Quit Like a Woman

How we build a life we want to live in is the focus of the rest of this chapter

Disappoint other people with your no; don’t disappoint yourself with a yes you’ll later resent

Lastly and most important: If you want people to respect your boundaries, you have to respect theirs

addiction says, Something is wrong over here

learning model assumes curability and adaptability (we unlearn addiction the same way we learn it)

Does drinking feel like it takes more than it gives

But we are a people who need definition—we need to know what is broken so we can fix the broken

Here the alcohol industry and the recovery industry converged, settling on the inherently eugenic belief that asserts humans are to blame for their alcoholism, not the toxic substances marketed to them in ways that subvert their rational thinking.

We are constantly reevaluating the way it’s “always been done.”

This is the way cigarettes always worked for me; first a prop, second a drug