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JERUS

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AndriaD said:
Sounds like it... but I couldn't do it that way, with booze. I had to draw that line 23+ yrs ago, which could never be crossed, one day at a time. Pretty sure that particular line is the only reason I'm still alive. ;)

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I hear ya, but everyone has their own methods. I learned long ago if I simply avoid things completely the second it creeps back in I'm in full bore again. So I make it a point to take full control. Allow myself when it's not going to be an issue and say no when it's not appropriate. I've done it with quite a few things, just drinking is the last one that popped up (never liked it as you said the barfing thing, but it takes a full bottle and more to get me there so it hasn't been too much of an issue), I just see it now as having gotten unhealthy and time to kick the excess and tone it down.
 
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JERUS, I've had my drinking phase, too. I drank heavily every night (sometimes days, too) for a little over a year. The year before that, I was binge drinking regularly. I used to be like you with it, too. Very impulsive and all-or-nothing about my drinking. There was no moderate for me. I would drink until I either couldn't function/fell asleep or not at all.

That was more than a couple of years ago, now. Back then, I never saw myself being the person I am today, but shit just kind of happens.

I didn't realize how much of my energy and mental faculties were being lost to the nightly binge drinking until I stopped completely for a few days. It had brought me down to such a staggering low that I had an existential crisis. Like one of those "What is my life?!?!" moments. I just felt all around unkempt... ...physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It just felt like everything that mattered to me was slipping away from me in a big way.

And after that, I simply could not enjoy getting drunk anymore, partly because I knew what it did to me. I started thinking to myself that getting drunk was like taking out a payday advance loan on my well-being. But it was more than me just seeing the experience differently. My whole reaction to the drug changed after I dried out.

For a long time, I still had that constant nagging feeling, but I couldn't stand to drink enough to get where I wanted to be. It's like a switch would flip and suddenly I'd be hating the experience. I can't stand to have more than 2-3 drinks now. It's such a dirty feeling... ...and I mean that in a very physical sense. When I start drinking too much too fast, I just feel straight-up grimy and disoriented. It's as if my body chemistry isn't compatible with it anymore.

I do very occasionally enjoy the experience of drinking a good craft beer. I just hate being drunk. Most times, being sober and either doing what I like or pursuing it is actually more comfortable and enjoyable than being so much as buzzed. The occasion has to be just right for me to indulge just a little. The self-control could not come easier. The urge completely isn't there anymore. I find it hard to comprehend how I used to LOVE that feeling.

One word of advice I'd give you is to pay attention to the stuff floating around in your head when the option to drink pops up. There's no better time to be patient and honest with yourself. It's a great learning opportunity. Drinking has a way of weakening a person to the point where they become stronger than they were before the drinking... ...almost out of necessity. You become a person with little space for it in your life if that is what you truly want.

But what am I saying? It sounds to me like you already know this from experience.

I look back on the shit I put myself through and have no regrets. I see it as an inevitable turning point in my development as a person... ...something that had to give way one way or another. It wrought a lot of things out of me that I never knew were there. I'm a better person for having undergone those trials, and you will be too.

That's my takeaway from the whole thing, anyway. As you said, everyone handles themselves differently.
 
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Good morning!
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Kevin H. said:
OK.....Who's going to be the first guinea pig, er, uh, um,.....purchaser for the new iPV Pure X2 Coil-less subtank?o_O. It can't be me......cuz' I've bought too many tanks that wound up disappointing me in the past year:rolleyes:.
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I've overdone the dripper purchases recently. Not interested in the Pure tank in the least. However I've been drooling over a serpent
 
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kimber said:
I get all my batteries from them. Waiting on order #6... Or maybe 7

The silver Griffin has the geekvape on the top cap and the Griffin logo on the chimney,, no cursive "Griffin" on the chimney. I've rewicked that friggin thing 3 times today and it's still pouring out oh, it'll work for a few minutes, maybe even an hour but eventually it dumps.

Now I've got the Goliath. Watched a bunch of videos, built decent coils, wicked it properly and,,,,, you guessed it, it leaks.

Every single Kanger subtank with the rebuild in it also leaks. The one and only tank I have that isn't leaking is a brand new crown I just got and I've got a stock coil in it. I'm a little afraid to try the rebuildable on it!!!

