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scorpioslut-blog1 · 5 years ago

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Social media, vices, drugs, intentions..again

On adderall. My chosen drug of preference right now. it makes me think, it makes me feel, it makes me express... i havent done it in like a week tho, so i'm sorta cracking out... bothering mila... thinking about life. I also just am always thinking, thinking so hard and about so much that I don’t even know what to do... and adderall makes me productive. it makes me feel, makes me think, makes me walk briskly and crave cigarettes and black coffee. my brother thinks i’m undiagnosed bipolar 1 and adhd, so maybe adderall was fated to be one of my many, many vices. which reminds me... i deleted instagram AGAIN, or my main account, just sort of disgusted with the distraction of it all... how i’m roaming these pages, even as an outsider, an outcast, a loner, comparing myself to everyone, being influenced by them... i dont really care about any of them... i mean i see wonderful people and wonderful things but i feel so detached, so isolated from everything and everyone. and i know i'm doing it to myself, but i dont really know how going back on instagram was supposed to help. i did it when i was lonely, and was stuck on there for a few weeks before it let me delete again. but i dont know. i guess i'm trying to live in the moment, in the real world, without the needs to broadcast everything or prove to people that i’m doing things and have friends and i'm beautiful and cool and all these things i used to care about. i just dont care, or am trying not to care, about how people perceive me. i feel like i dont, compared at least to a lot of people, but still, its this all consuming thing that ties into a lot of my concerns regarding the power of perception. and i’m just so angry. sooo angry at everybody, so angry at myself, i hate myself, i hate my family, i hate everything, and it isn’t fun. i wallow sometimes, i enjoy cigarettes and the smiths and being angry at the world but i dont know. today i missed a really important doctors appointment that, unlike most, wouldve been probably really useful and productive and instead i showed up fifteen minutes late (which is standard and not even that late) and they said i should reschedule but instead i didnt. afterwards i wanted to throw my skateboard off the second floor but i didnt, then i thought about throwing it down the stairs but i didnt. then i went outside and considered smoking a cigarette but i didnt. i instead walked back up the stupid hill i skated down in the rain just to make this stupid appointment and did all the things i'm supposed to do (after taking adderall). i went to the student store and stole a hydroflask, which felt really good, especially since i lost my old water bottle and thus my body and skin has literally suffered. then i went to walgreens and stole some black hair dye, which will give me something to do tonight besides all the responsibilities i'm perpetually neglecting. then i got a black coffee from strada (not a latte, because apparently adding any milk negates all the good shit coffee does for ur body, according to a random white guy in a dashiki i bought chips for outside of trader joes the other week). then i came to kroeber with the hopes of working on this project i'm pathetically half assing for sculpture, ran into mila, and have made him be the brunt of my adderall induced psychosis (not psychosis; using this word lightly).

