I QUIT SMOKING - 30 DAYS OF STRENGTH

[UnbornTao]

Keep it up!

Withdrawal symptoms can be intense (I’m not a smoker), but as you said, they’re manageable. Just push through this phase of struggle and focus on the long-term benefits. Good luck.

[Optimized Life]

Day 8-14 is very real 

1. Technically you've already won at this stage because of the of sunk cost fallacy, so there's some satisfaction

2. But the anger, the restless sleep and cortisol is unhinged 

I could literally join WW3 and go to war right now, amped up on cortisol  

The main thing i've learnt from this : The Power Of Precise Education & Knowledge & also the importance of our relationship and perception towards things/knowledge and how that interplays within the social matrix  

1. Before, to me "smoking was very bad" - but also there's competing thoughts like "everything in moderation" "Carl jung smoked pipe, nicotine is a strong nootropic"
2. I got in a loop whereby every time I fucked up on something important I smoked, every time I needed to reflect at night I smoked, and there was some genuine short term benefit, probably even  intellectual 

3. Heres the main thing : 

There's "knowledge" and then theres KNOWLEDGE - Which is precise, vivid ect.. 

• "Smoking is bad ... but I'm stressed at the moment so its a cope right, i'll quit when im rich"

VS > Smoking moderately for just 2-3 months literally ages your face by 2 years, and takes 90 days to recover the damage, and if you keep smoking just for a year, you age your face even more, you literally suddenly look years older than you did. 

Also, "smoking is a cope for stress" is a myth - it's basically just retarded, it increases baseline anxiety, this is a fact. Nicotine = Anxiety 

Also if you are a smoker, then guaranteed every time you sleep you are in mild withdrawal, that's why it's so addictive & "more addictive than heroin", the withdrawal is such a fast onset that you're not even given the time and space to sleep 7 hours without it

Then becuase you sleep in mild withdrawal, there is no chance in hell you are not damaging your brain every day, waking up full of cortisol every day, damaging you body with withdrawal induced anxiety and stress and poor sleep architecutre every day, so there branches out other 2nd and 3rd order consequences,  this is an accumulation of bodily damage, every day, comounding inmediately and exponentially

Just goinig into precise detail of all the ways smoking ruins your face, is enough to never do it again, unless on rare ritualistic occasion 

@UnbornTao Thanks!!!

Edited Tuesday at 04:39 PM by Optimized Life

[Optimized Life]

I'm literally losing my fucking mind 

This better be nicotine withdrawal otherwise some bastards poisoned me with lead in my sleep. 

Haven't been so consistenly virilently angry inse  a long time

Edited Tuesday at 04:58 PM by Optimized Life

[Optimized Life]

18 hours ago, Optimized Life said:

I'm literally losing my fucking mind 

This better be nicotine withdrawal otherwise some bastards poisoned me with lead in my sleep. 

Haven't been so consistenly virilently angry inse  a long time

Anger is mostly gone now (but only god knows if it rebounds) 

Yesterday was pure rage day lmao 

Literally started kicking traffic signs and shit, picked up that wet floor thing too and kicked the shit out of it lmao 

Realized this could get dangerous so I travelled a whole hour just to find a gym with boxing and bag 

Had to smash the heavy and lighter bag for like 2 hours and power walk, completely exhaust my body 

Still can't sleep more than 5-6 Hours, I am no longer afraid of it and accept it as part of the process 

However, it's pushed me  to look into sleep and stress optimization to see if I can at least mititate the withdrawal impact - Considering buying L theanine powder and magnesium Glycineate 

Not keen to get a 20 supplement stack as that just makes your life pure chaos, looking for the magic trifecta I can rely on 

Perhaps it's L theanine + Magnesium + Maca >> Stress reduction/presence + Sleep/holistic health + libido accentuation 

I'm now not taking anything for granted, found a really cheap trial offer for a hot yoga class, interested to see how the heat detoxes my body, in combination with the mediative and body awareness stuff, it's also a good way to ground myself within feminine energy

My life still has a long way to go and I have to hustle with warrior energy in business to win, but I refuse to embody 99% of business men who are bolding, cigarette smoking, one dimensional beta provider stressed aging workaholics , wife is probably screwing the poolboy, and their life is an endless persuit of profit 

No fuck that, I will get what I need from them, get their money, do business with them, But i'll be the exception, I'll be the hot yoga, cold approaching meditating high testosterone business man, will not tolerate anything else anymore.  

If I have to sleep 5-6 hours for another 2 weeks so be it, I can only do my best, and I have faith that I will sleep properly within time, full of life and testosterone, libido, passion, and vigour  

Edited Wednesday at 11:44 AM by Optimized Life

[Optimized Life]

Grateful for my Fall : The Asymmetric Vertical Boomerang Effect 

I am grateful for my fall : smoking for months, eating mcdonalds for 6-8 months (alongside some nutritious food - which enabled me to continuously justify it), skin becoming worse, gaining body 6% body fat, yellower teeth, abusing caffiene and full of cortisol, no hobbies no balance, vibe with women getting worse even as I approached more, masturbating multiple times a day even some porn - zero sexual energy, drinking 5-10 beers a week ... 

And the 1 decision to quit smoking, plus a chat GPT boosted educational turbo injection into my brain, has led me on a strong path of resurgence, I'm not learning so much more every day from a new perespective, about health, self care, mental health, women, the subconscious mind, game, strategy, dieting, looksmaxing, prescence and aura building, no fap. 

After quitting smoking, I'm not considering doing a caffiene reset, I have been heavily addicted and unable to stop caffiene for many years, and the worst thing is that I actually am sensitive to it, I am not tolerant of it even in moderate doses, yet I kept doing it, for years ... Because I was desperate to speed up, speed up results, business. 

But sometimes slowing down, just once, or for a shortwhile, is the only thing that can truly speed you up ,ironically, it's counterintuitive and no one does it

Edited Thursday at 09:44 AM by Optimized Life