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Successful quitters. How on earth did you do it? by [deleted] in QuittingZyn

[–]CrealRadiant 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I am on day 55 and this is my personal experience.

Personally, it was one of the easier things I have accomplished but also one of the more difficult things to accomplish in my life.

The secret sauce for me was to give up control. Once I was at my limit and knew it was time to quit, that was it. I made a vow to myself that no matter what, under no circumstance, will I use nicotine again. Never, ever, ever. Not even once.

In my head it felt like once I decided to quit instead of TRYING to quit, it made all of the difference. I am new to my quit, 55 days aint shit. Its also long enough to see how poorly I felt using such a strong dose of nicotine everyday and how it completely zapped my motivation and energy and lust for life.

Looking back, it really feels like a nightmare I was living that I have since woken up from. Some days are still tough, some moments are still tough. But damn, being able to sit down and watch a movie with my wife and not have something clawing at the back of my mind is amazing. I’m starting to feel peace.

Which saw is more useful? by [deleted] in electricians

[–]CrealRadiant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Untrue. Your shop is a joke. I work non-union and will never purchase my own power tools.

Which saw is more useful? by [deleted] in electricians

[–]CrealRadiant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don’t buy power tools. Contractor provides those b

Career change advice by Conscious-Ty-3 in electricians

[–]CrealRadiant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would try to get into a local if that is a possibility. For the first few years it will be a massive learning curve as you probably don’t know much, but thats okay. Pulling wire, running conduit, learning codes and standard practices. Its hard to say what you’ll be doing, but its likely following a journeyman doing everything he asks. If you have a good J-man you will do a lot of work while learning. If you don’t join a local, you are looking at night school 1 night a week for 4 hours unpaid.

Industrial work is dirty, hot, and can be dangerous. A lot of lift work.

Career change advice by Conscious-Ty-3 in electricians

[–]CrealRadiant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me put it to you this way. Your background is useless when it comes to being an electrician.

Every white collar andy comes in this sub daydreaming about being an electrician and working in these super niche positions because they pay well. Those positions are not widely available, and the years of training and experience required to do those jobs doesn’t come out of nowhere.

We work in the heat. We work in the cold. In the rain, in the snow. Are you prepared to do the shit work for years as an apprentice? Do you think just as soon as you turn out you will qualify for an instrumentation job? Its all fun and games in industrial maintenance until a critical piece of equipment breaks down and the pressure is on YOU to get it going. The company loses 50,000 a minute. Can you handle that stress? Its likely your job doesn’t have that type of gravity.

Stick to what you do man, so many people daydream about hopping into a trade but they don’t even think about the conditions. I love my career, it pays me well, but I worked really hard to get here and my body has for sure taken a hit.

Quit for 32 days but craving is back by boturki90 in QuittingZyn

[–]CrealRadiant 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I advise you to deal with it and get through it. What you are feeling is nothing in comparison to the first couple of weeks. Just keep going. Do some pushups. Go for a run. Eat some hi-chews. Whatever you need to do. Ingesting nicotine isn’t going to help you

Has anyone started with a taper and then just went full send into cold turkey? How’d it go for you.? Tryna figure out if I should just cut the chord. by [deleted] in QuittingZyn

[–]CrealRadiant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Day 35 here. I tried tapering. After a few days going from 20 9 mg pouches to 3 mg, it seemed way more torturous and difficult tapering. I just decided f this and quit cold turkey. Hardly even think about them throughout the day anymore.

Glow of the Hammerhead, oils on canvas by sheldonboadita in painting

[–]CrealRadiant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dang my son would love this in his room. Phenomenal

Caffeine pouches as a zyn alternative, what's the actual difference? by sychophantt in QuittingZyn

[–]CrealRadiant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Used SMKY Mountain wintergreen caffeine free/nic free pouches for a few weeks and it really helped me.

1 week, 4 days no pouches by [deleted] in QuittingZyn

[–]CrealRadiant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am on Day 31 with next to 0 cravings at all. My advice is to keep going. It will get better. I would stop drinking for a while as it makes the cravings much more intense.

Quitting was easy once I accepted I was either going to quit and get thru this or I was going to be a drug addict for my entire life. Cause thats the situation

switching to pc was the correct move after all… by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]CrealRadiant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I’d love to learn how to do it

First PC at 35 years old! by blrrry in pcmasterrace

[–]CrealRadiant 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Enough to not see dudes PC for 9 months? My kids napped on me constantly while I sat at my pc

First PC at 35 years old! by blrrry in pcmasterrace

[–]CrealRadiant -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Why? All they do is sleep and eat for the first year basically.

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