now i’m outside of kroeber because i wanted a cigarette, one of the few vices i’m not even attempting to mitigate at the moment. even though its not good for my skin and my stomach, two things i've been trying to really improve. the one thing i cant bring myself to do is get up and start my day and do all the motions of a regular person. i love sleep, and there’s nothing wrong with it, except i had been having a hard time going to bed at a decent hour for a while, so i got a dab pen which helps. all i've done the last week was sleep, though, and i'm enjoying it again. i can now go to bed early ish, if i try, which is good. i think i'm also getting better at thinking, which was the main reason, i believe, i was drinking. so i wasnt thinking so damn much. i've also tried not avoiding thinking of certain things, which i historically do, distracting myself with my social life and other people’s problems and my problems and boys i like and parties i’m going to. i dont worry too much about death anymore, which might be my greatest feat. i'm going through what i'm tell my friends is a quarter-life crisis, something they will understand when they turn 21. i think that’s a big part of it. i think a lot about where i am and what my twenties are supposed to mean, where i wanna be, the person i wanna be. i had a thought the other day that i had no sense of who i am. no sense of self or identity. especially after being consumed so heavily these past few years. i dont even remember the last year. i felt like i was floating through it. which i guess is the point of all my isolation and self punishment. i want to be present for my own fucking life. i think about the last year of my life and it just feels like i never digested it, realized my context in the world, outside of my house or my friends. which is the benefit of being alone. thinking, digesting, unpacking... but then i get so lonely and bored and unmotivated and then i just distract myself with television. which is so bad, but so good. i can think about these fake lives so much more, and not think about my life, or my lack of one. i dont want to feel bad for myself. but i guess i just want things that i'm not getting right now. i want friends i can laugh with and enjoy life with. i want things to look forward to, which come and go. i want love, i want someone to sleep with at night and cook with and watch tv with. i think a lot about the things that i've had, or when i had them. i had all these emotional, physical things with justin. and it’s been almost a year since i’ve had that. i had a sexual experience after thanksgiving, i went over to this guys house who is really nice and smart and a great but just terrible in bed. TERRIBLE. but he was a good cuddler, he’s really nice and respectful (i just dont want ANY sexual relations with him at all). i think i wanna be his friend. but it was really nice to have someone in bed with me. i think its also more hard when i see everyone around me in these beautiful relationships of all sorts, so happy and productive, even if everyones mentally i.ll too, they can sleep together and do things together... but i can do that too, by myself or with friends, which is what i'm trying to do. also not use other people as crutches, as reasons to get up or wake up early or eat food or have fun or socialize. after i get through this week or two of making up an entire semester’s worth of shit i didnt do, once i have free time which i simultaneously always yet never have, i want to love life by myself. i dont want to need adderall. but at this point i just wanna do anything that fixes things. i keep telling myself that if i just get through this and keep sticking to these changes I'll be happier. my new life will cost my old one. but then the pattern tells me that i need to stop hiding from who i'm meant to be. so i dont know what to do... i know i'm a social creature, i love people and connections, but i hate everyone, i'm sick of loving and giving, i'm trying to be intentional and waring and careful with my relationships but i'm just so lonely and bitter. i'm driving everyone away, killing the few relationships i do have, i hang with bree and like her a lot but like she pointed out, thats because we live together, not that i dont like her but i'm forced to socialize with her which is good but also i should want to socialize with other people. i think going home will be great for me. connect with people. i dont want to tell people how lonely i am but i am. and itl be really nice to spend time with the people who matter to me over there. about this whole not-present-in-my-own-life-for-a-year thing, i havent really been there on the east coast. like i want to be there. i was there for so long, and i thought this place would be my home, but now i'm wondering. i think also its realizing that its me, not where i am, so i need to fix me. and i'm trying to fix myself but also, at what point do i need help? how do i get that help? i know it sounds easy, my mother says so, i just call and make these appointments. but then its just so hard to do, hard to establish these schedules and hard to get there or even want to go, and money, so i dont know. i want to take a semester off but thats not gonna happen. i want to stay but i want to go. i want to get better, but i dont want to fall into the same patterns. i want to break the pattern. i want to stop floating through my own life. i want to be productive, successful, functioning, and I want to be that fun time, that fun funny beautiful person i know i am, but i dont want to be destructive or toxic to myself or others. i want to love myself, i want to be that person i used to be. i want to be as brave and confident and sexy and interesting and mysterious as people perceive me to be, but i feel like none of those things. i dont want to shower because i dont want to look down at my body. i want to get dressed and feel good about my appearance in the morning but i just always feel so ugly and insecure and uncomfortable, and i know i wasnt always like this, sometimes i am, but i wonder if i was just faking it, and i think in many ways i was. i know growth and self improvement is not linear and not always an upwards trajectory and i am trying, but it just almost feels like I'll never be that person again, and i want to. i want to go back in time. i want to always be doing things and having fun, but i know i cant. i know i cant because its not sustainable, its self destructive, its destructive to others, and that is how i became a commodity. i became something to consume and distract and give and create fun and introduce and party with and take pictures of and with. it makes me sick. it makes me sick how people want to be me or be with me or theorize on me and my personhood and think of the ways in which i serve them, how i'm always up and happy and fun and if i'm not then i did them wrong, or i'm wrong, or i'm mad, or i'm rude. i dont like how people want things from me, how i'm always performing, always pretending. i dont like how people dont want to understand how complex people are, but then again maybe its only in regard to me. then its my fault for creating this persona, feeding into it, allowing and encouraging them to take from me, its not that theyre taking but its that i'm giving, so i dont want to give anymore. i'm sick of giving and giving then being painted the devil. i dont like trying to be this or that or hoping for this or that. so i'm not giving anymore. which hurts me, i want to give, i want to love and create and bring together. but i think about how i surround myself with beautiful people and things, hoping that if i am surrounded in beauty that it will make me beautiful. i fetishize everything, everything fetishizes me. i like to be looked at but i hate when people look at me. i want everything to be about me, but i am nothing. this is not a movie, this is real life, people die, people take drugs, people hurt, we hurt each other, the world is unfair and fucked up and some peoples likes just arent supposed to be easy. i know i'm grateful, and i'm trying to be more grateful and appreciative and exist in this life. i am thankful for my parents, but i'm mad, and i cant even vocalize or express in the ways that i want to. i cant say anything real without crying. i'm not even particularly more sad than usual, i think i'm just depressed and lonely. which i've been many times before. anyway, i'm trying to take advantage of everything around me, like i'm supposed to. i want to go to dolores and bask in the sunlight, i want to enjoy being with people but not be the entertainer. i want things to feel natural and effortless but i want to be intentional so bad, i want to be thoughtful and intentional with words and actions and situations i put myself in. like when i hooked up with that boy, i didnt want to, i didnt know how to say i just didnt want to. when i actually am invited somewhere and i socialize i want to enjoy it without drinking or drugs but i cant. i had a nice day the other day, me and my room mate and her mans and her friend who’s my friend who i love dearly and is really awesome, we all went to sutro baths and had a grand old time, a great day, we went to an estate fair and a coffee shop and we went to sutro baths then got vietnamese food, it was lovely. i want more days like that. it felt nice to socialize, be with a group of friends, having fun, being young. i want that balance, i want to focus on my career and studies and interests, i even want more days like today. i failed miserably but i took adderall and did some things in between before it hit and now i'm writing my feelings, which feels absolutely amazing. i'm on my 4.5th cigarette today, but like i said, one allowed vice in the place of many. i want to do things, to be functional, to live in this moment with full presence and action.

