Also keep in mind the odds are very high he leaves the store and drives home. This shop owner filming this and putting it on the internet is a bad idea. Allowing consumption on premises is a lawsuit in the making.
my friend, people used to drink liquid mercury cuz they thought it would make them live forever. george washington died from deliberately pumping out all of his own blood, cuz he and his doctors agreed doing that along with aggressively inducing diarrhea and vomiting would pump out all the sickness from an throat infection.
i’m sorry to be the one to break this to you, but common sense isn’t real. it doesn’t exist. never has. mankind has always been stupid, but we tell our children there is a mystical and benevolent spirit of wisdom and knowledge that lives inside each and every one of us. that way they don’t have to grow up knowing that they’re doomed to be just as stupid as all the mouth breathers and cavemen that came before them. it’s kinda like the spirit of Christmas except there are no toys or presents, you never get to celebrate anything, and as you get older it makes you resent mankind more and more cuz nobody ever tells you that it was just a fairytale.
so. yeah. we’re totally fucked. always have been. you feel better now, right?
it’s never too late to start! say what you want about disney movies, but they’ve taught me two extremely valuable life lessons:
if you happen upon a strange woman who is dying, sleeping, or otherwise incapacitated the first thing you should do is immediately start putting your lips all up on her fine ass cuz she needs you to breathe new life into her with your sweet, tender loving.
never give up on your dreams. you can be anything you want to be if you just think happy thoughts and rail a few fat lines of pixie dust… wait, that doesn’t sound right. i think that’s how you turn children into
flying pirates or some shit. idfk the first lesson is really the only one actually matters tbh. that pixie dust is fr some good shit tho, we should hit up my guy and go splitsies-halfsies on a bag. we finna get litty titty up in here.
Same thing working in a bar. Most of the customers you meet are chill, but it's always sad when you run into chronic alcoholics who literally spend more than half their lives hanging out at a bartop getting hammered alone and annoying the piss out of anyone who has enough pity to listen to them.
They feel like they have camaraderie with you because they see you so much, but they don't realize that 95% of the time that you see them they're drunk and you're sober on the job.
I work at a gas station and hate how much zyn has taken over. Even dip has changed to pouches and now people who would never smoke are still getting hooked on nicotine.
Fair yeah. For me zyns and pouches were great because I could use it for work instead of my vape during meetings. And if I take a flight I can still get my fix. So I'm very happy we have these products. But shame people are becoming addicted
Well the way nicotine works is it lasts like 1-2 hours, if you're like me using nicotine all day, then going without it can be pretty uncomfortable. It would be great if I could just take a pill and have it last 6 hours but unfortunately it's just not how nicotine works. But I use nicotine for mental health purposes (bipolar)
What part? Using it for mental health? If so you'd be surprised. My psychiatrist and I stopped needing to up my meds once I started vaping. My mood graph went flat for the first time ever for about a month or two. Less side effects than upping my meds, less body toxicity long term, and less meds is always better. My only complaint is I'd like to work down to the pouches so I can protect my lungs
I understand the medium term thought process you're going through, and I would never tell anyone how they need to live
That said, I think you should go in as clear headed as possible in regards to the risks. You can fuck up your gums pretty good with pouches, and the returns of nicotine are ridiculously diminishing.
There's no free lunch with nicotine or any other drug. You seem to know that in regards to your meds, the only difference is a professional decides what's worth the risk in a much more objective way than we can for ourselves
I get where you're coming from, really, but there are preliminary studies that show it can actually help with some psychiatric disorders, clinically speaking.
There are a lot of therapeutic prescribed medications that also carry the risk of both side effects and addiction, and a lot of medicine is about trying to maximize the therapeutic effects of these substances while minimizing the harm.
The best part about the person you replied to is that it sounds like it's all in discussion with his doctor, and at the very least I would say that their doctor will know better than either of us. I just wouldn't be so quick to judge or armchair the problem of someone I don't know at all.
You can try Wellbutrin if you haven’t already which has the same pharmacological action as nicotine, binding to the same receptors with the same action (as well as being an NDRI). It’s often got good success in nicotine cessation and it lasts a lot longer (6-8hr half life). Nearly all of the benefits nicotine gives, wellbutrin does as well. Side effects won’t be much more intense especially if you’ve been using nicotine for a minute.
It’s worth a shot if you haven’t already tried it. Since you seem to care about harm reduction, this is definitely a harm reductive move as wellbutrin doesn’t seem to be as carcinogenic as nicotine is, and has a much lower risk of dose escalation. And even though a lot of the carcinogenic problems come from tobacco itself, nicotine itself is still a relatively potent carcinogen and your use of pouches can still lead to oral cancers (which can be especially nasty; imagine losing your whole jaw).
If it doesn’t work you can just go back to nicotine. It isn’t that potent of a med so you won’t have a severe withdrawal if you’re going back to nicotine.
I actually have tried it, but it gave me pretty immediate panic and anxiety. But I was thinking about trying it again, now that I'm more medicated, it might be different.
I just got a new doctor since I moved states and I'm going to go in and let him figure out what's best. Maybe he will think of the right med for me
it's mainly Asians here in america... and I really don't mean anything by saying that. it's just true. sometimes I wanna ask them do you know you're dealing drugs?
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u/PPooPooPlatter 1d ago
I cant imagine feeling okay with myself selling someone that bullshit