Is it normal if i stop my vices, i feel like i am wasting my life?

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Just as an introduction, I love whiskey and tobacco.

I've tried not using them and I just feel like I'm not living my life to the potential it could be lived.

I have made changes to try and mitigate the worst of the health aspects. I changed from smoking to the safest form of smokeless tobacco I could find after reading through scientific research and I only ever sip the whiskey for taste, actually it is definitely the taste I prefer over the alcohol.

I tried quitting both substances for patches of time before and I really felt like I wasn't living the life that was right for me. I didn't feel like I had that joyful spark of life's inspiration I had before.

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  • thr
    10 years ago

    It's up to you to decide what is the overall best choice to make. Being healthy is good, but I think being happy is more important. You shouldn't be healthy just to be healthy. You should be healthy if it makes your life better.

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    • baronroderick
      10 years ago

      This guy knows what he says. Forget about the barely disguised Puritans below, they're speculating about what they don't know with moralism, either sacred or secular.

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  • NotStrangeBird
    10 years ago

    Keep the whiskey, ditch the tobacco.

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  • baronroderick
    10 years ago

    My hedonistic rule for drugs: they must be social, ritual, give freedom and pleasure. They must not be banal, secluding, make you a slave and fuck your body. I love my senses too much, that's why I just smoke tobacco and weed now and then with a pipe and have never approached cocaine or synthetics, though I once tried a very controlled LSD with a more experienced friend. I don't want to become a short-winded fellow who can't even climb a ladder. I don't want my olfactive sense to be ruined. I like that my spirit takes part in the pleasure, instead of wallowing in it, as Montaigne says. I don't want to ruin my skin, get catarrhs and become unfit for sports, deprive myself of that beauty and that health. I drink at least once in a week, but I drink a lot more once in every two or three months when I go out with friends. I like the Falstaffian excess, even the moderation needs to be moderated.
    What you need is a compromise between the daily use and the long abstinence. We're the "made for alternative substances" kind, so I'm sure you'll find a way to solve your world. Best wishes, guy.

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  • Pwnfacertwn
    10 years ago

    Nicotine's nicotine. There are "safer" forms of consumption in terms of delivery mechanism/cancer risk, but it's the nicotine that wears down the lining of you coronary arteries. It doesn't matter if you're on the patch, gum, whatever - the drug itself is a killer.

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  • sliver_shine29
    10 years ago

    It's normal to think that way. But if you think about it, it's almost like the seven deadly sins. It reminds me of Gluttony. Sure you could have it and it would make you happy, but it's not good for you. If we always did things that we wanted to do nothing would really be accomplished.

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