Ostriig on 4/1/2009 at 14:45
Alcohol. If it's over 50%, all the better, and a fine palinca's as good as it gets. I could go on listing my preference for certain beers, whiskeys, or proper Moldavian wines, and so on, but there's not much point - as a student, I've got to make do with what I can get, usually cheap pisswater beer and Teacher's. And no, I don't normally set out to get drunk, though it can happen every once in a while.
I also used to smoke, but I had to give it up on account of my stomach acting like God's punishment to bad men.
Oh, and not my case, but since we were on the topic: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQHKQbXal0&feature=related)
Scots Taffer on 4/1/2009 at 14:53
On the drugs side, weed has literally zero effect on me and I've tried it several times in several different environments so it wasn't one duff dose or anything, and I smoked cigarettes for about a year before I kicked them in my teens. I'll rarely smoke a cigar, even rarer a cigarette, but other than that nothing but alcohol.
I regret it actually. I'm much too socially and personally responsible now to do hard drugs, I wish I'd gotten the opportunity to mix with people in my younger years who I trusted to do x, coke or speed with (I had the opportunity to take it from people I didn't trust), though I think I wisely avoided hallucinogenics without any real feeling of loss.
glslvrfan on 4/1/2009 at 15:05
Quote Posted by Dia
Srsly. If you can give up cigs without killing your best friend/children/siblings during the first week, then let me know how you did it. Please.
:weird:
;)
First 3 days, so far so good...
Dont eat, no caffeine, and no sex .
Thats a lie.... I had plenty of caffeine and i did eat, but very very light snacks throughought the day, No sit down meals or restaurants.
Queue on 4/1/2009 at 18:30
holy shit...
Dia on 4/1/2009 at 18:37
Quote Posted by glslvrfan
First 3 days, so far so good...
Dont eat, no caffeine, and no sex .
Thats a lie.... I had plenty of caffeine and i did eat, but very very light snacks throughought the day, No sit down meals or restaurants.
Kudos! Are you using the patch or any other stop-smoking aids or just going cold turkey?
I know 'they' say you have to
want to quit in order to stop smoking successfully and that's where I have a problem. I keep hoping that the more people I know who quit, the more incentive it'll give me to do the same.
Kolya on 4/1/2009 at 19:53
Quote Posted by Queue
holy shit...
yeah...no sex! If that's what quitting means I'm out, smoking in the parlor and giving Queue's cat a new filling.
I avoid hallucinogenics as well. Control thing. I used to give company to friends who dropped acid, while I was happy to just get drunk off my ass. Even weed fucks with my head once in a while. Never had any problems with alcohol.
glslvrfan on 4/1/2009 at 20:29
cold turkey... no gum or mints or anything.....
the no sex is just gonna be for 3 or 4 days... my girlfriend likes it way too much to go longer than a week when unecessary.
Queue on 4/1/2009 at 20:43
Fffluffy?
LesserFollies on 4/1/2009 at 22:16
Quote Posted by Dia
I know 'they' say you have to
want to quit in order to stop smoking successfully and that's where I have a problem. I keep hoping that the more people I know who quit, the more incentive it'll give me to do the same.
I quit years ago after a decade of going through 1 1/2 to 2 packs a day. I did "want" to quit badly though, and yes, that helps. However, I know quite a few people who were iffy about quitting, but did it anyway--because it was the healthy thing to do, because their family begged them, because they were tired of having to sneak off to smoke--whatever.
Keep in mind that you feel
now that you'll miss it terribly, that you'll always long for a cigarette; that's simply not true. Once you've stopped for a good bit of time--say six months to a year--you may feel a slight twinge now and then when you see someone smoking, but that's it, and even that goes away. It will simply hold little interest for you. I can't believe I ever smoked.
It also seems to be true that people quit after several tries. It takes practice. So go for it! And good luck! If only to save money--don't know where you are, but here cigs are $2.00 a pack. I've got better uses for that sort of money. :D
june gloom on 4/1/2009 at 23:27
I've noticed a lot of people these days are quitting because it simply costs too much not to. They take a good hard look at the economy, then they calculate how much they spend on the goddamn things, and decide then and there that it's not worth it.
