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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by koube on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:14PM (#28611197)
Want to add to the testimonials of people that this absolutely didn't work for. For me this was just an excuse to open another pack of Juul pods, "oh this time I'll wait longer between puffs, I'll be puffing less and less this time until I'm not addicted". I would open pod after pod, pack after pack, every time thinking this exact thought. The only thing that worked for me is switching off juuls to some other brand where I could mix my own liquid and titrate down.

I would also be very interested in the percentage of people for whom deferring a cigarette for five minutes is easy. Maybe if you were waiting five minutes for a smoke buddy.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by Aeolun on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:50PM (#28612947)
> I would also be very interested in the percentage of people for whom deferring a cigarette for five minutes is easy.

I would be too. But I can’t imagine it’s very low. It’s like holding your pee for 5 minutes, uncomfortable, but eminently doable as long as you know you’ll find a toilet soon.

I think the problem is with knowing that those 5 minutes are supposed to mean deferring the smoking forever.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by dmurray on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:46AM (#28614574)
> It’s like holding your pee for 5 minutes, uncomfortable, but eminently doable as long as you know you’ll find a toilet soon.

Does it get worse with time? The first five minutes might just be uncomfortable for holding your pee, but the discomfort rises until by the tenth or twentieth it may be physically impossible.

In my (non-smoker's) understanding, withdrawal symptoms/cravings also increase with time between cigarettes, at least at first. Maybe not as strongly?

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by hallway_monitor on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:50AM (#28616316)
I mean, it's doing something you love, that you get to do all the time. Knowing you could do it but choosing not to...yes it's uncomfortable but you eventually get to a point where you forget you were ever a smoker. Maybe some people have "symptoms" but I believe it's psychosomatic.
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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by kibbleble on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:43AM (#28613677)
I think there was a study that showed psychopaths don't get addicted to drugs. Something something brain reward centers something. Or maybe it's anecdotal, a drug dealer's one customer who's "like a machine" and can quit whenever he wants.
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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by eurasiantiger on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:12AM (#28613546)
It is likely Juul pods contain monoamine oxidase inhibitors just like natural tobacco. They could even have been added to the mix.

Big tobacco knows, but they won’t tell you.

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