@IBelieveInTheFallen Personally, I find it exhausting to maintain any kind of emotional offset in either direction: positive or negative. The easiest and most productive state, I think, is neutrality by default and positivity or negativity as needed.

While it might sound less distasteful, trying to maintain a constantly-positive state is unnatural, and it does a disservice to the evolutionary role of emotions. Happiness in my view is meant to be an occasional reward for making the right choices.

@MrUnknown

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check out lozenges too. Tbh the main obstacle is work habit. I socialize with a lot of smokers. I need to decondition myself.

If social influence is a variable to the problem, maybe you should also consider vaping as well. It enables you to maintain your social habit of public smoking and enables you to influence your smoker coworkers to consider following your example if they see it works fine for you. You can use the lozenges during your commute, and vape with your coworkers.

@TiberiusBravo87 I quit the booze on and off.

Lost 10 lbs when I quit hooch. I like hooch but it makes me fat so I dont drink it anymore.

Makes me drunk too. I'd heat that shit up and drink it like tea in the AM.

Tequila made me skinny. Never had a weight problem with Jose.

@TiberiusBravo87 Indeed. Your axe body spray isn't fooling anybody

@TiberiusBravo87 Vaping is a good shout. Never seemed like an option. The part about patches and lozenges. I'm going to try them first. If they don't work, I'll try vaping.

Can imagine bitch behaviour coming about from withdrawal. Nicotine does it's best chemically to enslave you. The companies are no better than Heroin pushers.

@carnold03 Thanks for the heads up. I'll check out lozenges too. Tbh the main obstacle is work habit. I socialize with a lot of smokers. I need to decondition myself.