What? You mean hearing loss?
Or losing the tip of a finger to a table saw blade? Getting sixty-hertzed in a Big Way?
Yeah - snootful of MDF dust. If that was going to cause me cancer I would have been dead and buried 15 times over. The number of cigarettes my mom smoked should have given her 20 kinds of cancer but didn’t - I must have inherited that trait.
The most common diseases are ALL lifestyle related. So are the injuries.
The most common diseases are ALL lifestyle related. So are the injuries.
Nobody deserves to die from whatever habit. Why the agressiveness and harsness?
We all do something stupid once in a while.
Jan
It's true, although smoking is not a healthy habit there are many other things that lead to serious diseases.
All types of pollution are perhaps worse than smoking.
Probably also occupational diseases.
It's hard to say, but i understand those who are annoyed by other people's cigarettes.
A Hollywood myth.
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To that end, take a little piece of hashish - about the size of a ferrite bead you'd put on a TO-220 lead - and drop it onto the tamped coffee in your portafilter; better than smoking it.
You can get a lot of medicine for <$20 these days...
Probably killed FZ. The Dean Martin look; drink in one hand, cig in the other, crooning into a mic on a stand - both hands occupied.
Rendered nicely by this guy -
I quit In January or 2024, so I made it over a year. I used nicotine vapes to help ease the transition and those helped a lot. Eventually I got tired of the vape and quit that too which was several orders of magnitude easier than quitting smoking tobacco. I also decided to take a bit of a break from cannabis recently after using that in various ways for the past 15 years or so. Going to try and keep that for special occasions rather than everyday all day.
I'd say if you're currently a smoker, you need to make it your #1 priority to quit. The benefits are huge, not just physical but a lot of mental stuff as well. You feel more in control of yourself, not beholden to a cancer causing addiction. The hardest part for me so far is figuring out what to do with all this new energy I have.
I'd say if you're currently a smoker, you need to make it your #1 priority to quit. The benefits are huge, not just physical but a lot of mental stuff as well. You feel more in control of yourself, not beholden to a cancer causing addiction. The hardest part for me so far is figuring out what to do with all this new energy I have.
Whoever told you that confused "lungs" with "liver". That's quite easy, as they perform a similar function. 😉
jeff
ain't that the truth...
I know quite a few industry and ummmm, industry adjacent people. The price of extracts, both traditional and solvent based is so low that the market for used grow gear is saturated. I ended up with some obscenely powerful shop lights for pennies on the dollar.
The problem I see with eaten THC containing products is that the buzz lasts too long. A puff or two and a couple of hours later, the effect is gone. Don't want to be stoned all day & night long.
Well, I imagine whoever determines the dosage in an edible specifies it in order to sell. I assume what sells best in terms of dosage per is about an order of magnitude higher than what I find "enjoyable". Hence the through hole ferrite bead description; the only common electronics thing I could think of that small. OK, maybe I could have said SOT23 size. A TO92 case size chunk would be far too much; "stoned all day & night long" from your spiked morning cup of coffee.
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My mother smoked as a result of trying to cope with having been a japanese prisoner of war in her preteens and nursing her mother death in the same 'camp'.
watching her struggle to breath on an oxygen machine in her late 60's and not much later die from lung cancer convinced me to never smoke.
if people wish to smoke, take drugs, drink, etc, that is their choice.
the evidence of the damage these things inflict on themselves and those around them is very well known these days.
All i will add is that i have the utmost respect, and give massive thanks to the British RAF soldiers for finding the pow camp and breaking out my mother and the few that they could.
watching her struggle to breath on an oxygen machine in her late 60's and not much later die from lung cancer convinced me to never smoke.
if people wish to smoke, take drugs, drink, etc, that is their choice.
the evidence of the damage these things inflict on themselves and those around them is very well known these days.
All i will add is that i have the utmost respect, and give massive thanks to the British RAF soldiers for finding the pow camp and breaking out my mother and the few that they could.
