• @[email protected]
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    1435 months ago

    This nonsense again? John Hislop runs a gambling blog for money, and published this googlebait years ago to get sweet SEO candy. Clearly it’s still working.

        • Bonehead
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          It’s Francis Bacon, the author that said “Knowledge is power”. Come on now, this is easy enough to look up…it’s not rocket appliances.

            • splicerslicer
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              The expression you’re looking for is “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” Not that it matters, it’s all water under the fridge anyway, mostly a moo point.

              • @[email protected]
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                Come on, man, it’s “water under the bridge”. I want to contribute but it felt like we were drifting into malaphors there for a second, so I’m gonna play it by year and just see what comes next.

                • ettyblatant
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                  395 months ago

                  Not to be rude, but it’s actually “play it by ear”. I’m trying to come up with something witty to say, but I’m dropping a blank.

    • @Patches
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      Hey I can quit when I want to.

      When I want to. Not when you or the doctor, or everyone else in my life, wants me to…

      • (Now deceased) Addict who smoked from a wheelchair with an attached oxygen tank at his daughters wedding. He did not make it to see his first grandchild.
      • Ignotum
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        55 months ago

        Don’t let anyone tell you how to take… Erm, how to live your life!

      • The Menemen!
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        It is true though. When you really want to, stopping isn’t that hard. I chain smoked for 13 years. And then the time came when I really wanted to stop (I had an upcoming marriage and just needed that money). And because I really wanted to, I did stop.

        I’d still suggest to make a plan beforehand though. Mine were nicotine free cigarettes. They really helped my hands to stay occupied and, even more important, I still could go on a smoking break at work from time to time. I let that fade out slowly.

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          Stopping is that hard. But it’s not impossible.

          It’s been 6 years and I still crave cigarettes, or my vape, every time I see them being used. Could be 4 floors down in front of the building across the street through a window. I still want a hit.

          But I did it. I don’t want to be remembered as that guy who left his daughter all alone in life because he’s a selfish prick. Choosing cigarettes over your own children is fucked.

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            It’s been almost 14 years for me now. It will never go away completely. Just 2 days ago I rewatched some Sopranos and saw Tony smoke a cigar. Immediately I was extremely tempted to order some nice cigars online. Quenched that though, remembering how last time I tried “just puffing” a cigar and immediately drew deep down (that was my single and only slipup). Nope, no cigars, no shisha, no nothing.

            It gets less problematic every year though and the triggers get fewer. Seeing someone smoke in front of a restaurant e.g only triggers a “Uff, good for me that I stopped!” nowadays. That used to be different.

            What I meant is, that if you really want to, it is defintly something eveyone can manage. Yes, the addiction is real. But the human will is an amazing thing. One has to find the reason why to want to stop. Then it is defintly possible for everyone.

            I was the “Uff, at least I don’t smoke as much as he” guy people looked at to feel better about their own cigarette addiction and no one believed I’d ever stop. But when I really wanted to, I just did. The half assed 20 times I stopped before that though… One has to find his “I want to stop” reason to actually do it.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      On a serious note, there is a type of natural Antidepressant in cigarette smoke (MAOIs) which you come off of like 2 weeks delayed because it has a type of reservoir in the body. So once you quit you can get like delayed withdrawal symptoms.

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        25 months ago

        Yeah, can confirm, though it was usually around a week for me. First couple of days are rough, then you start feeling better, then a few days later you feel like shit again.

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          Yeah not sure about the time frame. For me it wasn’t too bad because I switched to vaping so I still had nicotine. But it would have helped if I had known why I was suddenly in such a super bad mood for a few days haha.

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      When I used to smoke I made the new years resolution ever year ‘to stop more often next year’

      I go on holiday more nowadays, feels like a better use of the money

    • Ann Archy
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      That is fucking hilarious! Is what a 15-year old high-schooler would say!

      • Melllvar
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        Close. It’s from someone that a 15 year old high schooler might be assigned to read.

        • Ann Archy
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          WC Fields? I doubt a single 15 year old in America knows who that even is. The point is that the joke is almost a hundred years old. Do you want to do Who’s on First too?

      • kase
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        This is so absurd. It sounds like it comes from one of those AI presidents-playing-minecraft videos on youtube.

      • @[email protected]
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        I still can’t believe twitter made Donald Trump a Potus. It has to be one of the wildest stories in our country’s history.

        • @[email protected]
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          Don’t forget that enough people were so impressed with his fuckery that there’s a very real danger that he’ll be given a second shot at it.

      • Maeve
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        And me, switching from stinky cigarettes to candy flavored vape. I thought a month or two max. It’s been three. Time to fix that. Look out world (fr). Maybe since it’s warmer, my bike is fixed and I’ve almost gotten the interior of my home back in order, it won’t be so difficult when I replace those nicotine hits with dopamine hits? 😬 🙏🏽

        • @[email protected]
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          75 months ago

          I quit smoking by switching to candy flavored vape. Then I quit vaping and it was easier than quitting smoking.

          • Maeve
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            55 months ago

            Yep. This week will be particularly busy/trying, and I expect my current vape to run out Tuesday. Please send good vibes, that I don’t give in to temptations, bite off anyone’s head, or grind my teeth to dust. Tyia.

        • @[email protected]
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          I replaced my caffeine habit with a water drinking habit. You truly do swap one addiction for another one, and it’s really bonkers how I legit get the exact same withdrawal symptoms if I haven’t drank water as I would if I didn’t get my coffee

          • Maeve
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            15 months ago

            Maybe Freud’s oral fixation theory isn’t so insane, after all. I posit lunder/over emotional nourishment is as credible as a cause as under/overfeeding.

            I know, just musing.

      • Maeve
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        35 months ago

        Hey, I took your comment as joking. In caseI misunderstood, I wish you all the grit in overcoming your challenges.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      I was too, until they changed the formula a year and a half/2 years ago? Started tasting more like Pepsi to me, not a fan. I can do Cherry Coke Zero on occasion, or if I’ve got a craving I’ll do regular Zero with a squirt of orange Miso.

      • @Grass
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        Please tell me miso is a brand and not japanese miso

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          Oh God - auto correct fucked me. I meant Mio. Like the concentrated drink mix that comes in small bottles that you can add to water.

          • @Grass
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            Oh ok. I have seen those before yet didn’t think of them somehow.

  • @[email protected]
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    That joke is stolen from Richard Pryor. “I’ve been doing coke for 15 years and I’m still not addicted.” Or something like that.

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        Older actually. The gentleman who came up with the word addiction was quoted as saying “I’ve been coming up with words for fifteen years and I’m still not…I’ll get back to you.”