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Giftofdeprivation said: I'm thinking of buckling down health- and occupation-wise soon myself. Mind if I ask how old you are and what motivated you to do this? Congrats, and thanks for posting your successes!
this dude's a FUCKing: 
I'll be 26 a week from tomorrow. I've been using drugs for 10 years. Started off with weed, and almost immediately started smoking all day, every day. My using pattern involved constantly switching what I used, so I never got physically addicted to anything, fortunately. I did a lot pills, especially xanax when I was younger and oxycontin when I was older. I drank a lot of vodka. I did A LOT of shrooms and synthetic psychedelics. Towards the end, I was using Robitussin 3-4 times a week. I have probably used DXM over 300 times. I eventually started having bad experiences when I used it, and would wind up in the hospital. In March, I overdosed on DXM and went to the hospital and was told- as I was tripping face- that they were doing blood tests because they thought I might be suffering acute kidney/liver failure. I was terrified. Addiction is a brain disease once it takes hold, and I got tired of being an automaton, a slave to my limbic system. I got help and went to rehab. The rest is history.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22101755 - 08/17/15 07:39 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Congrats morrow.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: sun_spots] 2
#22101768 - 08/17/15 07:44 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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And I didn't really decide to quit smoking. I was in rehab and then one day I was just looking at my cigarette and I thought to myself, this is fucking disgusting. And I threw it out, and lost the desire to smoke. Can't explain it. I have been doing what they tell me to do in AA, turning my will and life over to God, even though I have my doubts about the existence of such a thing, but so far the effect has been obvious. Shortly after I got out of rehab I realized that my body image was very distorted, that I was about 50 pounds overweight, and needed to do something. I also began to be able to feel again, and with that, I started to have compassion not only for people, but for all sentient beings. That led to my decision to cut out most meats.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22101770 - 08/17/15 07:44 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: 110 days no cigarettes
3 months pescatarian
1 month no dairy
Have lost 38 pounds from my max weight. My skin is clear. I have a job that I enjoy, a living situation I like, a clear head, and I am saving money for the first time in my life.
Good for you. In your honor I am smoking two unfiltered Lucky Strikes at the same time while typing this. (I am not joking either. i buy them online because they are the only cigarette not made for communists)
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: SteveRogers]
#22101773 - 08/17/15 07:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have smoked those before.
I do still vape. I enjoy it a lot more.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22101905 - 08/17/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: 110 days no cigarettes
3 months pescatarian
1 month no dairy
Have lost 38 pounds from my max weight. My skin is clear. I have a job that I enjoy, a living situation I like, a clear head, and I am saving money for the first time in my life.
Stay strong 
Two days no cigarettes 
What's with the no dairy?
Uh if I lose anymore I probably die x'D
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: Beanhead] 2
#22101940 - 08/17/15 09:07 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dairy involves cows living a life of poverty and suffering. It is also unnatural to drink milk after infancy. Humans are the only animals that do it. Milk is also filled with hormones. My skin has cleared up tremendously since eliminating dairy and processed sugar.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22102030 - 08/17/15 09:41 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fish feel pain. Vegetables emmit chemicals under stress.
You are a bad person.

Raw unprocessed milk straight from the tit, I love farms
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: Beanhead]
#22102167 - 08/17/15 10:18 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9797948/Fish-cannot-feel-pain-say-scientists.html
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However, the latest research concluded that the mere presence of the receptors did not mean the animals felt pain, but only triggered a unconscious reaction to the threat.
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The new research also referred to a study done on fish which were caught with a hook and then released. The fish resumed feeding and normal activity immediately or within minutes and went on to show good long-term survival, which indicated they had not experienced pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_fish
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"Pain is predicated on awareness. The key issue is the distinction between nociception and pain. A person who is anaesthetised in an operating theatre will still respond physically to an external stimulus, but he or she will not feel pain."
https://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/why-fish-likely-dont-feel-pain/
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Taken together, if the signal is strong enough and if sufficient information is transferred and integrated, then the feeling of pain emerges (at present, how this occurs remains a mystery).
In summary, to the best of our knowledge, for any vertebrate nervous system to feel pain it must be capable of transferring and integrating a certain level of neural information. I contend that such a nervous system must have, at least, the following organizational principles:
1. An attentional system to amplify neural information;
2. Distinct topographical coding of different qualities of somatosensory information;
3. The integration of different somatosensory information both between modalities (e.g., touch and pain) and within a single modality (sharp versus dull pain);
4. Higher-level integration of noxious signaling with other relevant information (e.g., emotional valence). This requires significant long-range axonal pathways (feedforward and feedback) between brain regions integrating this information;
5. Laminated and columnar organization of canonical neural circuits to differentiate between inputs and to allow preservation of spatiotemporal relationships. The lamina must be capable of processing inputs as well as outputs to either higher or lower hierarchical regions while maintaining meaningful representations of the neural information. The lamina must possess strong local inhibitory interneuron circuits to filter information;
6 Strong lateral interconnections (both local and long distance) between minicolumns to maintain integrity and biological relevance of processing in relation to initial stimulus.
