41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. Good luck with the not smoking thing EBD. It’s one tough nut to crack…..been three and half years for me now.

  4. I found the Nicorette Gum to be my salvation. You don’t just chew it up. Bite it a few times and park it in your lip until the next craving hits. I dealt with the psychological and the habit, kept up the gum for a few months and then cut that out entirely. Worked for me. The nicotine that I was ingesting was not going into my lungs and eventually I cut it out after cutting the gum to lowest strength and then in half.
    It’s been: Thirteen years, nine months, two weeks, one day, 7 hours, 26 minutes and 50 seconds. 201492 cigarettes not smoked, saving $85,633.56. Life saved: 1 year, 47 weeks, 6 days, 15 hours, 0 minutes.

  6. Thanks Tam and Patsplace. The first two days were (relatively) easy because I was still getting nicotine delivered via the tar in my lungs, but then…the chips hit the fan. It’ll be four days now in a couple of hours.
    RT: Joseph Ashby at American Thinker: “5 Reasons Why a Constitutional Convention Is a Better Idea than Just Electing More Republicans.”

    Mark Levin’s new book The Liberty Amendments proposes that state legislatures use their Article V power to call a convention to propose new constitutional amendments for state ratification. The unorthodox process seems impractical at first — it’s never been used, it’s off the mainstream political radar, few people even know it exists, etc. — but a closer look reveals transformative advantages over the prevailing political strategies of the day.

    Interesting, and worth reading.

  7. Best thing thing you can do for yourself. Do you have plans for all the money you will save?
    If you are needing to watch the Cramps withdrawal must be worse than I ever imagined.

  9. EBD, and others struggling with quitting cigarettes:
    http://www.wimp.com/quitadvice/
    5.40 minutes of as much common sense as one can take in 1 sitting. Please give it a chance…
    I quit because I was completely tired of it, it was an incredible release to know I didn’t have to do this any more.
    It’s been +25? years. I’m still relieved by this notion, and have never wanted to return to it. Never.
    I believe Mr. Carr made his millions by helping others quit, for him, it was too late and he died some years later of smoking related causes. In the above video, he gives his “secret” away.

  13. Deb, your post about the article at “Return of Kings” is spot-on. I find the so-called “Manosphere” to be a 50/50 mix of hatred and resentment of the women they’re trying to manipulate with “game” and manifestly un-self-aware self-loathing.
    When you read the large print between the lines most of these young men, who conflate the modern dating/bar scene with the ancient and more important communion between man and woman, are coming from a very sad and defeated place. The almost scriptural tone – like they’re high priests of getting laid in dissipated urban environment – evokes formerly earnest young men, now defeatedly fatalistic, who’ve resentfully given up on the things that matter in life and are now deigning to write a “bible” of how to negotiate the wreckage of their own (and society’s) making.
    The posturing, the avowed certainty, and the taking of comfort in “manly” rule-making to deal with an environment that is non-viable as a direct consequence of a lack of proper social and moral rules, is vaguely repulsive at best, and their proudly announced victories – most of them apocryphal, probably – are always Pyrrhic.

  14. FYI — I as a child was a pest to my father in the late 1960’s about smoking two packs a day. It was because we were taught in scvhools how bad smoking was. My father’s friends harassed him and tempted him with cigartettes the whole time he was quiting — we made a deal — I would never smoke if he quit smoking and he did so on February 29th 1972. He held true as did I. My father is alive today because he did quit in 1972. I never smoked a cigarette in my life. I am blessed with his presence every day.

  15. EBD: Good news is that after day 5, 7, and 9 the cravings don’t ever get any worse. Just grimace and bear it. My best advice is to avoid watching any classic films for the first 3 months, don’t drink, and stay out of traffic.
    … Quitting usually allows you to reset your diurnal clock. While I’d hate to loose a part of my insomniac world, I found that, to avoid nicotine, early to bed was a good idea. I actually saw the sunrise for a while. If you don’t eat after 6 PM you won’t pick up that much weight either. Keep a cup of ice near by.
    I’d wish you luck but quitting, like so many other things, isn’t about luck. It’s about perseverance.

  16. Re: Cramps
    If the patients weren`t mental when they got to the hospital, they were by the time those bastards left!

  17. Re: Smoking
    I quit in 1992. I went to town, bought five four gallon plastic jerry cans filled with purified water. I drank water until my eyeballs were floating, avoiding coffee or other beverages that I could associate with smoking. I stayed on the farm for seven days straight. Went for a two mile walk every night.
    By day 10, I had it beat. Never had one drag.
    Good luck EBD. I`ll say a quick prayer for you tonight!

  18. All the best in your noble fight with nicotine EBD. About 30 years ago I volunteered to help take off the crops. I drove that tractor for 3 days straight. I wouldn’t let myself out and after 3 days the cravings were gone. After 6 months the desire was gone and I’ve never looked back. As others have said it is a tough fight to have but one well worth it. God Bless.

