Sorry I didn’t mean you specifically. It was a general ‘you’

I hope it’s not a thing, that’s nasty. If you believe going barefoot is detoxifying I can kinda understand, like you do you, but on city streets? 🤢

Even if that’s how detoxifying actually worked, you’d still be doing the opposite on a sidewalk.

You should avoid Taco Bell…

I put lentils in my vegetarian chili. Do chilli however you like - I prefer a bean blend over straight kidney beans- and just boil a pot of lentils and use them in place of the ground beef if your doing a quick chili. I would think you wouldn’t want them pre cooked if you’re doing a slow cook chili.

Sorry I was joking. It didn’t land.

There are plenty of self improvement videos.

In Canada we are dealing with a housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, and a climate crisis (we still have wildfires burning in January) on top of alt-righters trying to reverse all progress that we’ve made.

So very similar to America- not quite as dramatic. Though Albertabama has been quiet for a while so I expect the Premier to do something stupid soon.

That’s how I feel about working in office lol. I’m busting my ass trying to get more education so I can change position, but my office wants me to be admin forever, and adding that to the feeling like I shouldn’t even be there is pointing me in the WFH direction.

Mine is still so bad that my next goal is to move in to a work from home position.

This is what bothers me too, like physical trauma is supposed to leave no trace once the doctor says your fine or whatever. My husband has vestibular dysfunction after a couple nasty concussions and it can seriously impact his ability to even get out of bed and makes him vomit a lot, and that’s a pretty mild post concussion ailment.

That’s a pretty rare side effect. Everyone should talk to their doctor or pharmacist before starting any medication.

I would take that over to the thrift store and buy as many coats as I could get, or you could take it to a warming shelter and let them use as they need.

Thank you for being a kind human, I only wish I had the funds to do the same before this cold snap hit.

I also used the medication. For me the craving eventually turned in to disgust. I wasn’t confident that I wasn’t going to smoke again for about 2 years, but your brain doesn’t stop changing just because you’ve stopped the pills. Simply not having the addiction speak for you anymore is allowing your brain to change. I can’t even stand the smell now, I’ve turned in to my grandpa lol.

It will be 5 years for me soon, I’ve got a bit of a head start, but here’s hoping you stop craving too. Congratulations and good luck!

I still dream about smoking sometimes. At first I was worried that it was my own weakness and that I was going to back to smoking. Now I also get mad at myself for the dreams because I don’t even want a cigarette, why the fuck does my brain keep putting them in my dreams? I swear I can still smell them in my dreams and it’s gross lol. I hope that will go away one day too.

Also, I would like to double down on your encouragement. Quit! Please quit as soon as physically possible. You and everyone around you will be glad you did. There are so many paths available now. If you are in Canada you might be able to get free help if you talk to a pharmacist. I didn’t pay anything for my Champex because the government wants us to quit too. I didn’t think that I could do it either- I’m the weakest motherfucker you could dream of and here I am, cigarette free since 2019.

Once I decided I didn’t want to smoke cigarettes anymore medication made the path easy. My biggest problem was getting out of the mindset. I enjoy the act of smoking and I convinced myself that things would be even worse if I quit cigarettes, that I’d get fat again and be unable to control my anxiety. I trapped myself hard and I couldn’t see it because the addiction spoke for me.

I had “tried” to quit several times before, but they were half assed attempts because I didn’t really want to quit. I even convinced myself that the Champex would give me nightmares and make my mental illness worse ( it did not).

I wholeheartedly recommend that anyone who needs to quit, but can’t, go on the Champex ( Chantix in the US). It worked so well I didn’t even go through the whole recommended cycle of pills and have not gone back to smoking after almost 5 years. It made me nauseous while I was on them and that really changed how my brain sees cigarettes. I thought at first I might relapse, but the smell of cigarettes is disgusting to me now.

Now, I can’t speak to how well it dealt with the physical habit side of it, because I do still smoke pot, but by god I will never willingly put tobacco in my body again. I think it was the start of my self improvement, though I didn’t know it back then.

That word always sounded like it was rather self explanatory so I never looked it up before. I never realized it was specifically the disestablishment of the Church of England.

As someone who was baptized Anglican, I am 100% an Antidisestablishmentarian.

You can use gift cards for your Netflix subscription, I did that until I got it wrapped in to my internet package.

I’m too Canadian for this, sorry!

Valid criticism.

I know, but I had to be as stereotypical as possible.