NyticusWhat long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you finally parted from?
What long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you...
0xteroSmoking.
Smoked a pack a day for 14 years. Been smoke free for over 20 years now.
Libra00Drinking soda. I drank it pretty much to the exclusion of all else for decades, it helped ruin my teeth and probably contributed to my developing diabetes at age 50. How it happened was kinda weird, one day I just felt like drinking something else, got some sweet tea at a restaurant or something, and it tasted great without being syrupy or too sweet and just perfectly hit the spot. That day I bought a tea maker and by the end of the week I poured out what was left of my soda stash and never looked back. Once in a great while I’ll have a craving for Barq’s root beer or something, but it’s all soooo gassy and syrupy.
Also quit smoking 2 years ago.
Gosh, I’m a little jealous. My soda addiction has got a right hold on me. Specifically Barq’s root beer lol. I’m trying to wean myself off slowly by cutting caffeine first and then hopefully transitioning to the less sugar sodas and then off soda entirely.
But hey, I’m happy for you, that’s excellent!
I wouldn’t really say I was addicted to soda, I just don’t like the taste of water and soda was kinda the only alternative that I liked until my body decided ‘nah fuck it, let’s do something different’ on me.
And yeah I drank mostly Mt Dew, so the super sugary/caffeine-loaded stuff. Blech. I can still drink it, but only in small quantities, vs where I was before, going through 4 2L bottles a week of the stuff.
Try making your own sweet drinks just boil up some water dissolve the amount of sugar you want and add sparkly water and lemon. You can make really good ice teas or lemonade like that. You’ll be consuming a lot less sugar. I love sweet drinks as well luckily I was raised in a pretty strict house where my parents usually refused to buy me sodas or they were a very special treat, hell when I was a kid even Orange juices or whatever was diluted with water.
absGeekNZWhen I was young and worked in a supermarket, I’d buy a 1.5l coke at the beginning of my shift, I’d finish it before I went home.
4 days a week, for years.
Stopped around 20 year ago, I still have it occasionally, but it is like a glass or two a month.
Yeah same, I’ll buy like a 6-pack of small bottles of Barq’s like once every few months maybe, and drink it over the course of a week or so, or I’ll have a coke with a meal at a restaurant or something.
Nowadays, I make a gallon of tea every couple days, I have a 40oz water bottle that I drink ~1.5-2.5 of a day.
Auto erotic asphyxiation. No more spider games for me!
Wait, no more blue-face blastoff? You stopped doing the strokey chokey? No more two-neck squeeze?
No absolutely none no funky spiderman ever again.
All jokes aside, good for you!
Masking; I dropped my facade in October and have been working on finding my true self.
davelEDIT: Multiple people asked me to clarify that OC may be speaking to neurodivergent/autistic masking rather than COVID masking.
Wearing a respirator (not a cloth/surgical mask) in public is my true self. The self who takes airborne diseases, my health, and more importantly the health of others seriously. The self who knows that COVID-19 & long COVID aren’t over and that measles is back thanks to anti-vaxxers and prohibitively expensive healthcare. The one who still follows Violet Blue’s weekly updates.
I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about medical masks, so this is honestly an inappropriate response.
Most likely OC is talking about surgical/medical masks, which are inadequate for COVID-19, though better than nothing.
No, they most likely aren’t. Since they’re explicitly talking about “dropping their facade” and “finding their true self”, they’re most likely talking about autistic masking - you know, the kind of masking where you put on a facade and not behave like your true self.
At best your comments are unrelated rants, at worst you’re coming off like a real jerk right now.
Oh, maybe, but you’d be surprised how many people I’ve heard speak in exactly the same terms w/r/t COVID masking.
Sure, but OC didn’t give any indication that’s the case. They shared something very personal and made themselves vulnerable. You chose to interpret it as a political message and responded in a very passive-aggressive way, instead of just asking. That’s a really shitty thing to do.
If it had occurred to me that that’s what they might be talking about, I would have asked or said nothing. I don’t know why you’re assuming bath faith.
Because I pointed this out, yet you doubled (and later tripled) down on your interpretation, and you still haven’t edited your initial comment.
Because (1) when you said, “I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about masks in the medical sense, so this is honestly a really inappropriate response,” it still hadn’t occurred to me that it might be about autistic masking and (2) I usually don’t edit my comments in cases like this where the downthread sufficiently clarifies.
I don’t see the problem with adding an edit to the top level comment to provide clarification
It’s a simple resolution to a simple misunderstanding
Dude, get the hell out of here. Stop turning everything political.
Everything is political. Public health and neurodiversity certainly are.
Me when gravity is political
LAW of gravity? If it’s not a law in the Constitution, I don’t respect it.
Floats away
Everything’s is political but not everything people say is intended to stir up a political debate, and honestly the internet is one of the worst places to actually have a political debate.
