From: Jeff Taylor (jeff@ultraviolet.com)
Date: Fri Apr 09 1999 - 18:42:08 MDT
Interestingly enough, when I stopped smoking, I did so Cold Turkey.
How is it that some people can, and some can't? I don't see any reason why
I'd be any less addicted than anyone else. Perhaps, I hadn't been smoking
long enough? I was smoking for nearly three years before tapering off and
eventually stopping completely. (winding down over about 1 month)
The trick I used was visualization. I simply saw them as something
disgusting, a habit which was more like eating shit, than jello. So I
stopped.
Jeff Taylor
-- "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pine ---------- >From: "Nick Bostrom" <bostrom@ndirect.co.uk> >To: extropians@extropy.com >Subject: Re: Caffeine withdrawal advice (was Re: Is Medicine Healthy? add >Date: Fri, Apr 9, 1999, 5:02 PM > > Anders wrote: > >> While I agree in general, I wonder how to compare them - nicotine >> affects attention, caffeine wakefullness and alertness, cholinergic >> stuff memory, all have different effects. However, caffeine is >> remarkably non-toxic and easily accessible. > > Do you use nicotine or cholinergics yourself? Is there any > cholinergic that you would recommend? Deprenyl? > > I use nicotine chewing gum or microtabs, though only when I do > difficult intellectual work. That way, if I were to become addicted, > I would simultaneously become addicted to hard thinking -- not such a > bad thing! I haven't tried any cholinergic yet. As for caffeine, I > try it periodically, but I haven't figured out whether the net > effect is beneficial for me. It seems to affect me differently on > different occasions. > > Are there any other chemical substances or psychological techniques > that you find particularly useful? > > > Nick Bostrom > http://www.hedweb.com/nickb n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk > Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method > London School of Economics >
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