Brené Brown
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But I did have the physical addiction to nicotine.
And that was brutal.
I mean, the only reason I don't smoke today is I don't want to quit again.
And I don't want to die.
Other than that, I miss it every single day.
Every single day.
30 years later?
Every day.
30 years later.
And there are some things in my life that I do not do now.
because I can't have a cigarette.
I don't really sit in my backyard because what's the point if I'm not gonna smoke?
I would never have a non-alcoholic beer because what's the point if I can't have a cigarette?
And if a really good song comes on like Boston or ACDC, I'm gonna crack the window in my car and hold my pen like I'm smoking a cigarette and driving, like for sure.
It was so habitual for me that...
I knew the difference.
And so for folks who have to go into a physical, you know, the physical detox is, sometimes that requires a rock bottom because I don't know that you knowingly, even with a fresh start date, opt in for that, the brutality of that physical experience.
That is rough.
Does that make sense?
One thing I was thinking about that I wanted to talk to you about as I've been reflecting on my sobriety is how...