Best substance abuse recovery books according to redditors

There is a pretty good book about this called Methland that I read and really enjoyed some time ago.

The two big factors from the authors research was the terrible economy, and the fact that meth is crazy easy to make and gets you insanely high for days.

I don't know how many of you guys have read the book Methland but it's about Oelwein, Iowa, one of the Midwest's meth capitals for the last 35 or so years. I lived about 10 miles from Oelwein until I moved to college this year. I read the book a couple years ago, and the story that stuck with me was about a meth cook. A guy named Roland Jarvis. He was high as hell, and got paranoid, started seeing snipers in the trees (decapitated heads, no bodies mind you), and helicopters in the sky. He got scared he'd get caught with a meth lab. So he blew it up. When the shit involved in a good sized meth lab goes up in flames, it's pretty goddamned hot.

So this crazed bastard runs outside screaming. He feels strange, and starts pulling at the skin of his arms. It's melting off of him. No shit, he was burning alive so goddamned hot that his nerves instantly melted and he didn't even know he was on fire. He starts screaming "Kill me! Somebody fucking kill me!" and pulling at his melting flesh. Cops can't shoot him, no one can really help him. He gets himself put out, still begging to die, and the EMTs show up and get him to the hospital. He's horribly disfigured, but lives through this and tells the author about it.
Last summer, I'm working in a hog confinement with a former local cop who lost his job(s) for DUIs. Turns out, he was not only on duty that day in Oelwein but was first on the scene. The cop turned swine manager told us it was the funniest fucking thing he ever saw.

TL;DR: I worked with a sadistic former cop who watched a man burn alive after blowing up his meth house.

Yeah, so many people have this idea of ISIS radicals being just really devout muslims who got into bombing as part of their religion.

The reality is that, first and foremost, they resemble the proto-alt-righter: a depressed, listless, rejected, usually young male, with an authoritarian and aggressive personality. After that, it's normal brainwashing techniques: approached in a time of weakness, torn down emotionally, encouraged to trash all aspects of their previous life, and slowly trained by incremental reward to follow the agenda.

If you're interested in how that works, I recommend reading this book about Synanon.

Also: https://medium.com/@GillBranstetter/the-alt-right-is-a-doomsday-cult-b40edd66062a

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-right-online-poison-racist-bigot-sam-harris-milo-yiannopoulos-islamophobia

Terrorists are often cultists. That's not to say they're not culpable for their actions, but the patterns tend to resemble each other.

Yes, lets. Because I hadn't noticed the Greek austerity defense piece (until you pointed it out) but I certainly did notice that the overall slant of the SSDI piece was to portray SSDI as welfare.

Here's something else I noticed. The week after Planet Money's SSDI piece, the NYT did their own SSDI piece, also going to a town with a disproportionate number of people on SSDI. And found something entirely different. They didn't find under-educated people using SSDI as a way to make up for the loss of manufacturing jobs in America, they found a non-union workplace thumbing its nose at OSHA and ignoring its suppliers' own MSDS warnings, and resultingly crippling every single assembly line worker in as little as a year on the line.

This didn't surprise me, because I also read Nick Reding's Methland, and one of its primary findings was that every major meth epidemic in America can be traced back to a non-union workforce with poor ergonomics or other safety risks, no paid sick leave, and little or no health care; that the first people to bring huge amounts of meth to a town are injured workers who have to find some way to work through the pain if they want to keep their jobs. Earlier reporting found the same thing about opiate pill mills.

I see no evidence that Alternet's columnist is right in suggesting that Planet Money gets this wrong on purpose, no evidence that this is some kind of conspiracy to suck up to rich potential sponsors. Given Planet Money's willingness to go after various sacred cows (I should say, by the way, that I am a huge fan of the show) I assume that it's not. But it does say something about the biases of the show that, to Planet Money, given a choice between looking for evidence that American employers are crippling unusually high percentages of their workers through neglected safety measures combined with over-work or looking for evidence that somebody, however well meaning, is organizing mass welfare fraud, Planet Money's reporters went looking for the latter.

Listen I am the partner of 22 years to a porn addict. I wouldn't wish this Hellish life on my worst enemy.

There is a hugo huge difference between a casual user and a on-line digital sexaholic. It's the difference between going to the bar and having a glass of wine, and a dead drunk black-out alcoholic. You have gotten yourself involved with a straight up hard core addict. He is just as addicted as if he were shooting meth several times a day, that's how hard it is to quit and become sober.

​His mating instinct is so fucked up, his ability to maintain emotional monogamy is non-existent. He is addicted to the constant novelty of new lust-able images at the click of a mouse, so much so that a live face to face willing partner can never ever compete. The ability of being able to hold his erection in a state of constant readiness is nothing a normal sexual encounter can mimic. The ejaculation happening at the exact moment his brain is flooded with dopamine is unmatched in his pleasure centers. For the addict, there is nothing in this world like it.