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ghostsrvys · 6 years ago

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May 15th 2019, 11:03pm

What is in the back seat of your car right now? I don’t have a car :( :( What was the last thing you threw up? water.

Menthol or regular cigarettes? it’s sad that I dont know the difference but I smoke them a lot of the time.

What is your favorite episode of Friends? lmao damn that’s a hard one. remember when I never used to watch friends lololol Does anyone have any blackmail on you? I dont think so...

If you could marry any celebrity today who would it be? SCOTT MESCUDI oooooowwww. two sad weirdos in love.

Have you been to a strip club? yes.

Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you? this sticker on my laptop is the closest. then there’s my kimono.

Are you wearing socks right now? no.

What was the last thing you had to drink? water.

What are you wearing right now? jeans and an astroworld tour t shirt.

Last food you ate? acai bowl.

Have you bought any clothing items in the last week? noooo

What’s the last sporting event you watched? islanders game with my boss a few weeks ago. he was literally screaming over it so thats the only reason lmao.

Last person’s house you were in? Victoria’s

Last movie you saw? Passport to paris.

Who is the last person you sent a message to on Facebook? I haven’t been on facebook in a minuuutteee.

Ever go to camp? Nah.

Were you an honor roll student in school? most of the time until high school came along.

Do you like sushi? yessss but I havent been able to eat it as much since new years when I got a stomach virus after eating some lmao.

Do you have a tan? a teeny one.

How old do you want to be when you have kids? early 30′s I guess

Have you ever drank your soda from a straw? it tastes better that way

What is your age? 25.

Are you someone’s best friend? yes

What are your siblings’ middle names? Rose, same one as mine

Where is your dad right now? nobody knows

What was the last thing you said? “or you can just not do that and not waste your time”

What color is your watch? I don’t wear a watch.

What do you think of when you think of Australia? kangaroos.

Ever ridden on a roller coaster? yes I wanna go to six flags.

Favorite gemstone? Amethyst.

Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? uber eats all day baby

Do you have a roommate? no

Do you have any bad habits? I have many.

What is your favorite number? 17

Do you know anyone named Lori? yeah but spelt differently.

What color is your mom’s hair? dark brown and gray. the hair she has left.

Do you have a dog? yes but she doesnt live with me.

What happened to you in 1993? I was born lmao.

Does your first memory involve your dad? No.

Do you remember singing any songs as kids? oh lots

When was the last time you went swimming? in the hotel pool in chicago in august.

Has your luggage ever gotten lost? no thank god.

Biggest annoyance in your life right this minute? relationship problems. all types of relationships I mean. my mental health.

Have you ever thought it would be cool to smash a guitar? ooooo yeah I want to

Do you like watching a bonfire? aw yes

Are you allergic to anything? not that I know of

What is one thing you miss about your past? being carefree and happier.

Do you ever get flu shots? no

Favorite shoes that you wear all the time? my ugg slippers I wear them everywear lmao

What is one thing you’ve learned about life recently? Hmm.

Are you jealous of anyone? I’m jealous of people that can think positively and live life to the fullest. not that I can’t but you know.

Is anyone jealous of you? How would I know.

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colorfulsuitdestiny-blog · 7 years ago

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How much would auto insurance cost for a 1995 dodge viper?

I saw the car for sale for $16,000. The Viper has only 400 horsepower.""

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Where can I get the best Auto Insurance Quotes?

My semi-annual auto insurance renewal is coming up. I've shopped before and I think I'm already getting a damn good rate, but still I'd like to try to get an even better rate. I've tried both Geico and Progressive, and both quoted me over $200 higher per year than I already pay. Any other good suggestions? This would be for coverage in California.""