This isn’t what they’re talking about Davel… they’re finding themselves not anti masking ;)
gilaWeed. Had to quit for an extended family holiday. I’ve had t-breaks like that a dozen times or so over the past 20 years, but was otherwise smoking daily. When I got home last September, I smoked a couple of bowls I had left behind and then just… stopped.
I don’t really have much to say about it. I don’t feel significantly clearer-headed or motivated. No profound physiological impact. Same as when I took breaks from it, had super weird and vivid dreams for a short while after stopping.
I’ll partake when I’m offered a doobie at a party, but I probably won’t go back to my old habits.
I think the reason I stopped is because I started taking (non-stimulant) ADHD meds a couple years back and the increase in dopamine made me just not feel like it anymore.
I’m super ADHD. Don’t take meds. High functioning job. Weed causes severe groggyness and widens my focus beam too wide. I need a sharp focus cone. It makes me feel stupid for 2 or 3 days. Raises anxiety. Not much it does help. Lessens motivation. I actually can’t think if any positives.
It would previous help me to regulate my appetite, helping with my comorbid binge eating disorder. I could get dopamine from smoking weed that I’d otherwise get from food. Of course, I’d usually get it from both, but having a good time stoned was definitely a fun thing for me that’d reduce my general cravings for other stimulation. But the meds are more effective (and specifically kill appetite as a side effect)
That’s very odd, but makes sense everyone’s benefits and side effects are so individual. I find it to be personally the sterotypical type reaction. It seems to excite my nervous system that already seems overwhelmed nearly all the time.
oxjoxUsing an alarm to wake up. Actually, I got rid of all electronics in my bedroom aside from lights.
I had a coffee situation many years ago. I was having heart palpitations (skipping a beat) while sitting at rest and my doctor said the 20 ounces of coffee I drank was way too much. I have never believed him but I did cut back just in case. In recent years, I’ve observed that the more I get some regular amount of exercise in, those palpitations go away. I started going for walks and also noticed my at-rest heart rate drop noticeably. And, while few to begin with, anxiety attacks went away. I usually drink a 10 ounce cup of coffee in the morning - freshly ground, aeropress, black. A bit more on the weekends. Never past 10am.
The next issue I have regarding better sleep is breaking my habit of being enthralled with digital content. I read too much on my iPad at night. Been trying to read physical books and magazines more but the dopamine addiction is rough.
Additionally, I’ve been from trying to be more proactive and get shit done asap to leave more time for being bored. I believe boredom leaves time for creativity and leisure and better sleep. There’s just far too much to distract us from existing as calm and creative human beings today.
gi1242vim, fvwm and Debian after 10 years of use.
I found firenvim which allowed me to edit text boxes in Firefox using neovim. couldn’t do it with vim, so I switched. love it
I bought a new laptop with a 4k screen. had to have different scaling on my external monitor and laptop screen. fvwm wouldn’t handle it… switched to kde/plasma and arch.
not sure if this is the kind of habits u were looking for 😃
I also just switched to KDE/plasma on my Pop!_OS machine after historically using either its built-in GNOME, or before that I would use I guess Unity on Ubuntu. I’ve tried KDE in passing in the past but I’ve never fully appreciated its delighfulness before. The widgets, the configurability, the clipboard history!
I’ve been on a similar coffee journey. I used to drink it nonstop throughout the day, like 5-6 cups of black coffee most days. Then one day I was physically assaulted and chased by a drugged out guy at a train station (never take transit in Denver, it’s a total fucking shitshow). I thought I was going to get stabbed or killed that day and I guess that event caused some trauma because I started getting panic attacks shortly after. I realized that my panic attacks were more frequent and lasted longer on the days that I drank more coffee, so I quickly cut all caffeine out of my life. Now I’ve been without caffeinated coffee for over a year and don’t miss it at all, although I still enjoy a decaf espresso most days.
Same thing happened with weed. I used to love weed and smoked/vaped it pretty frequently, but started getting panic attacks from it around the same time so I cut it almost entirely out of my life. Every few months I’ll buy a pack of pre-rolls to enjoy, but it literally takes me like five days to finish a single joint because I smoke one tiny puff at a time to avoid panic attacks.
Honestly though, even if I didn’t deal with panic attacks, I’m probably better off having no caffeine and only a tiny amount of weed.
Celebrating my birthday
Not receiving gifts on other occasions where it’s usual
Unhealthy eating. I’m down 50 pounds and my liver and kidneys are doing much better.
Diuretic not laxative.
Alcohol. After smoking and obesity it’s the third highest cause of cancer. I have every reason to live a long and healthy life. Why jeopardize that?
I gave up coffee recently too, stopped about halfway through March and I don’t really miss it at all. It was playing havoc with my digestion and energy levels.
I replaced the ritual with making cups of tea which has really helped, granted it did take me a little while to fully engage with it like I did coffee but it’s taken away missing the “ceremony” for me.
My skins cleared up, my bowels are regular again for the first time in what feels like forever and I’m sleeping so much better too. I hope it goes much the same for you pal!