I just cannot believe that I'm screwing up the wicking this bad. I swear I'm doing it just like in the million videos I've watched. Pretty effin discouraged right now. I do NOT want to keep buying coils, there's just no reason for it.
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I was having similar issues, and the only tanks that have never leaked a drop for me were premades. So I learned to rewick their coils, a 5 pack of coils should last me a year or more doing that. I never got my Griffin right, either too much or too little. Hubby is using one and I just sold the other I don't have the patience for that
 
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raymo2u said:
Got anyu pics of your wicking, I would love to help you along so you dont have anymore issues...There's a slight learning curve with wicking and after seeing where you are now an" wicking could be the proper wicking for much larger more thirsty coils...
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Well thanks,, I'd surely appreciate your input. I'll get some pics later today.
On a side note,, I filled them all and left them sitting all night and no leakers this morning. So far anyway, the day is young.
AndriaD said:
I've been waiting to see that for a long time now -- TWELVE THOUSAND CIGARETTES NOT SMOKED!!!!! WOO FUCKING HOO!!!!!!



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Congrats to you!!



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I feel so much better now. :rolleyes: My health care requests have been pushed to the next desk & they told me I will start getting the help I need like right now in about 90 to 120 days. Ain't that special. On avg it takes about 30 days for a person to starve to death. I am watching a commercial for some pricks trying to get me to change health provider insurance companies. So if I don't eat for TWO fuckin' months. I get approved & I will get all the help I need. And some say I have lost my faith in man kind. :p:p:p
 
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robot zombie said:
JERUS, I've had my drinking phase, too. I drank heavily every night (sometimes days, too) for a little over a year. The year before that, I was binge drinking regularly. I used to be like you with it, too. Very impulsive and all-or-nothing about my drinking. There was no moderate for me. I would drink until I either couldn't function/fell asleep or not at all.

That was more than a couple of years ago, now. Back then, I never saw myself being the person I am today, but shit just kind of happens.

I didn't realize how much of my energy and mental faculties were being lost to the nightly binge drinking until I stopped completely for a few days. It had brought me down to such a staggering low that I had an existential crisis. Like one of those "What is my life?!?!" moments. I just felt all around unkempt... ...physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It just felt like everything that mattered to me was slipping away from me in a big way.

And after that, I simply could not enjoy getting drunk anymore, partly because I knew what it did to me. I started thinking to myself that getting drunk was like taking out a payday advance loan on my well-being. But it was more than me just seeing the experience differently. My whole reaction to the drug changed after I dried out.

For a long time, I still had that constant nagging feeling, but I couldn't stand to drink enough to get where I wanted to be. It's like a switch would flip and suddenly I'd be hating the experience. I can't stand to have more than 2-3 drinks now. It's such a dirty feeling... ...and I mean that in a very physical sense. When I start drinking too much too fast, I just feel straight-up grimy and disoriented. It's as if my body chemistry isn't compatible with it anymore.

I do very occasionally enjoy the experience of drinking a good craft beer. I just hate being drunk. Most times, being sober and either doing what I like or pursuing it is actually more comfortable and enjoyable than being so much as buzzed. The occasion has to be just right for me to indulge just a little. The self-control could not come easier. The urge completely isn't there anymore. I find it hard to comprehend how I used to LOVE that feeling.

One word of advice I'd give you is to pay attention to the stuff floating around in your head when the option to drink pops up. There's no better time to be patient and honest with yourself. It's a great learning opportunity. Drinking has a way of weakening a person to the point where they become stronger than they were before the drinking... ...almost out of necessity. You become a person with little space for it in your life if that is what you truly want.

But what am I saying? It sounds to me like you already know this from experience.

I look back on the shit I put myself through and have no regrets. I see it as an inevitable turning point in my development as a person... ...something that had to give way one way or another. It wrought a lot of things out of me that I never knew were there. I'm a better person for having undergone those trials, and you will be too.

That's my takeaway from the whole thing, anyway. As you said, everyone handles themselves differently.
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Totally hear ya, I mainly realized I needed to tone it down/cut it out when I started looking at what I was eating to cut some weight. 1.5-2k calories of whiskey every night probably isn't good for that goal :oops:
 
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