I quit smoking by chewing that expensive nicotine gum. Then I was addicted to that for 3 more years. I finally quit the gum when covid got us all locked down to our homes so I could finally not have to face anyone while I went through the emotional rollercoaster that is breaking an addiction.
From what I understand after not going to any AA or NA shit, is that a lot of people find a framework for endurance when they hand responsibility for everything over to a “higher power” that has more control over everything than they will ever hope to have over themselves. From there I guess it’s just a few cognitive re-wirings away from “I don’t need this, I don’t want this, and I have a reason to trust that my suffering will end and that things will get better” (the god part constituting that “reason” ironic when it is in fact an inversion of reason, ie faith. But the mind doesn’t really know the difference.)
I think Grimes here is toying with becoming some sort of Christian and is using the vape thing as an excuse to explain it to her fanbase. Lotta weirdos doin tradcath or return to roots larp shit lately, including the rich.
Congrats on beating nicotine. I too stopped a 14-year smoking habit during COVID. I still get a craving randomly out of the blue but I just let it pass over and through me. God not involved.
congrats to you too!
it was always an idea i kicked around… do i use up all my vacation time to just stay home and hide in a hole for 2 weeks and pray that is enough time to stop from wanting to strangle somebody while i wean off, or do i just continue to chew the gum and rot my face?
luckily it worked out in the weirdest of ways
I quit nicotine after a layoff while stuck at home, realizing nicotine was a way of coping with work and/or quitting would have made me go through a phase of being weird and unbearable by office standards.
Amazing how not having a tolerate an office means I no longer develop harmful addictions.
I quit smoking by chewing that expensive nicotine gum. Then I was addicted to that for 3 more years. I finally quit the gum when covid got us all locked down to our homes so I could finally not have to face anyone while I went through the emotional rollercoaster that is breaking an addiction.
god did not help one bit.
Maybe not, but that really has nothing to do with the fact that lots of people find the strength to overcome addiction through faith.
i fail to see how going to church is going to get anyone off of nicotine, but if it works more power to anyone
Yeah I don’t think it matters if it makes sense to you, you don’t have to have an opinion on it
yeah, i don’t really care about your opinion on it either, and never really asked for it in the first place
From what I understand after not going to any AA or NA shit, is that a lot of people find a framework for endurance when they hand responsibility for everything over to a “higher power” that has more control over everything than they will ever hope to have over themselves. From there I guess it’s just a few cognitive re-wirings away from “I don’t need this, I don’t want this, and I have a reason to trust that my suffering will end and that things will get better” (the god part constituting that “reason” ironic when it is in fact an inversion of reason, ie faith. But the mind doesn’t really know the difference.)
I think Grimes here is toying with becoming some sort of Christian and is using the vape thing as an excuse to explain it to her fanbase. Lotta weirdos doin tradcath or return to roots larp shit lately, including the rich.
tbh all of that’s just to get people in the door, the core of twelve step is peer support.
turns out when you help other people work out their addiction problems it’s a powerful disincentive to indulge your own addiction, who knew
Congrats on beating nicotine. I too stopped a 14-year smoking habit during COVID. I still get a craving randomly out of the blue but I just let it pass over and through me. God not involved.
congrats to you too!
it was always an idea i kicked around… do i use up all my vacation time to just stay home and hide in a hole for 2 weeks and pray that is enough time to stop from wanting to strangle somebody while i wean off, or do i just continue to chew the gum and rot my face?
luckily it worked out in the weirdest of ways
I quit nicotine after a layoff while stuck at home, realizing nicotine was a way of coping with work and/or quitting would have made me go through a phase of being weird and unbearable by office standards.
Amazing how not having a tolerate an office means I no longer develop harmful addictions.