I propose that each of these features is necessary but not sufficient for pain in vertebrates. On this basis it should be concluded that fish lack the prerequisite neuroanatomical features necessary to perform the required neurophysiological functions responsible for the feeling of pain. Fish lack the distinct topographical coding of spatiotemporal integration of different somatosensory modalities; they lack the higher–order integration of somatosensory information with other sensory systems; and they lack a laminated and columnar organization of somatosensory information. What, then, does it feel like to be a fish? The evidence best supports the idea that it doesn’t feel like anything to be a fish. They are non-conscious animals that survive without feeling; they just do it. There is nothing heretical about this idea. For much of our lives, we humans also exist non-consciously.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22102192 - 08/17/15 10:23 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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That was interesting. Whatever you tell yourself to justify it  Yeah, pain is an unvoluntary reaction. Try putting your hand on the stove. Could use a piece of Cod by now
Edited by Beanhead (08/17/15 10:24 AM)
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22102203 - 08/17/15 10:25 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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this makes me happy OP.
I did the same thing (with the exception of losing an addiction) years ago and it's definitely one of the best decisions of my life.
keep on keepin on brother
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22102583 - 08/17/15 12:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Dairy involves cows living a life of poverty and suffering. It is also unnatural to drink milk after infancy. Humans are the only animals that do it. Milk is also filled with hormones. My skin has cleared up tremendously since eliminating dairy and processed sugar.
i still eat a bowl of cereal now and again. just as long u dont overdo it u'll be alright. balance it out with exercise and lots of healthy vegetables.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted]
#22102673 - 08/17/15 12:44 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well congratulations, man! I bet it feels pretty good making change and solving life's challenges on your own. I'm 26 too, starting to dab so much I see withdrawals and also looking to grow more/at a faster rate. Improve yeild?
It sounds like you are entering the program with a healthy outlook (and you speak the ideals, showing the value, without sounding cult-y). I'm positive you'll do fine. Keep up the good fight and keep studying hard at the academy!
Also, I use Muthsera as my screen name a lot for that exact reason, haha! Morrowind was one of the greatest boons to our generation.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: morrowasted] 2
#22102697 - 08/17/15 12:51 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: 110 days no cigarettes
3 months pescatarian
1 month no dairy
Have lost 38 pounds from my max weight. My skin is clear. I have a job that I enjoy, a living situation I like, a clear head, and I am saving money for the first time in my life.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: zZZz]
#22102780 - 08/17/15 01:14 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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zZZz said:
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morrowasted said: Dairy involves cows living a life of poverty and suffering. It is also unnatural to drink milk after infancy. Humans are the only animals that do it. Milk is also filled with hormones. My skin has cleared up tremendously since eliminating dairy and processed sugar.
i still eat a bowl of cereal now and again. just as long u dont overdo it u'll be alright. balance it out with exercise and lots of healthy vegetables.
I eat cereal almost everyday. you know you can drink milk from nuts right? Almond milk is really healthy. I make my own in like 20 minutes 
I disagree about the moderation though. I think most people are lactose-intolerant, but you don't realize when you're body is used to it. Since I stopped, one bowl of cereal would wreck me for a day or two.
dairy is whack man.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: zZZz] 1
#22102860 - 08/17/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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zZZz said:
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morrowasted said: Dairy involves cows living a life of poverty and suffering. It is also unnatural to drink milk after infancy. Humans are the only animals that do it. Milk is also filled with hormones. My skin has cleared up tremendously since eliminating dairy and processed sugar.
i still eat a bowl of cereal now and again. just as long u dont overdo it u'll be alright. balance it out with exercise and lots of healthy vegetables.
I eat cereal every day with almond milk.
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well i drink it at least once a week, when i smoke weed it turns into an almost everyday thing, and i still feel great.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: zZZz]
#22102940 - 08/17/15 02:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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cause your body is still used to it. I used to chug milk, eat a ton of cheese, and I thought I felt fine.
but it wasn't till I stopped for like a month+ that I really felt the difference, and my body stopped metabolizing it as well.
maybe you're a little more well adjusted to digesting lactic acid, but more people than you would think aren't
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ive been to the highest of the high tho(health wise) many times and i know where u're coming from.
when u're that healthy even a potato chip can make u feel like shit. and in this day and age u either learn to adapt or u become a recluse.
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Re: 4 months clean and sober [Re: zZZz]
#22103194 - 08/17/15 03:25 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cigarettes are useless, good riddance. Cost money, unhealthy, and no real high.
Say morrowasted, did you try getting high on endorphins?
My favorite source of endorphins is 2 hours of workout followed by long hot saunas. A real natural high, and good for the sex too.
Keep it up
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