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Re:I built a lay-down desk by bduerst on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:52PM (#24690758)
We used to joke that smokers have great eyes because they take regular screen breaks to go outside and stare at the horizon.
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Re:I built a lay-down desk by zwayhowder on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:17PM (#24691539)
Anecdotaly I didn't get proscribed reading glasses until a year or two after I quite smoking...

Seriously though, one thing I did find was when I quit smoking my ability to solve complex problems at work went down for a while. I was no longer taking a forced 10 minute break every 60-90 minutes that let my brain reset. (Or explaining my problem out loud to another filthy smoker skulking around the back of the building :D )

Fortunately for me it was about the same time that the Pomodoro technique was featured on Lifehacker and I implemented a similar system to replace the regular nicotine craving induced breaks.

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Re:I built a lay-down desk by plutonic on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:59PM (#24692510)
Nicotine is also an acetylcholinergic stimulant, meaning it aids in the quickness of thought [0]. By removing this from your stack you probably depressed your acetylcholine for a while, making you less able to think clearly.

It might also be the lack of breaks too, but who knows.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty134

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Re:I built a lay-down desk by runarberg on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:22PM (#24694444)
My old office had a dart board in the lounge. I think it was quite ingenious in that it forced the workers to focus their eyes differently from their screen time whenever they took a dart break.
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Re:I built a lay-down desk by timeinput on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:16AM (#24694633)
In some parts of the world cigarettes are called darts. I snickered reading your reply because of it.
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