Wars suck.
The psychopaths who cause wars should be.... well...
Sorry about your mom and grand mother.
When I grew up, my mother smoked Salem cigarettes. Whenever I got home from school, if I smelled menthol cigarettes when I opened the front door... I equated that with being "home".
She did drop smoking cold turkey with my step-father when he developed a mild blood clot and he had to stop smoking too. ( He survived from that )... I admit she was a much stronger woman that you could see from the outside. I mean, she stopped just like that!
The psychopaths who cause wars should be.... well...
Sorry about your mom and grand mother.
When I grew up, my mother smoked Salem cigarettes. Whenever I got home from school, if I smelled menthol cigarettes when I opened the front door... I equated that with being "home".
She did drop smoking cold turkey with my step-father when he developed a mild blood clot and he had to stop smoking too. ( He survived from that )... I admit she was a much stronger woman that you could see from the outside. I mean, she stopped just like that!
For many years I had a very capable medical doctor that told me in private to think about a plan for my life: Stop drinking on your 30th birthday and smoking on your 40th. After a couple of years your body has repaired anything expect for lost brain cells.
For some reason I did exactly as he told me, it was my best birthday gift when I smoked my last cigarette. I simply quit and never looked back. Surprisingly a part of my social environment reacted quite negative to me silently stop drinking and later suddenly not smoking any more. Just because many of them had developed such an addiction to both and could simply not switch it off like me. Something I had not realized before. Instead of seeing this as a good example for them selves, they maybe felt it as proof of their own weakness. I went through some hard times and think I would not have made it drinking and smoking. Being able to work for more hours a day than others and being permanentely sober is quite an advantage if it get's tough in life.
Maybe it helped that I tried any drug around when I was quite young and never liked anything enough to take the risk of addiction.
My wife tried to quit smoking many times. She managed to switch to vaping for two years. Then some stupid friend on a vacation trip talked her into smoking just a few cigarettes, because she pretended to dislike the nice, fruity smell of her vape. Now she is addicted to cigarettes worse than ever before, even getting up at night to refill her nicotine level. She is coughing like a senior coal mine worker and has problems climbing stairs. A little bit early at 57 years.
For some reason I did exactly as he told me, it was my best birthday gift when I smoked my last cigarette. I simply quit and never looked back. Surprisingly a part of my social environment reacted quite negative to me silently stop drinking and later suddenly not smoking any more. Just because many of them had developed such an addiction to both and could simply not switch it off like me. Something I had not realized before. Instead of seeing this as a good example for them selves, they maybe felt it as proof of their own weakness. I went through some hard times and think I would not have made it drinking and smoking. Being able to work for more hours a day than others and being permanentely sober is quite an advantage if it get's tough in life.
Maybe it helped that I tried any drug around when I was quite young and never liked anything enough to take the risk of addiction.
My wife tried to quit smoking many times. She managed to switch to vaping for two years. Then some stupid friend on a vacation trip talked her into smoking just a few cigarettes, because she pretended to dislike the nice, fruity smell of her vape. Now she is addicted to cigarettes worse than ever before, even getting up at night to refill her nicotine level. She is coughing like a senior coal mine worker and has problems climbing stairs. A little bit early at 57 years.
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When my Mum was diagnosed with lung cancer, the oncologist told me that drinking is increasingly being found to be worse than many thought for causing cancer and is a factor in many different cancers. I know this is well known, but he suggested it was going to become worse as more studies are done.
As a moderate drinker, I think of this a lot and realise I should stop. But geez it's enjoyable to have a couple! I no longer like having a bender though.
Edit: just realised this thread is a bit grim, isn't it!?
As a moderate drinker, I think of this a lot and realise I should stop. But geez it's enjoyable to have a couple! I no longer like having a bender though.
Edit: just realised this thread is a bit grim, isn't it!?
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