I have no doubt he is a wonderful person. Loving, kind, attentive, fun to be around..just about all sexaholics I know are. I should know, I fell in love with one myself. I ignored all the signs, I had no clue porn addiction even existed all those years ago. Had I known then what I know now, I would have run like Mother Fucking Hell in the opposite direction. I wasted my youth, beauty ...the prime sexual years of my life on a man who couldn't even see me as anything more then an object. Shit sexaholics don't see any female as anything more then objects, it's the nature of the disease.

Sexaholism is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. Like all addictions, its negative impact on the addict and on family members increases as the disorder progresses. Over time, one usually has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results

Often, people with sex addiction aren’t very good about providing emotional and intimacy investment in their partners. They try and normalize their lack of physical and emotional availability in order to avoid the blatant reality that their addiction is driven by a chronic inability to cultivate authentic attachment to others. Living through the trauma of repeated infidelity poses risks to your emotional and physical health, and being gaslit by someone with sex addiction can result in a PTSD-like trauma.

Until my psychologist asked me how I was dealing with the reverberations of trauma. I retorted, “what trauma… that was his problem…” but just as those words escaped my mouth I began to realize the ways in which I’d been impacted by my ex-husband’s addiction. It took nearly five years of personal therapeutic work for me to learn new scripts of intimacy in partnership, scripts that were centered on mutual love, unconditional positive regard, and authentic community:

He will not ever be able to get sober until he hits his personal rock bottom. Usually that about the time his dick hits erectile dysfunction and he can't get it up any more. You see, they masturbate so much, they expand the blood vessels and the blood pools rather then inflates. You stick around long enough, you'll get to enjoy that perk.

People here who are warning you of the ups and downs are not just saying that. Right now he is all good intentions, but he is white knuckling it. The withdrawals are massive and his willpower is not going to last. He is powerless over lust. There is not one damn thing you can do in this whole wide world to help him. There is almost a 110 percent chance he is going to relapse and relapse hard. You may or may not know. It won't matter how understanding and supportive you are, or are not. This addiction is totally not about you.

We say it is cancer of the brain. As such, you need to attack it as if it is life threatening. With all the help you can get. I am going to give you links towards that end. Maybe he will look at them and choose to use them. Know that you cannot make him, this has to be his journey, using his gas.

There is a link to S-anon for you. Check it out and find a meeting. Without that 12 step group I wouldn't be in my relationship and sane.

If you want to explore a real life situation from a man's point of view, check out these You Tube video's from Terry Crews, there are several of them, They helped me decide to stay with my partner and work thru our problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4krRkO4sHc

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If you decide to stay and work on your relationship, I have several suggestions.

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First try to see a CSAT counsler, a specialist in addiction therapy, for both the addict and the partner of the addict. Having someone explain the intricacies of the disease, how it effects the brain, and what it takes to beat it is they only way to understand what you both are faced with. https://www.sexhelp.com/am-i-a-sex-addict/

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A recovery treatment center: http://www.lifestarnetwork.com/

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There are SAA meetings for your partner if they wants to quit or control their habit https://saa-recovery.org/Meetings/UnitedStates/

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On-line here is a recovery worksheet for your partner: https://www.smartrecovery.org/smart-recovery-toolbox/ On-line program for the SA: https://www.drglover.com/tpi-university/sons-of-ulysses.html

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Here is a good article about 12 step programs, it talks about AA and drug programs, but sexaholism is right there with them: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/24/to-ben-affleck-and-other-addicts-heres-my-message-to-from-one-alcoholic-to-another.html

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There are S-Anon meetings for the partners or family members of addicts, very helpful in getting you over your self doubt. http://www.sanon.org/find-a-meeting/s-anon-meeting-locations-united-states/ OR SLAA https://slaafws.org/

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Also do a little reading, get the book Out of the Shadows, by Patrick Carnes. It will give you a real life view of what a sexaholic faces on the road to recovery. Another good book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Can-Do-About-Me-ebook/dp/B00AVBERGG

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If you want to block XXX sites from your computer Here is a simple way to do so: https://cleanbrowsing.org/for-adults Or this is considered the best: K9 Web Protection: http://www1.k9webprotection.com

Blocking porn on your computer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pornfree/comments/9ueez4/a_comprehensive_guide_to_blocking_porn_on_your/

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Here is an app for your partners phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidapp.watchme

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Here is a good resource for learning about stopping this in in your life. https://www.reddit.com/r/pornfree/comments/2mfxyi/concrete_tips_for_staying_away_from_porn/

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Here is a reddit sub for addicts r/pornfree Podcasts: https://recoveredman.com/category/pfr/ Magazine for addicts: The Fix https://www.thefix.com/search/site/porn?page=11 Porn Reboot: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqaPKeiNW6R6LECHwQkRug Hypnosis for porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmpwZf5Rono

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Let me preface this by saying that people should be held accountable for their actions.

