Travis, I am glad you have been able to do the soul searching needed and found the answers to your questions. I understand the call of the nasty habit of pop. I was almost a year clean as it were from my pepsi addiction. I have to humbly admit to having fallen back into that habit and I am in the process of breaking it again (for the third time). I struggle with a tobacco addiction as well in a different form. I have always lived with a smoker so second hand smoke has always been present (I still live with a smoker). I have spent time away from it (travel and several months at college away from the family) and I seem to suffer from the addictive effects of it when I am under stress. I will actually go through the same withdrawals as a smoker does when they quit. It is the most confusing thing for a non-smoker to deal with. I am walking this journey with you and I honour you for your brutal honesty.
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