Almost 3 years after quiting a heavy 26 years habit. I quit cold turkey.

Currently being forced to move having no income and no social circle and family is distant.

Super proud I haven’t broken yet. I want one ALL THE DAMN TIME.

I use physical exercise to help me get through my cravings.

🎶 The best part of waking up…

Is chewing your Folger’s like nuts. 🎶

Can I pick where they put my extra finger?

SOS doesn’t stand for anything. People made it up later.

The original distress signal was CQD, which stood for “seeking you, distress” or “all stations, distress,” according to PBS. This was widely used by the British, while Germans used SOE and the Americans used NC, which meant “call for help without delay.”

A 1906 International Telegraphic Radio Conference effectively standardized communication by suggesting the simpler SOS, which is easier to signal because of its distinct dots and dashes sequence.

See the difference for yourself:

CQD: -.-./–.-/-…

SOS: …/—/…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/05/12/what-does-sos-mean-its-history-and-what-it-means-on-your-iphone/11746118002/

Imagine being unemployed and looking for work.

I have to answer every call.

Every call is spam. The number of calls I get has increased tenfold.

I’m certain that some of these jobs and recruitment sites aren’t actually hiring for anything. They are just collecting and selling my data.

At one point the VA assured me that a veteran’s medical debt is to the government and is not released simply because the veteran passed away.

Even things like the cable bill took months to resolve because we didn’t want to pay for services that weren’t needed after death. (It’s hard to find and cancel every account for someone who died and didn’t keep track of things.)

Your family isn’t poor if you can afford to take time off work just because your whole family died.

To prepare you for the future when the police stop you and ask to see your Disney papers.

After all if you don’t exist to Disney, you don’t really exist at all.

Tried buying some organic Oreos once.

They were quickly referred to as “punishment cookies”.

That one box lasted almost 3 months rather than the 3day lifespan of a normal Oreo.

Had a good doctor who told me you can’t “try to quit”. You can’t “cut back”. You can’t quit for other people or before you are ready. But once you are… he said every successful quitter he helped, quit cold turkey. You have to stop 100% or you won’t stop. He offered meds to help with the emotional and physical side effects. I declined.

I was a smoker for 20+ years, many of those I was well over a pack a day and I worked in a smoking bar for over a decade. It’s probably too late for me is what I thought, BUT I DID IT.

Quit 2 and a half years ago. It hasn’t gotten any easier yet. I still want to smoke daily. But I haven’t had a single puff. I still hang out with friends that smoke but I did change my normal environment. (Quit while I was moving to make breaking associated habits easier.)

The things I found most helpful when the craving kicks in… Exercise was the best. HARD physical labor. Also sleeping and eating. Luckily I was in decent shape already so eating a bit more often wasn’t a huge deal. The tons of extra exercise just burned it off or helped build up some muscle mass I didn’t know was possible.

I commute via boat. My standard is instant oatmeal w/ dried fruit in a mason jar with lid and a coozie.

I buy the oatmeal and dried fruit in bulk and prep a weeks worth at a time. The whole process takes less than 5 mins. While I’m getting ready for work I boil water and then pour it in just before leaving. By the time I load up on the boat it’s cool enough to eat.

Pretty sure you can just reverse the polarity.

Have you been to a Walmart though?

credited with helping the development of Improvac, which eradicates boar taint

but I am NOT social.

Said to another human while using a service that is designed for social interaction.

You might be awkward in public but you’re still human.

FR tho

It’s somehow three times the work to bury them a second time. Plus you always get stuck fixing during the day.

Remember kids, if you think you dug the hole deep enough, you didn’t.

They are called ducks because they duck.

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/67244-ducks-are-performing-head-bobbing-mating-dance-high-definiti

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