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Skriven 2013-10-25 13:26:28 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 10981 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
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Hi Mark!

>> worse, so that's no fun either. I just keep cutting down as much as
>> I can and stop habits where I just sit there and smoke.. (Keeping
>> cigs around when I'm programming, etc.).

>i remember those days... i don't smoke inside so that fixed that... that's why
> when i get to a place where i need to think about things, i go out and have a
> smoke and many times talk to someone about other stuff completely away from
> coding... at some point, my mind comes up with a plan and i'm back in to the
> editor writing more code ;)

Yep, there is great benefit in staying away from code now and again especially
when you're up against some problem that hiding from you <g>

>> When I did it before cold-turkey, I was eating aspirin like M&M's
>> (well, within reason <g>).

> asprin? headaches? i substituted iced tea when i quit one time... yeah, the

Aspirin generally helps with "stuff" because it reduces inflammation .. which
is what MS is all about.. inflammation of the nerve endings so then messages to
the brain can't get through (move this, lift that haha)

>caffiene hit was a real doozy... almost as bad as what i used to get when i wa
>drinking so much coffee back in the day... at least then (and now) i'm drinkin
>several glasses of fluid a day instead of wasting a 20oz soda by only drinking
> maybe 1/4th to 1/2 before it is hot and throwing it out...

Ha, no problem with caffeine here :)  I still drink several cups of coffee a
day.. usually about 4 or 5.. Ron is worse (? <vbg>) than I am in that respect..
there have been days, I'll make a pot of coffee only to go get a cup later and
it's GONE already hahaha.. no heavy duty programming going on here Lol  We
probably should have invested in coffee bean companies <G>

>> period of time... nicoderm cq has you start at a level roughly equal
>> to your

>> Ha.. nicoderm was a trip.. I tried that years ago.. sent my legs in
>> spastic city.. seriously, it did.  When that happens, your legs
>> feel like lead, literally.

> yeah! i've had that as well as lucid dreams... then i switched to the next

Yep, I remember the crazy dreams :)

>lower dosage and things were better... i never did get to complete the nicoder
> program because of my appendix... and the hospital wouldn't let me use my
> nicoderm patches... instead they insisted on their own at $50 a patch(!!)...
> two weeks of nicoderm was only $45US... about the same cost as cigs for the
> quantity i was smoking at the time... i started nicoderm with their 14mg
>patches but the hospital thought it better to give me the 21mg ones... needles
> to say, when i got out of the hospital, i was more addicted to nicotine :/

I remember Jim Morrison (The Doors) making a really bad joke about the cigs I
smoke.. True.. he was at some concert and he yelled out to the crowd for
someone to throw him a cig.. so someone threw him a True cig.. He looked at it
and said, "damn, those things are like smoking TAMPAX!  Gimme a real cig!" Lol

Now I know the industry or the gov't says all low-nicotene cigs are the same,
but I can't smoke ones like marlboro's or whatever.. they also send my body
into a tizzy <g>.

>> yeah, i should quit, too... especially after 40+ years... i am, however,

>> Yeah, it's about 40+ years for me as well.. geez.

> stop that! couting, that is ;)

hahaha realy :) :)

>> outside, it is time for one and i choose to use them as a means of taking a
>> break to contemplate coding problems, code flows, and to mull over
>> different
>> methods of doing something and what each offers and removes...

>> hehe.. interesting.. I can't smoke outside.. Can't in that, if I'm
>> outside, there's no desire to smoke at all.  I guess that's why I
>> love summer and working out in the garden :)

> sounds like you should move your coding stuff outside then ;) O:) :lol:

haha yeah.. I have some tools on my tablet but not as much as on my linux box..
ah, one of these days <g>

Take care,
Janis

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