Gary, I have noted that addictions and dependence on drugs (including alcohol and nicotine) seem to diminish a lot with AM because it apparently deals with some of the root causes of using them. I never had a problem with using alcohol... I used it as a social lubricant on occasion, or I would drink because everyone else was drinking. Never aiming to get drunk. I did find that once I had my two beers I would be very easy for people to talk into a third and fourth, and then I couldn't drive... which frustrated me, because I hate wasting time...
After running AM5, I just stopped drinking altogether. No more need to. In the year and a half since then I have had a sip of champagne at my cousins wedding during a toast - specifically at his request, and a few sips of a very high end Irish whiskey because my friend wanted me to experience the flavor. Nice taste, very smooth, nice to smell, but no need to drink even 1/8th of the one shot he bought me. No need, no desire, even when I am the only one in a crowd not drinking. I'm plenty strong enough and confident enough not to drink.
Perhaps smoking was like that for you. In any case, congratulations on putting that down. It's a much better life without it.
After running AM5, I just stopped drinking altogether. No more need to. In the year and a half since then I have had a sip of champagne at my cousins wedding during a toast - specifically at his request, and a few sips of a very high end Irish whiskey because my friend wanted me to experience the flavor. Nice taste, very smooth, nice to smell, but no need to drink even 1/8th of the one shot he bought me. No need, no desire, even when I am the only one in a crowd not drinking. I'm plenty strong enough and confident enough not to drink.
Perhaps smoking was like that for you. In any case, congratulations on putting that down. It's a much better life without it.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