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jimdsmith34 · 7 years ago

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What do e-cigarettes do to your lungs?

When e-cigarettes hit the market they seemed like a godsend to smokers (and maybe even curious non-smokers): all the enjoyment of smoking cigarettes and none, or at least far fewer, of the health risks. Youre only breathing in water vapor and pure nicotine, the ads said.

But have those claims held up since e-cigarettes were introduced to the U.S. and European markets 10 years ago? The science is a bit more complicated than it seems, with scientists doggedly fighting to heavily regulate e-cigarettes, and others touting them as the ultimate smoking cessation device. Who is right?

The Daily Dot dug into the science to try and answer this question. But, spoiler alert: The science behind e-cigarettes is young and inconclusive. They currently are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, which essentially allows e-cigarette manufacturers to operate without much oversight on nicotine contents and other chemical components in their e-cigarette liquids. However, the FDA will begin regulating e-cigarettes in August 2016.

Cancers, lung disease, and heart disease all take several years to developpeople havent been using e-cigarettes long enough to develop these diseases. Also, most e-cigarette users (called vapers) are current or former smokers, so it will be hard to parse out whether smoking or vaping was the true culprit of whatever diseases do form. Researchers can study the effects of e-cigarette aerosol in cultured cells and lab animals, but those studies cant definitively tell us what real-world e-cigarette use will look like in the long term. Lastly, several researchers are attempting to answer the question of whether or not e-cigarettes can be used to quit smoking all together. But that question has a complicated, incomplete answer too.

Lets break it down, starting with the physical differences between traditional and e-cigarettes.

Combustion vs. vaporization

Much of what makes traditional cigarettes so dangerous isnt the nicotinenicotine is super addictive, can cause heart disease, but theres very little evidence that it causes cancer. Cigarettes are dangerous because of the smoke itself. Lighting up causes the tobacco leaves and cellulose paper theyre wrapped in to combust. And combustion of plant matter releases several other chemicals: aldehydes, carbon monoxide, free radicals, heavy metalsa combination that can cause not only cancer but lead to heart and lung diseases as well.

E-cigarettes, on the other hand, use a battery to vaporize a mixture of nicotine, glycerol or propylene glycol, and flavorings, depending on the product. Vaporization happens at a much lower temperature than combustion, so it seems reasonable that it wouldnt cause the release of all the same nasties as cigarettes.

“The cancer risk is probably lower than a conventional cigarette, but the effects of the ultrafine particles and the aldehydes are about the same.”

But youre not just breathing in nicotine and water vapor, according to Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco.

In the process of heating up you get a lot of aldehydes and the ultrafine particles are themselves dangerous, Glantz told the Daily Dot over the phone. The cancer risk is probably lower than a conventional cigarette, but the effects of the ultrafine particles and the aldehydes are about the same.

The effects of the particulates may include inflammation in the lungs that can cause lung disease over time. One study found that cultured white blood cells exposed to e-cigarette vapor extract released inflammation-causing compounds, suggesting that breathing e-cigarette vapor may have similar effects within the body. Glantz also said that the particulates in both e-cigarette vapor, cigarette smoke, and air pollution can also cause the blood to get sticky, leading to clogged arteries and heart disease.

The preliminary evidence agrees with Glantzs views. According to two reviews, e-cigarette vapor is quite harmful in animal and cell culture studies. However, detractors from e-cigarettes tend to argue that e-cigarettes also release aldehydesbut theres reason to be skeptical, according to the second review. One study found that e-cigarette vapor contained formaldehydethe same probable-cancer-causing chemical used to preserve animals for dissection. However, some argued that the temperature used to create the e-cigarette vapor in that study was too high. Vaping at too-high temperatures causes a phenomenon called a dry puff which is very harsh and unpleasant, as anyone whos ever tried an e-cigarette can tell you.

“Lemme dry puff that real quick” #RealLife

Mansa Musa #LYBB (@EddzSmokesLoud) July 4, 2015

According to a recent study in the journal Addiction, e-cigarettes only release formaldehyde in the dry puff condition.

E-cigarettes are a moving target

In the 10 years theyve been on the market, e-cigarette devices have changed rapidly. The first generation e-cigarettes looked a lot like traditional ones (theyre also known as cigalikes), but werent as good at getting nicotine into the blood as traditional cigarettes.

“Time will tell whether or not that chronic inflammation will lead to disease.”

But the newer generation e-cigarettes deliver nicotine to the bloodstream at levels comparable to regular cigarettes, meaning they can give vapers the same nicotine fix as smokers. This is good news for their potential to help smokers quit smoking. But theres a catch.

