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Wellness Wednesday for August 21, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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If you are going to use nicotine why not just use losanges? I not really endorsing it but surely is cheaper than zyn..,

probably cheaper yeah I'll look into em

Paradoxically, nicotine products designed for quitting nicotine are often significantly more expensive than regular nicotine products unless your insurance or employer or whoever is subsidizing them. I assume this has to do with FDA approval overhead.

They also tend to be designed to have a somewhat unpleasant user experience, with a very slow absorption rate. The idea is to give you just enough nicotine to avoid cravings, but not enough to give you a buzz.

Oh I didn’t realize that! I guess I’m just on a low enough dosage (I use the 1 mg habitrol losanges he’s) not to notice.

Not enough nicotine in those, and in reality they are obscenely expensive compared to recreational products in my area, anyways.