Don't try this at home

[Antti]

It was again time to do some human experiments. I’m a heavy smoker, and I wondered, what would happen if I tried to reduce my smoking, or even quit. Will I end up as a mental wreck or am I stronger than the Marlboro man™. The experiment ended yesterday, and it took almost a day to recover from nicotine deficit it created so that I’m able to write something down about my days of pain.

(Cigarette break)

My first idea was to listen myself and write down about how I feel and who I’m going to kill next. I’m so good at self-deception. I wasn’t even able to think clearly, which ended my diary prematurely. Another thing that kept me of writing was the numbness of my arms. How is it possible to write if you can’t feel your fingers? The experiment lasted for four long days and my memories from that period are somewhat misty.

Every smoker who also drinks coffee knows how those two are inseparable. I think he (or she) who invented addiction, used coffee and cigarettes as an example to show others the power of that great invention. No wonder a cup of coffee wakes up your cigarette instinct. So I wasn’t able to drink coffee and that caused me a terrible headache. I tried to cheat myself and drank tea instead. That didn’t help. My brain noticed the cheating attempt, and there I was, in a situation where I just wanted more and more coffee and cigarettes, if that was by any means possible.

(Cigarette break)

Now when the experiment is over, I try to stay away from places where I can’t smoke and look back at my life as a smoker. We have had so many joyful moments. We have seen many great things that otherwise would remain unseen. For example, we have seen, as far as I can recall, one and a half pair of boobs and one ass. Not bad. That’s one boob for every three years I have smoked. One thing that is important for a smoker to remember, is that girls like men who live on the edge, and a guy who looks death straight in the eye is the bravest man of them all. For those about to smoke, I salute You.

Setteragic ekoms ot nuf s’ti

[Humppaporo]

Yeah, some girls definitely do like guys living on the edge... But most girls despise men smelling like an old ash tray...

(coffee break)

I'd quit smoking a long time ago, but got a huge depression afterwards, didn't know that was a normal thing to happen..must be the loss of the pleasure of smoking

(coffee break)

after so many years I still miss smoking sometimes, but coffee ... who could live without it!

Keep up the experimental spirits(booze??)!

At the moment I'm trying to live without (sufficient) sleep, also not advisable, Don't try this at home...I get withdrawal symptoms like trembling, drinking extensive amounts of coffee, gazing and not knowing what I'm doing...

(coffee break)

Did I really register on this forum?!
_________________
Mene metsään, Mene vuorille, Mene kauas merelle, Anna yksinäisyyden hyväillä sinua, Kunnes ihosi on kyllin ohut, Niin ohut, Että sydämesi, Näkee sen läpi minut, Että minä se olin, Joka hyväilin, Hyväilen sinua, Mene, mene... T.T.

[Hannu]

Humppaporo, you are doing great! Up the irons!

Yes, the Netherlands is a familiar country, I've been to Amsterdam twice and visited Groeningen as well. I remember seen you on some message board and I thought you were from Germany.
_________________
Hopefully there's a bit of Jazz Odyssey in everything we play -Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap

[Blacklion]

Muahaha, insane, out of yer mind.. Normal.

Hmm, what we should experiment on next? How long you can make it without bleeding the lizard? Without coffee drinking I could manage to survive a day maybe, but with coffee I don't need to count the hours with toes too.
One interesting experiment would be that how many desibels you could create while bleeding the lizard. My ex-neighbour from upstairs would be good on that, sometimes it felt like he was peeing from the third floor to a toilet bowl on second floor.
_________________
Rässiä.

[Humppaporo]

[Nexus6]

Another coffee addicted comes here to explain her pains I really miss one morning without coffee and it's too hard for me to manage the first hours of the day when I have not access to my caffein dose. I haven't tried to abandon coffee. I don't really want because I love it.

But even harder than be addicted to caffein is to be allergic to lactose. Many things are those which you can't eat or drink, not pizza and no pasta with cheese, not the normal and cheapest milk. No! You have to die drinking the 2€ soja milk (after two months is not that bad but at the beginning... well is better not to talk about that hard experience ) and when you go to have lunch you must see how others eat fantastic pizzas full of cheese while you are there raging with anger looking at them almost wishing the pizza would hurt their stomachs.