Most of the data Ive seen on second and third-generation devices is that they do cause inflammation in the lungs. They do cause a measurable biological response, Robert Teran, lead author of the second review and director of SoM Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill said in a phone interview with the Daily Dot. Time will tell whether or not that chronic inflammation will lead to disease.

Additionally, e-cigarettes introduce a few variables that traditional cigarettes do not. Flavorings are common in e-cigarette liquids. While the chemicals used to create those flavors are all on the FDAs approved list of food additives, pretty much no one has studied the effect of inhaling the vapors of these chemicals, Teran said.

There is one notable exception: diacetyl. Diacetyl is the primary chemical that gives movie theater popcorn its buttery flavor. Its also a byproduct in many other foods: it gives some Chardonnays their signature buttery undertones. If you pick it up in beer, that can also be a sign that your local bar needs to clean the lines in their beer taps.

Its safe to eat, but if you breathe it in it causes bronchiolitis obliterans, otherwise known as popcorn lung, Teran said. And the only reason researchers know about the harmful effects of breathing in diacetyl is because workers in popcorn factories came down with this illness.

But diacetyl isnt just in buttery flavors. Its also in a lot of berry flavorings as well, according to one study found diacetyl in 39 of 51 e-cigarette flavors. However, diacetyl is also present in cigarette smokeat levels higher than those experienced by workers in popcorn factories, according to a 2014 study. So maybe its a wash with diacetyl.

Nonetheless, there are still many compounds in e-cigarette flavorings whose effects on the lungs are still relatively unknown. In fact, Teran believes that e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes might have more differences than similarities, and comparing them to one another might not be the best way to assess e-cigarettes health risks. After all, being safer than smoking is a very low bar to clear.

Teran cited a study from his lab that found vaping was associated with suppression of genes related to the immune system. The researchers even found many suppressed genes in vapers that they didnt find in smokers, suggesting vaping may have some unique effects on the immune system.

The ultimate cessation aid?

To say quitting smoking is hard is an understatement. Nicotine isnt just highly addictive; it can literally change the development of the brain to make people even more dependent on it if they start smoking in their teenswhich is exactly when most smokers start. Smokers looking to quit have a few options: cold turkey, gradually cutting back, using a nicotine replacement therapy, or a drug like Chantix.

Nicotine replacement therapyusing something like the patch or gumhelps smokers get their nicotine fix and taper them off of nicotine while keeping them from smoking. Many people may choose to go these treatments alone by buying the therapies over the counter at the drugstore.

According to a study from the 90s, quit rates for people who do the patch or gum alone, without the help of their doctor, vary between around 15 percent after six weeks, to less than 10 percent at 24 weeks follow-up. But subsequent reviews of that study and others like it that attempted to gain real world evidence for replacement therapies found their methodologies to be flawed.

Another review of nicotine replacement therapies found that people may be more successful if they had behavioral support such as a hotline to call or group therapy sessions. But quit rates are still low. Replacement therapy only enhances someones chances of quitting by 50 to 70 percent, according to the review. So if someone goes cold turkey without any support and has an 8 percent chance of success, using replacement therapy is only going to make their chances marginally greaterand thats only to smokers who are very highly motivated to quit.

Its unclear why quit rates are so low with replacement therapy. But part of the issue may be that smoking is more than just nicotine: its the ritual and social aspects too. E-cigarettes provide many of those same comforts, so some researchers believe they can be highly effective quitting tools.

I think someone specifically comes and seeks treatment, then I would recommend Chantix or nicotine replacement treatment, possibly supplemented by e-cigarettes, Peter Hajek, Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London, told the Daily Dot in a phone interview. So many smokers only manage to stop smoking when they try a few of these e-cigarette models.

Hajek was involved in a 2014 review of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. He and his colleagues found that e-cigarettes containing nicotine were more helpful than e-cigarettes without, but they couldnt determine if they were any better than the patch. Nonetheless, Hajek and colleagues in the Royal College of Physicians now urge smokers to make the switch to e-cigarettes, citing that they are 95 percent less harmful than cigarettes.

“They got six people together, several of whom had financial conflicts of interest, got around a table and scratched their head and scratched their butt and got that 95 percent number.”

How they got to that number is unclear. When the Daily Dot asked Hajek about it directly, he cited the many known toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke that lead to heart disease, lung disease, and cancer.

These chemicals are either totally absent or present in only minuscule amounts in e-cigarette vapor, Hajek said Chemicals exclusive to vaping may yet be found to also pose some risks, but this is unlikely to be more than only a small fraction of the risks of smoking.

