In January 2021, rock musician and author of Freda Love Smith watched as insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol. It felt like the culmination of eight months of pandemic anxiety. She needed a drink, badly. 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. 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, weaving in the childhood experiences and cultural influences that fed her addictions to these behaviors. Part memoir, part sociological research, and part wry observation on addiction, media, work, and pandemic behavior, I Quit Everything unearths what becomes of our identities once we've quit everything.