I Quit Everything: How One Womans Addiction to Quitting Helped Her Confront Bad Habits and Embrace Midlife Smith Freda Love

An experimental account of one woman's quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her life--which dares to ask if we're really better off without them.In January 2021, Freda Love Smith, acclaimed rock musician and author of Red Velvet Underground, watched as insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol. She needed a drink, badly. It felt like the culmination of eight months of pandemic anxiety.

Thus began her experiment to remove one addictive behavior from her life each month to see if sobriety was really all it was cracked up to be.With honesty and humor, Smith describes the effects of withdrawal from alcohol, sugar, caffeine, cannabis, and social media, But she suspected a midday whiskey wouldn't cure what was really ailing her--nor would her nightly cannabis gummy, or her four daily cups of tea, or any of the other substances she relied on to get through each day.