Today marks nine months free from tobacco for me. I’m excited because this is the longest I’ve gone without any tobacco since I started smoking in 2006. I was a smoker for 17 years until my lung collapsed and I got my wake-up call. I sincerely hope those of you struggling don’t need to be rattled so hard.
I thought it might be nice to provide a thread where people can post about their wins against whatever their struggles are. Too often our mental wellbeing gets ignored and we shrug it off, but it’s important to celebrate our wins.
Each day I have to decide between Alcohol or Valium.
/ I hold back on what my mind thinks about typing openly.
Tobacco I sometimes use when if I find myself sitting in the beer garden at the pub to fit a n to the normal conversation here.
I don’t like to draw back on those times and don’t think about becoming hooked.
It’s much easier to decide on Alcohol when being socially acceptable in conversations than it is to be sitting at a table and taking, fitting into a normal conversation than it is to be zoned out on the other.
//to bring to light about the past few weeks about my Eve Online activities had almost completely dropped off due to trying to go dry in July.
Zoned out me is the other option which is no fun.
Put aside that perhaps other Capsuleers prefer an absence of a forum Frostpacker?
Been smoking since age 9; now in my 60s. Gave up for 4 years, but started again after being over-confident that ‘one little ciggy’ wouldn’t lead to ‘shedloads of little ciggies’. It did, alas.
I’m trying again (but not hard enough!). I wish the OP well in his journey, and the same to all the others who, through no fault of their own, fall prey to the snares of addiction.
I wish you well in your own attempts! I made the same mistake, and even now I find myself occasionally tempted. “One couldn’t hurt, could it?” Funny how that was the exact same logic 11-year old Von used to satisfy his curiosity. Now that I think back on it–I had forgotten!–it was the one that set the hook. Now I’m done playing around; I won’t even tolerate being around it.
I wholeheartedly believe in second, and third, and endless chances. For as long as you’re breathing, you’ve got a chance. I really hope and pray you’ll find success in quitting, friend, or at least minimizing your habit. I know how hard it is.
Just imagine someone contracting you 666 units of that item in-game.
Also imagine a Catalyst or Talos filled with Tobacco Launchers hunting you all over New Eden.
By the way I am sure Aiko is more than willing to help a fellow capsuleer out in their struggle: Every time you light a cigar in real-life a miner will die in-game to Aiko(and crew)'s neutron blasters (and other class weaponry).
(Hopefully you are not the anti-carebear type as then this wouldn’t be an incentive. )
One would hope, Uriel, that miners will die, regardless. Yes, they’ll be released - temporarily - from the drudgery of cycling lasers. I’m compassionate like that
when I got my eyes zapped, but I was like, “moar Valium!”
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