Finally Quit Smoking!

"FUCK YOU IT'S EASY!"

Little Quote I picked up from my mom there when she quit smoking for the dozenth or so time. It really encapsulates what it takes to quit smoking. Came into work today feeling sick. It's definitely that jonesing body needs nicotine nausea.

So I was watching the end of the show Video Blog for one of my favorite shows Battlestar Galactica. The prop master gets her turn and shows off the cigarettes they've been using in the show. Nicotine Free HoneyRose Cigarettes! My jaw hit the floor. Nicotine Free?!? Holy Shamolies that's awesome! That has to be the best stop[ smoking tool out there! Why'd I just hear about it now?! So I went looking for them at every herbal suppliment and health food stores I could find. But no luck, apparently they're not sold in the US. Tabacco companies probobly made them illigal by passing a law with the political vending machine in Washington. Anyway once I figured that out I immediately find their website http://www.honeyrose.co.uk/ and put in an order. Says 6-8 weeks for delivery, and they're not kidding. Mine arrived in 8 weeks to the day. I ordered an assortment of everything, Flavored, normal, ginseng, ect. Got about a 2 week supply.

At first it was a little weird I was definitely jonesing with Nicotine fits while smoking. Then on day three I got busy doing some stuff and started chain smoking em because I was jonesing for nicotine. I was chain smoking the normal ones most of the day then I started chain smoking with the ginseng variety, made me SICK. Not quite to the point of puking but definitely nauseated and I noticed I started to cringe when I reached for another one. I thought to myself HOLY CRAP it's working! I need to keep chain smoking these ginseng cigs! I made sure after that if I reached for a cigarette it was ginseng. After stopping chain smoking them the nausea went away but I still cringed for 2 days after that every time I reached for a smoke. Problem was the nicotine fits where just a little stronger than the cringing.

Then I ran out of the ginseng cigarettes the next day and was left with the flavored and foofy cigarettes. Oh well, I figured I'd just nurse them and ween myself off them. It's been 4 weeks now, I'm still nicotine free and haven't had any smokes at the office for 2 weeks and haven't smoked at home or anywhere else in 2 days. I've still got a pack of Honeyrose at the office and here at home. Mostly it's so I can tell myself I don't need it anymore. Makes me feel safe I guess that if I do get an urge I've got the nicotine free packs around still.

If anyone tries this in the future. Get the ginseng and make yourself sick, chain smoke 'em. I honestly think it'll make ya quit easier.

This Steroid Documentary Looks interesting

It's called Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
http://biggerstrongerfastermovie.com/



I'll post a review sometime this week.

EDIT 7/5/09
Finally got to finish watching this. I have to admit it was pretty damned good. The bit noting the amount of time the US Government spent debating steroids in baseball vs debating the freaking war in Iraq and other places was a little disturbing. Not to mention the raw ignorance of the Government on the Topic, they clearly don't know what they're talking about and just fan the flames of ignorance to create a scandal over here, to keep us from looking over there. They're debating this over wars and they don't even understand the subject matter. Heh.

Now that I think about it, it's pretty much the same for the war on drugs, it's all slight of hand. Don't look over here, ohhh look at that.

My take on Aliens

I was talking with a friend a few months ago and I had an interesting thought about the Aliens called the Grey and how Aliens tend to be "Humanoid." It's arrogant to belive that aliens would be in any way humanoid. There's no real advantage to the form over others but I realized there is one possibility that makes perfect sense. The Grey's are not aliens at all, they're evolved humans. Imagaine a day in 10 million years humans have evolved to the point that time and space travel are common place. What would Humans look like that far in the future?

And a high school history field trip to early humanity accidentally crashes in Roswell New Mexico...

I think that Hypothesis is far more likely than the Grey being of alien origin should they actually exist.

D&D PSA's

These are oldies but goodies. Freaking hilarious.

This one is the classic with the Hex Blade Athene who got cursed and turned into a chick and is now Athena then there is Tordek on dwarven culture! Classic stuff.



This one... Invisible freaking Christopher Walken!

Finally got around to watching the TV series Jericho

My Buddy Jason tried to get me to watch it a while back but I didn't want to just jump in the middle of the show and wanted to watch it from the beginning since it sounded pretty good. Now that I've got NetFlix streaming video I can watch the whole damned series online! It's friggin awesome I'm gonna have to get the boxed set of this show now. I heard that my old favorite show the new Battlestar Galactica had some stiff competition but I nevr tore away from BSG to watch Jericho. I have a feeling though that Jericho will have the same problem that BSG suffered from. The series won't live up to the pilot episode with all those nukes putting the fear of god in ya.

UPDATE: 06/13/09
I finished watching the series, I gotta admit I was surprised it really came across like it wasn't cut early but instead they ended it on their terms instead of dragging it out because they realized it would probably suck if they dragged it on longer than the meat of the main storyline allows.

Now that's Change

I love this, it's just got awesome written all over it.



No differant than voting for Obama, except people really do believe the Obama Fantasy. Kinda like the Bush Fantasy that he kept us safe.

More Diabetes thoughts

Just made an observation about diabetes that got me thinking. When I was religiously on the protein diet my sugars were nicely under control. But I had to give it up be cause I was crapping 10lb bricks and I'd rather not do that anymore.

I think the theory behind why it works is wrong. It's got to do with why most 3rd world countries don't have diabetes epidemics. They don't get our food. I'm starting to think the cause of diabetes is in the preservatives we add to our food. The meats I was eating on the protein diet don't have the same preservatives as all the rest. Might be something too that.

EDIT: 05-15-09 I was talking with Ben one of the Foreman at the shop I work at. And talked to him about the fact that he's lost about 50lbs or so in the last six months. He said he'd be dieting and all to get his diabetes under control but wasn't having any luck. He Told me that he finally quit sodas and coffee, bam he started slowly and surely dropping pounds and his blood sugars leveled out. Can't just be the caffeine though it's got the be some of the chemicals they put in it. When I was on the protein diet I only drink diet sodas and those had caffeine so that's not it as far as I'm concerned.