Goals List for 2005
This year I have only one goal: I intend to take up smoking. I've tried to take up smoking in other years, but I've always failed. I keep it up for a month or two, but then during a stressful time I stop buying for a day or two. Next thing I've given up entirely. Well this time things will be different. I'll start with a few of those nicotine patches. Then I'll chew some nicotine gum. How hard can that be? If there's some kind of nicotine-milkshake on the market, then I'll quaff down one or two of those each morning. The target: cigars in June. This is gonna be so good for me. Nicotine reduces stress, does wonders for your weight and gives you a sexier, more gravelly voice. Should've done it years ago.
'mike' on Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:20:42 GMT, sez: Correction: nicotine reduces stress and reduces appetite. The voice thing is smoking. :-) Nicotine, generally speaking, is a dopamine uptake inhibitor, meaning it can/should enable you to concentrate better. I'm a bit mystified as to why such an obviously interesting drug has found so few delivery media, smoking being essentially the only one in common use. Much of what is bad about smoking comes from smoke, not from nicotine itself.
Anyway, best of luck with your project. I anticipate even better blog posts as a consequence of the lower-stress, more svelte secretgeek. :-)
'secretGeek' on Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:56:19 GMT, sez: oh excellent point Mike. So I can't expect to have any vocal improvement until i get onto the actual smoking phase of my plan.
Would "drinking whisky straight for breakfast" be a suitable action plan for improving my jazz-singing voice in the meantime? i do hope so.
I'm always easily confused about dopamine uptake inhibitors etc. Prozac is a serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (i think). Does that mean that prozac and nicotine have anything in common?
'paris' on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:21:20 GMT, sez: no Mr Geek, nicotine works more like cocaine (a selective dopamine uptake inhibitor).
So if you fail to achieve your goals with nicotine, you could try Cocaine.
Screaming at people a lot can also give your voice that jazzy-edge you seem to long for.
Good luck and keep up the excellent blog!
'Jon Galloway' on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:47:37 GMT, sez: I haven't run across any nicotine milkshakes, but in Japan you can buy energy drinks called Genki that have both caffeine and nicotine. I was skeptical about them until I saw the commercials Arnold Schwarzenager did about them:
http://www.japander.com/japander/schwarz.htm
'Benjimawoo' on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:08:05 GMT, sez: A commendable goal if ever I saw one. I managed to take up smoking some years ago. It was a bit of a slog, and not that easy, but I managed it in the end.
I briefly flirted with the idea of giving up, but I thought to do that when there are obviously so many people in the world just trying so hard to take it up seems to me insensitive and condescending.
So I'll carry on.
Good luck. Hope it goes well!
'Green' on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 04:59:33 GMT, sez: You need a bit of 'jazz' in your cigarettes, Leon.
Then you won't need to link out to 'colour tools for the design impaired', man.
Oh, and you'll add 'man' to the end of all of your sentences, dude.
'Steve S.' on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:20:42 GMT, sez: Goal #2 - Gain weight.
'Mun' on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:19:34 GMT, sez: Try Alan Carr's book :-)
I finished it just over a week ago, and haven't touched a cigarette since. Also know of a few others who read the book and kicked the habit :-)
Good luck!
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