But 95 percent less harmful seems like a long shot to Glantz.

The 95 percent number was simply made up, he said. If you go back and find the paper that comes up with that number. It has exactly no actual evidence in it. They got six people together, several of whom had financial conflicts of interest, got around a table and scratched their head and scratched their butt and got that 95 percent number.

Glantz thinks, if anything, e-cigarettes are about a third to a half as dangerous. Much of Glantzs work has also been to disprove the idea that e-cigarettes are useful smoking cessation tools when used alone. Earlier this year, he and his colleague published an analysis of several studies in the Lancet that e-cigarette users were 28 percent less likely to quit smoking than those who didnt use e-cigarettes.

The most dangerous thing about e-cigarettes is that they keep people smoking. If you were a cigarette smoker and you switched entirely from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, it would be less dangerous, Glantz said. The majority of the data suggests most people are dual users.

He added that he believes e-cigarettes have definitely helped some people quit. But he thinks that they would only work for a minority of smokers.

Taber also thinks that e-cigarettes might not be a good cessation tool, but that they are less harmful than traditional e-cigarettes.

If youre smoking cigarettes, going to e-cigarettes is probably better for your health, Taber said. And if youre not smoking anything at all, dont try e-cigarettes and think they wont have an effect on your lungs.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/07/19/what-do-e-cigarettes-do-to-your-lungs/ from All of Beer http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2017/07/what-do-e-cigarettes-do-to-your-lungs.html

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adambstingus · 7 years ago

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What do e-cigarettes do to your lungs?

Lets break it down, starting with the physical differences between traditional and e-cigarettes.

Combustion vs. vaporization

“The cancer risk is probably lower than a conventional cigarette, but the effects of the ultrafine particles and the aldehydes are about the same.”

“Lemme dry puff that real quick” #RealLife

Mansa Musa #LYBB (@EddzSmokesLoud) July 4, 2015

According to a recent study in the journal Addiction, e-cigarettes only release formaldehyde in the dry puff condition.

E-cigarettes are a moving target

“Time will tell whether or not that chronic inflammation will lead to disease.”

The ultimate cessation aid?

“They got six people together, several of whom had financial conflicts of interest, got around a table and scratched their head and scratched their butt and got that 95 percent number.”

But 95 percent less harmful seems like a long shot to Glantz.

He added that he believes e-cigarettes have definitely helped some people quit. But he thinks that they would only work for a minority of smokers.

Taber also thinks that e-cigarettes might not be a good cessation tool, but that they are less harmful than traditional e-cigarettes.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/07/19/what-do-e-cigarettes-do-to-your-lungs/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/163189673962

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allofbeercom · 7 years ago

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What do e-cigarettes do to your lungs?

Lets break it down, starting with the physical differences between traditional and e-cigarettes.

Combustion vs. vaporization

“The cancer risk is probably lower than a conventional cigarette, but the effects of the ultrafine particles and the aldehydes are about the same.”

“Lemme dry puff that real quick” #RealLife

Mansa Musa #LYBB (@EddzSmokesLoud) July 4, 2015

According to a recent study in the journal Addiction, e-cigarettes only release formaldehyde in the dry puff condition.

E-cigarettes are a moving target

“Time will tell whether or not that chronic inflammation will lead to disease.”

The ultimate cessation aid?

“They got six people together, several of whom had financial conflicts of interest, got around a table and scratched their head and scratched their butt and got that 95 percent number.”

But 95 percent less harmful seems like a long shot to Glantz.

He added that he believes e-cigarettes have definitely helped some people quit. But he thinks that they would only work for a minority of smokers.

Taber also thinks that e-cigarettes might not be a good cessation tool, but that they are less harmful than traditional e-cigarettes.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/07/19/what-do-e-cigarettes-do-to-your-lungs/

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What do e-cigarettes do to your lungs?

Lets break it down, starting with the physical differences between traditional and e-cigarettes.

Combustion vs. vaporization

“The cancer risk is probably lower than a conventional cigarette, but the effects of the ultrafine particles and the aldehydes are about the same.”

“Lemme dry puff that real quick” #RealLife

Mansa Musa #LYBB (@EddzSmokesLoud) July 4, 2015

According to a recent study in the journal Addiction, e-cigarettes only release formaldehyde in the dry puff condition.

E-cigarettes are a moving target

“Time will tell whether or not that chronic inflammation will lead to disease.”

The ultimate cessation aid?

“They got six people together, several of whom had financial conflicts of interest, got around a table and scratched their head and scratched their butt and got that 95 percent number.”

But 95 percent less harmful seems like a long shot to Glantz.

He added that he believes e-cigarettes have definitely helped some people quit. But he thinks that they would only work for a minority of smokers.

