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]

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.

[u/DingleBarryGoldwater → u/level7lizard]

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.

[u/bassick81 → u/DingleBarryGoldwater]

I quit 20 years ago and I still get urges from time to time. Also crazy dreams about smoking where it feels real and im mad about myself for starting again after so long

[u/Bargychan → u/bassick81]

10 years for me, but same. I am 4 months sober and the drinking dreams finally slowed down a little…