# How I broke my drinking habit

- Institution: TED
- Department: How to Be a Better Human
- Speaker: Edith Zimmerman
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/edith_zimmerman_how_i_broke_my_drinking_habit)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How do you fill your time after deciding to get sober? For journalist and cartoonist Edith Zimmerman, the answer was rediscovering activities she enjoyed as a kid. She chats with Chris Duffy, host of the “How to Be a Better Human” podcast, about how she quit drinking, learned to replace bad habits with healthier ones — and how you can do the same. This episode is part of a series of bonus videos from "How to Be a Better Human." You can find the extended interview on the TED Audio Collective YouTube Channel.

## Lectures

1. [How I broke my drinking habit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/edith_zimmerman_how_i_broke_my_drinking_habit/c22c0d61c397), 14 min (TED's player)