And then after being coffee addicted and allergic to lactose I couldn't be anything else than hyperactive inclined to suffer some nights of insomnia...haha

Have a nice day

_________________
Sing for me...
to lift above in all these fallen walls,
and bleed for me
in the deepest release.

[Blacklion]

There is (at least in Finland) this "Laktoositon maitojuoma) Eh, lactoseless milk drink? Something like that anyways. As the name says, there's no lactose on it, and at least the fatless version tastes just like ordinary milk. I guess you could drink that? It's not as cheap as normal milk but probably cheaper than soya stuff... I can tell you it's good, I drink a liter of it in school ( I drink a liter because my hobby, bodyduilding.. Milk is an easy way to gain proteine in school).

Sleep is just a substitute to coffee!
_________________
Rässiä.

[Humppaporo]

[Nexus6]

[Blacklion]

By the way, any music addicts here?

Yesterday I realised that I'm a music addict. I wanted to test if I'm more relaxed in the evening if I don't listen to music before I go to sleep Should fall asleep faster.

NOT!

All that happened was that I got song playing in my mind all the evening. Like a jukebox inside your mind. Except that there was only Shade Empire in the music selection.
_________________
Rässiä.

[Humppaporo]

I know the feeling, unfortunately the song playing in my head is often one I don't like, but just cannot get that annoying song out, 'can't get you out of my head"

Sometimes I hear a favorite song all night in my sleep.

Music addict, sure, could not live without! *takes another cup of coffee* *big grin*
_________________
Mene metsään, Mene vuorille, Mene kauas merelle, Anna yksinäisyyden hyväillä sinua, Kunnes ihosi on kyllin ohut, Niin ohut, Että sydämesi, Näkee sen läpi minut, Että minä se olin, Joka hyväilin, Hyväilen sinua, Mene, mene... T.T.

[Ilkka]

I have been three weeks without smoking now.All it seem to take is some mild depression,anxiousness, sweating, sleep disorder etc. but on the other hand it kind of feels very good and gets easier every day. All good smells better and all shit smells even worse.
Test your limits and DO try this at home; deliberately quit during the stressiest period of your life and after that you`ll get over anything.
Ipe
_________________
Ookko nähny Hoho?

[Humppaporo]

That was the way I did it too. I quitted smoking long ago, though I never got totally rid of the craving, even after many years every now and then I feel the longing to a sigarette.

I also stopped in a stressfull period and got a severe depression. No-one told me that this could happen and that it was one of the side effects of quitting smoking.

I agree though, everything smells better and you don't need to worry that much anymore about your own and others health.

A big advantage was for me that I hardly had colds and coughing anymore. When I smoked it took me weeks to get over a cold, and now I hardly get any and if so it's over in a few days. So singing and breathing is more easy...
_________________
Mene metsään, Mene vuorille, Mene kauas merelle, Anna yksinäisyyden hyväillä sinua, Kunnes ihosi on kyllin ohut, Niin ohut, Että sydämesi, Näkee sen läpi minut, Että minä se olin, Joka hyväilin, Hyväilen sinua, Mene, mene... T.T.

[Humppaporo]

@Ilkka: you still don't smoke anymore??
Then you are stronger than me. When i was in Finland last summer, i had such a great holiday feeling that i started again, and although i planned to quit right after holidays... hetkinen, menen röökille.. (haven't stopped again ).

Some new addictions/problems, and please don't try this also: DON'T GO TO FINLAND! I suffer from Finland-disease, since i have been there i want to go back all the time, just miss this beautiful country and it's people.
Another addiction is the Finnish language. When you start to learn that, you have to face many depressions, but also extatic feelings (because you think you understand) followed by deep desperation ( in moments that you realize you don't). Still it is a beautiful language, though for us Dutchies, who have a very varied but almost ruleless language, very hard to learn. It also eats time.

I am going for some (more) coffee now, absolutely not addicted to that, but i just have no clue how to survive without it!
_________________
Mene metsään, Mene vuorille, Mene kauas merelle, Anna yksinäisyyden hyväillä sinua, Kunnes ihosi on kyllin ohut, Niin ohut, Että sydämesi, Näkee sen läpi minut, Että minä se olin, Joka hyväilin, Hyväilen sinua, Mene, mene... T.T.