When I was little my mom was a health nut. All home grown foods and whatnot. We had a little black and white TV and I had seen the Lays commercials, "Betcha can't eat just one."
She started dating this guy and we kids were introduced to him at a Schlotzkys. My first time at one of those. I remember the larges looked HUGE to 4yr old me. They got some chips, too. And there it was, that bag from the commercials, oh it's yellow.
I took out a chip. Put it in my mouth. And never ate another. Cause fuck you. I can do whatever I want.
If you're serious about it, the first thing to do is change your rhetoric.
Don’t say "I need to quit drinking" or "I should quit smoking" or "I'd love to lose weight".
Instead say "I am quitting".
When you use words like "need to" or "should" or "ought to", you set your mind to think that the conditions required for you to quit aren't met yet, that there is some extra step for you to take before you can quit. When in actuality there isn't anything stopping you but yourself.
Giving up is hard sometimes, but it is a lot easier when you genuinely set your mind to it and to do so adopting the right rhetoric is a fundamental key for it.
Haven't had a drink in years, one of the factors is because I genuinely put my mindset in imperative mode rather than using conditional.
Yeah, that's gonna be a naw from me, dawg. I've done every drug under the sun and uppers were the ones that stuck for me. Like...I kinda had a bit of a problem. I've been clean for a while now and do not intend to ever return to it though. Mushrooms were pretty fun, though.