This is a topic that I have avoided forever because I never wanted to have to admit to my own addiction publicly.
But here I am today admitting to you that I have a very severe nicotine addiction.
I have had a constant stream of nicotine in my system for the past five years.
Not a day has gone by in the last five years where I haven't consumed nicotine in some form.
And recently I decided that I want to try to quit.
And because I'm at a place in my life where I'm trying to quit, I feel comfortable talking about the topic because although I'm nothing fully off of it yet, I'm working towards it.
And so I feel morally okay about discussing the topic because prior to this point in my life, I wasn't ready to quit.
I didn't want to quit.
I loved it.
I was like, I'm not quitting.
And even though I didn't want to quit, I still knew it wasn't something I should discuss publicly because it's not something I ever want to promote.
I was never proud of my nicotine addiction.
In fact, I was always kind of ashamed of my nicotine addiction.
But at the same time, I was not ready to quit because it played a huge role in my life in a weird way.
And I didn't want to quit.
But two weeks ago, I decided I was done.
And now this is the topic I feel comfortable discussing.
So let me give you a little bit of history about my nicotine use.
Okay?
So I got introduced to nicotine at 15 years old.