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Chantix worked for me, somehow, but what really worked was Alan Carr's book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. He holds your hand through the process, and gets you through the rough patches. It's a relatively quick read; I managed to clear it within a day. It's a rather slim volume. The Chantix didn't do all it could do, because (1) I'd already not had cigarettes in a couple of weeks by that point, and (2) it turned me into a shaking, dehydrated mess in the middle of summer, and (3) I'm /horrible/ with remembering to take a pill. If Chantix were BC, I'd be pregnant 10 times over by now. The good thing about Chantix is that it kind of helped facilitate the reading of the book. It was like, "Well, now that the pills are here, it's do or die time. Let's try reading this thing and see if it helps." Not every thing is for everyone, but I know the book helped me. If you want, I can give you my copy. I don't need it anymore. Accidental Pregnancy Snype: 
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I'd be a bad goon if I didn't come in here to mention that pr0k's home smoked bacon is really loving good. I think I'll finally be making the jump into smoking my own meats. Also, gourd made really tasty spicy lamb meatballs that were so good that hours later I burped and the burp tasted like good meatballs. Oh and frisbee is the lamest of all sports/excuses. Ninja edit: the main page of the GWS wiki hit over a half million page views. We're sharing food education with the Internet! Croatoan fucked around with this message at 13:49 on May 30, 2012 |
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Halalelujah posted:I was going to go on chantix, but despite my insurance covering it, I'm not going to. I lived for years taking strong malaria meds and every night was a coin toss on whether or not I had a cold-sweat nightmare. That combined with my day job made for an unpleasant life...I would rather deal with cold-turkey anger and frustration than have my nights punish me as much as my days. I didn't know the open ocean thing was commonplace. That's kinda neat. Going into Chantix, I was already on edge because of some depression issues (a side effect of "you might want to kill yourself when taking this drug" made me pretty uneasy). Luckily, it was just dreams beating people and things up. Given your line of work, I'm sure you're making the right decision. Good luck, and Godspeed. This time around, I'm going cold turkey with an occasional packet of snus to take the edge off if, say, I give myself hives like the last time I quit cold turkey. Also giving up drinking for a while. There's no way in hell I can get off smoking if I continue to drink, so adios booze for a bit.
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Aside from having to take a mental inventory every morning to determine whether or not the dreams I had the night before were in fact real, Chantix gave me borderline violent mood swings, nausea, and depression. I ended up going off the Chantix cold turkey because of what it was doing to me, and that was a mistake, because I was real hosed up for a couple weeks after that. Then some real life poo poo hit the fan, and I started smoking again. My wife was understanding about my smoking, and also said when it was time to quit again, no way in hell was she letting me take the chantix.
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Shitfuck. I missed the whole bartolimu beet-down. Those threads are beautiful (or should I say BEEETiful?? No, I shouldn't). I'd like Happy Hat to re-open the voting thread for a few seconds, just so I can give it my five.
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Eat This Glob posted:I didn't know the open ocean thing was commonplace. That's kinda neat. Going into Chantix, I was already on edge because of some depression issues (a side effect of "you might want to kill yourself when taking this drug" made me pretty uneasy). Luckily, it was just dreams beating people and things up. Given your line of work, I'm sure you're making the right decision. Good luck, and Godspeed. I quit years ago and I still crave a cig when I'm having a drink. Quitting meth was easier than tobacco by a long shot.
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I'm currently on another quitting attempt, and I haven't tried any method other than cold turkey. I'm not really interested in the patch or gum or what have you, but after hearing all these testimonials, goddamn do I want to try Chantix. Not for help quitting smoking, mind.
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SubG posted:What's a good place to buy scotch online? Depending on where you are shipping to, K&L is an excellent option. They aren't a good choice if you want the, well, pedestrian options available at a good supermarket. But if you want some more interesting options, many exclusive to K&L, they are great. They also have an excellent spirits blog. https://www.klwines.com
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Apparently it's next to impossible to swallow a whole tablespoon of cinnamon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNQEcTGkAgM
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My brother once gave me the tip that filling a whole can of powdered cinnamon into the car radiator can fix minor leaks, maybe it's related to that?  (I've never tried it because, you know, what the gently caress go and fix your loving car you scrub, but it sounds almost too implausible to be true.)
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Ah, Internet challenges. The cinnamon challenge is difficult because it's powdered bark, essentially. Someone will jump in with the technical terms, but suffice it to say that cinnamon is hard to swallow because it doesn't like to get wet, clumpy, and all lubed up for your throat. My favorite cinnamon challenge video is the black lady that completely underestimates it and tries to eat an entire ladle of cinnamon. Spoiler: she does not succeed.
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pork never goes bad posted:Depending on where you are shipping to, K&L is an excellent option. They aren't a good choice if you want the, well, pedestrian options available at a good supermarket. But if you want some more interesting options, many exclusive to K&L, they are great. They also have an excellent spirits blog.
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Sjurygg posted:My brother once gave me the tip that filling a whole can of powdered cinnamon into the car radiator can fix minor leaks, maybe it's related to that? Egg whites works better.
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pnumoman posted:Ah, Internet challenges. The cinnamon challenge is difficult because it's powdered bark, essentially. Someone will jump in with the technical terms, but suffice it to say that cinnamon is hard to swallow because it doesn't like to get wet, clumpy, and all lubed up for your throat.
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Happy Hat posted:Ahh Danish birthday traditions in the provinces.. They are wholesome family entertainment you can trust.  So the Danes have a South too. I wanna see some big old ten gallon hats with viking horns on 'em. Howdy Yjäll!
