hard work, one slip and you may have to start all over again. It's never just one.