Taber also thinks that e-cigarettes might not be a good cessation tool, but that they are less harmful than traditional e-cigarettes.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/07/19/what-do-e-cigarettes-do-to-your-lungs/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/what-do-e-cigarettes-do-to-your-lungs/

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SXSW 2017 didn’t have a darling app, just a constellation of ride-hailing madness

Image: mashable composite/associated press/blended images

SXSW is known for having breakout apps of the year. There was Twitter, Foursquare and, most recently, Meerkat.

But this year it’s not about anything innovative in tech that’s got every attendee pulling out their smartphone and opening the app store.

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In Austin, Texas, there’s no Uber or Lyft. To make the 25-minute drive from the airport to downtown Austin, you have to either rent a car, hail a taxi, or download a new app.

And yes, you read that right: Not even Lyft.

In Austin, for almost the last year, the two biggest ride-hailing companies in the United States haven’t operated. It’s a complicated tale of citizens versus corporations, of distaste for a duopoly and annoyance for not complying to town rules, that’s left Austin as one of the few areas in the U.S. where “Let’s get an Uber” just doesn’t fly.

Instead, you’ll see this:

Image: uber screenshot

Austinites and visitors, like the 70,000 people who traveled for SXSW, have to use Ride Austin, Fasten, Fare, Get Me, Arcade City, Wingz, zTrip, Chariot, pedicabs, taxis, and walking insteadjust to name a few options. In a world (well, city) without Uber and Lyft, innovation’s emerged, some say, with dozens of new players seizing the opportunity to grow a transportation business.

“I would say Austin is innovative and developing. Frankly, I’m just proud of my city for being able to adapt in real-time for the loss of the big players,” Austin city Mayor Steve Adler said.

But others critique that what has happened in Austin isn’t really that innovative. “Is it really innovation, or are they just less sophisticated ride-sharing platforms?” said Austin city council member Ellen Troxclair.

Over a week spent taking cars, interviewing the new players, the tech giants, the legislators, the drivers, the riders and the visitors in Austin, we came to learn that in some ways, the city’s just created another duopoly, which has led to a state of confusion and mismanagement. Is it worth it? Is it really safer? And then, of course, what about that black market player we discovered, the one operating a service on the blockchain?

What’s really happening when you catch a ride in Austin?

Welcome to Austin

When I arrived at SXSW on March 9, the Austin airport greeted me with a sign for Ride Austin.

Downloading fake Uber http://pic.twitter.com/DxzAqMLxHQ

Kerry Flynn #SXSW (@kerrymflynn) March 9, 2017

I was joking, of course. But when I cracked open the local-use app, I found a design strikingly similar to Uber itself. How do they get away with it? Well: Just ask Facebook how they get away with all three of their Stories products. They do it because they can.

My Mashable colleagues, who I tasked with sharing their ride-hailing experiences with me, found Ride Austin to be their go-to service of the trip.

“I used RideAustin just now and it was basically exactly like Uber, but I didnt feel like shit for using it (given all the recent news/management problems),” one colleague wrote to me on Slack. “Nothing bad about the service. It was great. The car I had smelt like cigarette smoke, but the driver was so lovely that it didnt bother me too much.”

Another one of my colleagues, who’s quite familiar with product design, didn’t have an enjoyable time with the app, however.

“Ride Austin on Android is a really bad experience, to the point where I couldn’t even use it. The first screen gives you single option to sign in, on the next screen you can authenticate with FB, or use an existing email/PW combo. If you do FB it lets you go through the whole rigamarole and then gives error that you have to sign up first,” she said. “On the plus side, the cab line went fast.”

According to my first Ride Austin driver from the airport to the hotel, Austinites and visitors should have multiple ride-hailing apps on their phone in case of congestion. He drove for Fasten, as well.

“The app was crashing a bunch the first time I used it, and kept signing me out, but it seems to be holding up now,” another one of my colleagues said. “All in all, it doesn’t feel like I miss Uber all that much.”

Companies drive in

So why no Uber and Lyft? The two companies left the city last year after losing a fight against a ballot measure to eliminate the need for drivers to have fingerprint background checks. Lyft and Uber argued that this safety measure was unnecessary and funneled millions of dollars into lobbying against it.

But when the giants left, smaller players looked ahead, such as Fasten, a ride-hailing app that had so far only operated in Boston.

“We saw opportunity to do something good here. Multibillion companies have been built on top of drivers who do all the work. Why would we take a quarter out of each drivers dollar just because we can? We recognized the mistakes that Uber and Lyft were making. We saw room for a company for putting people first,” Fasten CEO Kirill Evdakov tells me in their WeWork space a few miles up from downtown Austin.

