Give Up the Hooch: Booze Free for as long as you please!

[Metalcat]

I quit just over 5 years ago, but decided to drink a bit on my current trip.

I've been spending 2 weeks in Paris and Copenhagen, and am having an occasional Kir Royal here are there. Even these small <5oz drinks are able to cause almost immediate negative impact on my system. It's wild.

For the first several years of not drinking I was pretty convinced I would never drink again because it's so awful, but now I kind of like occasionally experimenting as it's like a booster reminding me why I don't generally do this. Lol.

I am very much looking forward to getting back home soon where mocktails are readily available and no one smokes at restaurants. The smoking is fucking killing me.

[Bobo629]

I quit just over 5 years ago, but decided to drink a bit on my current trip.

I've been spending 2 weeks in Paris and Copenhagen, and am having an occasional Kir Royal here are there. Even these small <5oz drinks are able to cause almost immediate negative impact on my system. It's wild.

For the first several years of not drinking I was pretty convinced I would never drink again because it's so awful, but now I kind of like occasionally experimenting as it's like a booster reminding me why I don't generally do this. Lol.

I am very much looking forward to getting back home soon where mocktails are readily available and no one smokes at restaurants. The smoking is fucking killing me.

I applaud your life changes and also your willingness to keep it where it should be, a once in a while thing. Avoiding alcohol is EASY for me. If I have even one beer it's a certainty that I will get a hangover the next morning. I don't know what it is, but it keeps me on the straight and narrow.

So they are smoking it up over there? Cigarettes or MJ? Not sure about Europe's stand on MJ. Or cigarettes, for that matter.

[Metalcat]

I quit just over 5 years ago, but decided to drink a bit on my current trip.

I've been spending 2 weeks in Paris and Copenhagen, and am having an occasional Kir Royal here are there. Even these small <5oz drinks are able to cause almost immediate negative impact on my system. It's wild.

For the first several years of not drinking I was pretty convinced I would never drink again because it's so awful, but now I kind of like occasionally experimenting as it's like a booster reminding me why I don't generally do this. Lol.

I am very much looking forward to getting back home soon where mocktails are readily available and no one smokes at restaurants. The smoking is fucking killing me.

I applaud your life changes and also your willingness to keep it where it should be, a once in a while thing. Avoiding alcohol is EASY for me. If I have even one beer it's a certainty that I will get a hangover the next morning. I don't know what it is, but it keeps me on the straight and narrow.

So they are smoking it up over there? Cigarettes or MJ? Not sure about Europe's stand on MJ. Or cigarettes, for that matter.

Cigarettes. Both Paris and Copenhagen are very heavy cigarette smoking cities, but marijuana is illegal. Which is interesting coming from Canada where smoking is prohibited in most areas, but marijuana is legal. I'm much more accustomed to smelling marijuana in and around my neighborhood rather than cigarettes.

Meanwhile here in Paris, even if smoking isn't allowed in an area, someone will be smoking. I basically can't escape it. Close to 30% of the population here smokes, it's wild.