"Transformative Effects: My Journey with Intermittent Fasting, Sobriety, and a Caffeine-Free Life"
The author shares a personal journey of quitting various habits over 30 years, including meat, cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, and eating after 8 p.m., as part of a series of essays on stopping things. This pattern of quitting started in seventh grade after being influenced by Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and continued as a way to assert control and agency over life choices. The process was often challenging, with quitting smoking being the most difficult but also the most rewarding. The author views each act of quitting as a triumph of will and a step towards self-improvement, and continues to consider new habits to quit as part of this ongoing personal narrative.