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Steve Yun posted:Apparently it's next to impossible to swallow a whole tablespoon of cinnamon Cinnamon gets very viscous when it gets wet. I like to put a sprinkle of cinnamon in my coffee grounds sometimes and once (when I had taken  ) I accidentally dumped half a shaker of cinnamon onto the grounds and when I added water it turned into cinnamon snot and made a big mess everywhere  I think when people do that cinnamon challenge thing they probably think it'll be like eating a spoonful of sugar then when they put the spoon in their mouth half the powder goes up their sinuses and makes them choke while the rest gets stuck in their throat and makes them puke. But that doesn't stop those videos being the best thing on youtube next to people eating ghost chillis and people doing flaming shots  On a related note, one of my friends has been dared to eat a french fry with a drop of Blair's death sauce (the million scoville unit variety) on it for $200. I can't wait to film it and put it on youtube for everyone to laugh at his stupidity.
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pnumoman posted:Ah, Internet challenges. The cinnamon challenge is difficult because it's powdered bark, essentially. Someone will jump in with the technical terms, but suffice it to say that cinnamon is hard to swallow because it doesn't like to get wet, clumpy, and all lubed up for your throat. yes this is the best one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyk7utV_D2I "IS U K IS U GOOD? CUZ I WANT'D 2 KNO~~~~"
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GrAviTy84 posted:yes this is the best one. Holy poo poo I love you. So funny.
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SubG posted:Man, their search criteria thing is hosed. If you click that you only want to see scotches from Scotland it'll only show you 20-odd results because all the Speyside scotches seem to be listed as `single malt whiskey' (not even `Highland single malt whiskey' or `Speyside single malt whiskey') and all the Islay scotches are listed as `Islay single malt whiskey'. Of course neither of these terms is selectable. Irritating. What do you like? I could make probably forty informed recommendations from k&l
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Hahahaha, that GloZell one is by far the best one I've seen
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Scientastic posted:What did you do with the remaining 47.5 hours? Absolutely nothing useful. It was glorious.
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Macaroni, why don't you love us anymore?
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cyberia posted:
Where can I meet friends like you? I would probably do this for free, let alone for $200. Stupid-hot things own.
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GrAviTy84 posted:yes this is the best one. Someone should have taken a minute to google what the cinnamon challenge is.
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:Someone should have taken a minute to google what the cinnamon challenge is. someone should have googled a lot of things. She'll likely be scarred from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFo4AqyIPsA
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Joborgzorz posted:Where can I meet friends like you? I would probably do this for free, let alone for $200. Stupid-hot things own. Hell, if you want to do it and film it we can probably find enough people in GWS to donate to the cause but this sauce apparently has three times more capsacin than police-issue capsicum spray does. You only need one or two drops in a pot of chilli to make it crazy hot and we're daring our friend to put that much on one french fry and eat it.
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GrAviTy84 posted:someone should have googled a lot of things. She'll likely be scarred from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFo4AqyIPsA Haha this is some Fire Marshall Bill stuff here. A few months from now she's going to be bald, missing an eye and half her teeth
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GrAviTy84 posted:yes this is the best one.
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therattle posted:Amazing. Thank you. CuddleChunks posted::Howdy Yjäll! Goddammit, quote is not edit.
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pork never goes bad posted:What do you like? I could make probably forty informed recommendations from k&l
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cyberia posted:Hell, if you want to do it and film it we can probably find enough people in GWS to donate to the cause but this sauce apparently has three times more capsacin than police-issue capsicum spray does. You only need one or two drops in a pot of chilli to make it crazy hot and we're daring our friend to put that much on one french fry and eat it. Wikipedia tells me that police-issue pepper spray is 1.5million+ scoville, and I've eaten baskets of 900k scoville chicken wings. Although now that I think about it the scoville scale may not be linear. Either way my friends and I are stupid and do things like that for fun. It's probably a good thing nobody is around to egg us on with cash  Ninja edit: I totally want to watch your friend's misery too. AllTerrineVehicle fucked around with this message at 13:33 on May 31, 2012 |
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GrAviTy84 posted:someone should have googled a lot of things. She'll likely be scarred from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFo4AqyIPsA Man that woman is desperate for attention.
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GrAviTy84 posted:yes this is the best one.
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:Man that woman is desperate for attention. Well, I'm assuming she makes a living doing this. And seeing that she's a YouTube partner with tons of hits on her videos, I think that's a fairly safe assumption. Plus, she's an aspiring comedian, so desperate for attention pretty much sums up what she wants to do as a career.
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I *think* the Scoville scale is linear. I've eaten and quite liked nagas in the past, but it's all about the Trinidad Scorpion now. Meant to be tasty.
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Drink and Fight posted:Macaroni, why don't you love us anymore? For real.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:For real. It's because you guys are unbearable.
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Big going away party for our much beloved parish priest last night and in between all the homemade wine that the Italians brought and a very nice gentleman walking around pouring styrofoam cups full of tequila for people and insisting they toast together (again, and again, and again), I and many others feel not totally %100 today. I'm glad I live a pretty clean lifestyle because this sort of merrymaking on a regular basis could get pretty rough. Also I think I'm getting old. Now what's up with Macaroni he's a cool dude.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Now what's up with Macaroni he's a cool dude. Ragequit and deleted all the FB GWS Illuminati from his friendlist for reasons unknown (attention whoring.) oh god drat it just loving click http://youtu.be/MBfYQOSSPqc pr0k fucked around with this message at 17:32 on May 31, 2012 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:For real.
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