Sitting across from four men at a table, I learn that while these men consider their business to be the third biggest player under Uber and Lyft, they don’t see ride-hailing as an innovative business.

“Ride-sharing being an innovation was so much of a hype,” said Fasten CMO Roman Levitskiy. “Ride-sharing is a new business for America, not for Russia.”

Still, the men are competitive against their rivals in Austinparticularly with Ride Austin. Fasten has 60 percent of the market in Austin, according to Fasten.

Image: created by fasten

Some riders, and drivers, preferred Ride Austin due to its nonprofit status. Riders can choose to roundup to the dollar and donate the rest to a charity of their choices.

So while there apparently seems to be another duopoly at play in Austin, SXSW attendees did have some other options. Chariot, a startup acquired by Ford last year, was running its shuttle vans throughout downtown.

“Our goal is to become the first global mass transit,” Chariot CEO Ali Vahabzadeh said. “Food, clothing, shelter, and transportation has become the fourth standard of living. We’re really excited that Chariot can become a part of the solution.”

Wingz also runs in Austin as a personal driver service, coordinated through an app. “Our drivers are waiting for you, rather than you waiting on the curb for Uber and Lyft,” CEO Chris Brandon said. “You are completely under the control of the Uber and Lyft platform. On Wingz, you schedule the time. You schedule the driver.”

An underground option also exists. Arcade City takes rides via Facebook Messenger (and an app) and is built on the blockchain to bypass regulations. I asked for an interview with the regional director in Texas only to be told in an email: “I’m out there running on the front lines with the other drivers as well. So I sleep very little and drive all the time.”

The comeback

SXSW didn’t run seamlessly. Ride Austin and Fasten had “glitches” Saturday nightarguably, the busiest time for SXSW events.

The mayor, who spoke with me on the phone several times over the week, was quick to defend and champion the apps. “We had a glitch on Saturday. I can remember being at the [Democratic National Convention] in July and Uber didnt work,” he said.

“I think the real thing you should look at is how did they recover last night? I havent heard from Fasten, but Ride Austin was 14,000 [rides] strong,” he continued.

There’s always other, non-tech options in Austin. The weekend after Uber and Lyft left a conference across the street from City Hall hired pedicabs, according to Council Member Troxclair.

Image: ellen troxclair

Uber and Lyft may come back soon. During the second week of SXSW, a new ride-hailing bill was presented to the House Transportation Committee of Texas.

“Uber wishes to be in many, many more cities in Texas, and our hope is that one day we can cover the entire state,” TrevorTheunissen, Uber’s Public Affairs Lead in Texas, said in his testimony before the committee. “However, the local regulations under which we currently operate vary as much as Texas landscape, and it presents unique challenges when it comes to moving people across multiple lines of jurisdiction.”

One driver said he didn’t really miss Uber. “They were so douchey to deal with. They could care less about us,” he said.

Several of the drivers I rode with during SXSW used to work for Uber and/or Lyft. One driver said he didn’t really miss Uber. “They were so douchey to deal with. They could care less about us,” he said.

“As a consumer,” he said, “they were a good deal. I had to get a regular job when I was driving for them because there was no minimum fare. The cost got so low.”

Austinites are rather apprehensive over Uber’s return. “There are a lot of people in Austin that do really miss Uber though just for convenience factor, just because it’s a little cheaper, but most of us would rather pay $2 more,” said Elise Graham, an Austin resident and cofounder of Olivia AI.

Sometimes, though, technologybe it a major player like Uber or a minor one like Ride Austinjust doesn’t work. My boyfriend was left stranded at a strip mall after his Ride Austin ride took him to the wrong address. It was either walk in the rain for 30 minutes, wait for another driver, or find a different solution.

Turns out a few kids in the parking lot were willing to offer a ride back to downtown. Good ole Southern hospitality.

Back in New York

Walking through New York’s LaGuardia airport, after eight days in Austin, I was quickly reminded of Uber and Lyft.

Lyft!!!! You’ve been missed http://pic.twitter.com/Sp6WVQyNal

Kerry Flynn (@kerrymflynn) March 17, 2017

And Uber. Except #DeleteUber http://pic.twitter.com/NNqz8mzrUF

Kerry Flynn (@kerrymflynn) March 17, 2017

Three Uber employees were stationed by the exit, dressed in Uber shirts, holding Uber bags and handing out cards for $10 UberPool rides.

One of the employees said she “loved working for Uber because I get to help people get home. It’s a good company full of loving people.”

I thanked her for her time and said I had to go catch my Lyft outside.

“Lyft, they’re good too,” she said.

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