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What Are We Supposed To Believe?

JonesCarpeDiem
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Cholesterol/Sugar/Nicotine Delivery

For years we've heard that olive oil is the healthiest cooking oil. YEARS!

For years diet soda was touted as the solution to high sugar drinks. YEARS!

For years we were warned to not overdo eating eggs. YEARS!

For years we've been told that vaping is a safe alternative to smoking. YEARS!

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Personally, I don't cook with a lot of oils and I don't fry foods at home because I find it easier to go out and get 2 pieces of fried chicken than frying it myself and cleaning up the mess. Yes, you can go to chicken restaurants and just order 2 pieces of chicken without the sides.

I generally prefer an oil that doesn't add a flavor to what I'm cooking.

This is why they don't make donuts with olive oil.  

Diet sodas trick the brain into thinking it's getting sugar but as it turns out, they now say they're not any better than drinks with sugar.

The jury is still out on vaping.

To me, vaping is smoking with a battery, the only difference being that due to the advertising hype of "safety," people put zero restraints on themselves and are often ingesting more nicotine as a result which only keeps them more attached.

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.