I used to have problems with drinking and drugs in the past that I managed to overcome. I spent nearly a year sober before I started drinking again but I somehow was able to manage it all, like a ‘normal person’ would. Last year I did a dry January and this year I’m doing it as well. Spent my night drinking NA beers today and had a great time. They make some great NA beers these days and I honestly don’t see the point of drinking anymore.
This is a wonderful choice, and I wish you luck with your sobriety! You are losing nothing, while taking back years of your life, reducing your risk to all cancers by an insane margin, and saving a whole lot of money with how insanely expensive alcohol is.
If it might be any help, I would recommend buying a small stock of your favorite soda in their original forms (these can be easily found in most grocers, and they will be in glass bottles with Spanish on them as they are made in Latin America). Those bottles use the original formulas with five ingredients max depending on what soda it is (Usually Carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel for colour, phosphoric acid, caffeine), no nasty chemicals/corn syrup, and absurd amounts of sugar, while tasting leagues better then the American versions. Whenever I’ve ever felt like drinking, I’ll pop out an cold latin Fanta, and I almost always lose all desire to drink as the taste and carbonation hit the spot perfectly.
Yeah we have several Latin and Asian stores around here. They have all kinds of cool, unique stuff that often times tastes 100x better. I’ll see if I can find some nice soda’s. Also, we even have a soda brewery (?) in town. Perks of living in a big city 🤷