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  • I quit smoking successfully a few years ago, after at least a dozen unsuccessful attempts.
    Here’s what was different the time I succeeded:

    I changed my mindset. Basically, I told myself that I won’t ever smoke a single cigarette again in my life, no matter how shitty that makes me feel.
    The trigger for that mindset was a common cold that left me breathless for 4 weeks.
    And the key to success was the realization that:

    1.) I’m not addicted to cigarettes, I’m addicted to nicotine
    2.) Nicotine by itself isn’t all that harmful
    3.) Whenever I have a craving, I can just chew a nicotine chewing gum
    4.) Nicotine by itself isn’t even that addictive

    So I bought a whole lot of nicotine gum, and whenever I felt the slightest craving I popped one in.
    After about 2 weeks the cravings subsided (cause nicotine isn’t actually what makes you addicted).

















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    A web of mycelium that permeates the ground and constantly regenerates itself, occasionally producing visible fruiting bodies.
    It’s “immortal” only in the sense that an organism with distinct genetics doesn’t die of old age, but fungi aren’t really individual organisms like we are.