Excess is the way to success,
If you want to ruin any single thing.
As humans we are programmed to always want more and more of a "good thing", even when it becomes bad.
Having been a heroin addict in my younger teens through to my twenties didn't help with the whole "habits" thing neither.
However, kicking it completely on my own without any help at all, and all the while masking and hiding all the pain, suffering, agony, gut wrenching and violent vomiting episodes from my family did somehow teach me that I can do anything I set my mind, body and soul towards wholeheartedly.
Now days, I drink only GOOD red or white wines with meals (1 glass maximum), a weekly 6 pack of little bottle beers for post surfing chow downs and about 3-4 bottles of Ron Miel de Indias (local honey rum, off the charts good, old pirates drink) per year.
The Rum is downed quickly once opened, as it has to be drank practically frozen, but not too cold so as to solidify the honey.
The wines I discovered these pumps that allow you to top a freshly opened bottle, drink it a glass per day, and the very last glass is as fresh as the first.
The beers are 1/5 th of a liter each at 4.5% alcohol.
It boils down to a litre bottle of pure alcohol a year. Never get drunk anymore, ever.
Well, except when there's something special to celebrate, like when the last phooking quarantine was lifted, then I go all out with a shot of rum, a beer and a Xanax.
Moderation is the key. For me not consuming alcohol but a few days per week does the trick.
I only consume anything fresh, water and
fruit and my fresh ganja, daily.
I puff before surfing, and at any other time of day, or night, my neck/spine/lumbar bones require the alleviation from the constant pain.
It never takes the pain away, but it does make me not give a damn enough so that I stop feeling sorry for myself and get moving and doing things, regardless of pain threshold.