  21. Your responses to bad Tips music – like Cat Stevens’ “I’m Going to Get Me a Gun” – always crack me up.
    Wrt the Indian weed, that’s been my approach too, whenever I’ve quit (for years at a time): get the monkey off my back instead of feeding it patches and gum. The actual addiction itself – as opposed to situational/associational desires/prompts – goes away, save for the odd momentary fit, after a week or ten days. Like you and ∞ ≠ ø point out, the key is to avoid these prompts, like coffee or beer, or friendly smokers, for a month or three, and to persevere. The actual quitting part is just half – well, maybe three-quarters – of the battle.
    Unrelated Reader Tip: Beat your intimacy issues with llamas.
    h/t

  22. I quit without the slightest problem. Not so much as a twinge. Isn’t that annoying?

  26. Thanks, EBD. Your analysis of those young men is spot on. I sometimes delve into the Manosphere because I have beautiful growing daughters and want to know what they’ll face when they leave the house. Those young men are so cynical, angry and sad at the same time, even as they manipulate everyone around them for very transient pleasures. Even when they make conquests, the posts they publish describing those conquests are bitter, ugly and angry. They see good in no one, and find long-term commitment and love between two people laughable rather than beautiful. I think rabid feminism is a lot to blame for how they’ve turned out. God help the West.

  28. Neo-AGW Red-Green Report.
    It’s over, it’s over… But, but, “Our message remains unaffected though, bringing awareness to the pressing issues of climate change in the arctic.”
    “Richard dropped me a note the other day advising: “This has been the coldest season with the most ice since we started Arctic Watch in 2000. Almost no whales. The NWPassage is still blocked with ice. Some of the bays still have not melted!”
    The days are getting significantly shorter now and the temperatures are dropping fast.”
    …-
    “We row into Cambridge Bay, the official conclusion of our Mainstream Last First expedition”
    http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/we-row-into-cambridge-bay-the-official-conclusion-of-our-mainstream-last-first-expedition/

  29. AlMohammed is a cannibal. Al’s not a ditherer.
    …-
    “Irwin Cotler: Syrians are dying while the world dithers” (NP)

  32. Neo-AGW Red-Green’s Book of Records Now Open for Entries.
    …-
    “Summer of 2013 among coolest on record in Alabama, continues cooling trend, climatologist says”
    “HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – From Huntsville to Mobile, summer temperatures have been cooler than normal this year.
    In fact, the summer of 2013 will be listed as one of the coolest summers in the past 131 years, according to state climatologist John Christy, director of the Earth Systems Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
    Christy announced today that this summer is the fifth-coolest on record in Alabama with average temperatures that are almost 2 degrees below normal.
    “Overall, this summer was both cool and wet, although we warmed and dried as August came to a close,” Christy said in the announcement. “Several local daily climate records were set for the coolest daytime high temperatures.”
    http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/08/summer_of_2013_among_coolest_o.html

  33. AlMohammed’s Paranoidism.
    Al says, spybird was launched by the Joos.
    …-
    “Egyptian man arrests swan on suspicion of spying
    Telegraph.co.uk – ‎1 hour ago‎
    The suspected winged infiltrator was taken to a police station in the Qena governorate, 280 miles southeast of Cairo, amid increasing fears over foreign spies.”

  34. PET Cemetery Report.
    Al-Justine’s POT Party Guide included.
    …-
    “Arizona baby dies in 39 C car while dad smoked pot elsewhere”
    (canoenews)
    “How Trudeau is shifting the thinking behind smoking up” (G-M)

  35. Bush is going after Syria because they may have WMD’s and may have used them.It is a matter of ‘national security’.
    Oh,wait a minute….

  38. “Obama has surrendered.”
    …-
    “Surrender”
    “Obama has surrendered. NBC reports, “Obama will seek Congressional approval before any military action against Syria”. Strikes would be “effective tomorrow or next week or one month from now,” the President was quoted as saying.
    As I wrote upon hearing that the British had pulled out of his ‘limited but decisive’ symbolic gesture: “it’s over.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/08/31/surrender/#more-31341

  39. Susan Riced on O’s Parade:
    “National Security Advisor Susan Rice, center left, looks at her notes as President Barack Obama delivers remarks about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/cms/binary/8857940.jpg
    …-
    “Officials: Obama reversed course, decided Friday night to seek Congress’ authority on Syria”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Officials+Obama+reversed+course+decided+Friday+night+seek/8857939/story.html

  40. Dare to be an Obama.
    Dare Not To Be Alone.
    “In the end, Barack Obama found himself alone.”
    “All the President needed to do was say the word.”
    “Instead, he went for a walk. For 45 minutes on Friday evening, he strolled through the south lawn of the White House, just out of view of the ubiquitous tourists gawking with iPhones held aloft from the National Mall. His companion was Denis McDonough, the chief of staff and longtime foreign policy adviser. In the muggy late August dusk, Obama made his concerns known. He did not want to commit to this war alone.”
    …-
    “Unwilling To Act Alone, Obama Pulls Back From Brink Of War”
    “After an evening stroll with his chief of staff on Friday, Obama decided that he didn’t want to go to war alone, surprising even his closest aides by choosing to seek congressional approval for a military strike”
    http://swampland.time.com/2013/08/31/unwilling-to-act-alone-obama-pulls-back-from-brink-of-war/#ixzz2daqumwsI

  41. I quit and about 4 months later….tried a cigarette I bummed from a friend. I knew it would be just great….the smoke in the smoking pit smelled oh so good.
    I lit up and damned near choked to death on the first drag….had difficulty breathing in a big way and was as dizzy as you can imagine, coughing my brains out.
    The mind had said…this will taste great…..reality said otherwise , proving to me that the longing for that delightful smell was a grand illusion.
    Stay with it….the longings are for something that is a memory and not real.

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