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Wednesday Whinge - 23rd August 2023
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Welcome to Wednesday Whinge.
A place for us all come together and get some stuff off our collective chest.
Fun fact; a grumble is the name for a group of Pugs. So what's had you grumbling this week?
It's awesome that you're quitting several vices, you're going to have a hard time cold turkeying caffeine, nicotine and salt all at once. Have you considered a taper instead of straight quitting three different substances which will all have a drastic effect alone, let alone combined? Also bear in mind you need a little salt in a healthy diet! So I hope you meant quitting excessive salt.
To be honest, it was probably an overreaction to what was going on, but yeah, basically cold turkey. I stopped putting salt on stuff, but will go back now but less than I used to. I do tend to put a lot of salt on stuff, so that's probably something I should sort anyway. I think I got a bit liberal after flirting with keto.
I'd already been tapering off of nicotine, and was vaping something in the range of 1-3mg, whereas those disposables are supposed to be 20mg for reference. I probably will vape again when drinking, but dropping the daily habit is a step towards quitting.
Caffeine's been the hardest. I've had caffeine headaches for days. I don't remember going a day without it, and would drink somewhere in the range of 2 - 4 coffees/cokes a day, sometimes a 2ltr bottle to myself. I've realised I relied on it to feel motivated and I'm kind of a different person without it. It's weird. Cutting it out has reduced my anxiety and over thinking though, so I think I'm going to keep cutting it out.
I did a few weeks off coffee couple of months ago, it is indeed one of the worst ones. Nicotine for me was purely mental with very few physical symptoms, caffeine was horrendous. Then a helpful soul on here informed me I hadn't really detoxed off it, as it apparently it takes about a month to fully work out of our system!
Good luck with your new habits. And remember if you do have a day where you 'fail' with one of them it's not a failure, stopping for a week is a giant improvement on everyday.
A whole, wait, what now!?
I was similarly shocked and horrified haha.