I can't help but have a little bit of sympathy for people who are caught up by meth. Something that causes so many people to do such crazy shit, like spending every penny they have, prostitute themselves or even their children, utterly destroy their appearance and ultimately lose the ability to feel pleasure/happiness. It's one hell of a gripping, messed up drug.

I read a book a few years ago called Methland (http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Death-Life-American-Small/dp/B00BV2N28S) about the drug and it's chilling how prevalent it is in rural America. There are even stories about the majority of a population in some small towns being addicted.

You should read this book. Animals and Psychedelics. It's a look into the evolutionary instinct for altered consciousness. And has some incredibly silly stories about animals drugging themselves.

There's a book written about the entire industry of teen boot camps, and it's well-written, well-researched, and extremely eye-opening. It's called 'Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids' by Maia Szalavitz. (Obligatory Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Troubled-Teen-Industry/dp/1594489106/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346358315&sr=1-2&keywords=Maia+boot+camp ) It's worth the read.

• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
  
• Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
  

> How did society even function before all of these poisonous drugs were produced to help us get through the day?

Unskilled labor requiring little to no formal education. Now a days to make a decent living requires a college education. Also, drugs were prominent in the early half of the 1900's to increase productivity. If anything, a drug free society is a modern day fallacy.

Good book.

Torrent of the ebook if your poor.

And that's why I quit smoking nearly 4 years ago, after 17 years going nuts. I read this book, btw. Took a few more years to finally sink in though.

Better book on this that deserves more attention:

http://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Maia-Szalavitz/dp/1594489106

I know it's not 100% related to the topic, but there's a book called Animals & Psychedelics, short & interesting, which I recommend you to read.

Here's an Amazon link.

There's a book you might want to check out called METHLAND. The entire book is about how meth destroys a small town. In it is a story about a guy who cooked meth. The lab exploded and he ran outside while on fire. The police arrived and couldn't do anything. He was begging them to shoot him as his skin was just falling off.

The sad thing? He survived. He's permanently disfigured over almost his entire body, and the ends of his arms are nothing but stubs now.

The horrifying thing? He still uses meth. The author wrote about how when they interviewed he intravenously inject meth somehow while using his two burned stub limbs.

It seemed like literal Hell.

edit: Here's what the guy looks like after the accident.

This might be of interest: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0190263474/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Here's some documentation on the therapeutic boarding school industry:

Island View
https://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/island-view/#

Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwndjx/thousands-of-american-teens-are-trapped-in-abusive-cult-like-treatment-centres

The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry/

The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs
https://reason.com/archives/2006/12/28/the-trouble-with-troubled-teen

“Treatment Centers” for Troubled Teens Are Gothic Nightmares
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/08/24/the_huffington_post_publishes_a_horrifying_piece_about_troubled_teen_residential.html

The Trouble With Tough Love
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800062.html

The Legal Industry for Kidnapping Teens
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jm5ng4/the-legal-industry-for-kidnapping-teens

The Troubled Teen Industry: The Politics of Abuse Within Therapeutic Boarding Schools
https://medium.com/@sneii748/the-troubled-teen-industry-the-politics-of-abuse-withintherapeutic-boarding-schools-d343435e5d36

Teen Boot Camps: America’s Legacy of Torturing Children
https://www.practicalrecovery.com/prblog/teen-boot-camps-treatment-torture/

Tough-love drug rehabs in Mexico have ‘kidnapping teams’ to help addicts recover
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/10/21/tough-love-drug-rehabs-in-mexico-have-kidnapping-teams-to-help-addicts-recover.html

When Wilderness Boot Camps Take Tough Love Too Far
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/when-wilderness-boot-camps-take-toughlove-too-far/375582/

Kidnapped for Christ Documentary | 2014
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Kidnapped-for-Christ/601437

Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (2006)
https://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Troubled-Teen-Industry/dp/1594489106/

Hope this helps.

There's a really interesting book about the Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs, wilderness programs, and other "behavior modification boarding schools." It does a great job of illustrating the manipulation carried out by the companies to convince parents to ship off their kids and how they're able to keep them there. It is very sad and disturbing, many children died in these places in horrific ways like starvation, suicide, physical abuse, untreated injuries, etc.

So when I read that you wanted to fix this, the first thought was to recommend this book to you about betrayal trauma and the authors story. I think you will get al ot out of it. My wife read it and it really helped us. My heart goes out to you and I hope your husband can find the help he needs or wants. Good luck.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Can-Do-About-Me-ebook/dp/B00AVBERGG

Lori Arnold is a major portion of the book Methland, which I recommend highly.

Edit - after reading the article, I recommend Methland over the first-person.

Actually yes. But I'm also going to tell you a whole other bunch of things about how smoking really is, beginning with it being a drug just like heroin and that there's no other way you should think about it.

That said, there is a faster way to prevent yourself from ever wanting to smoke. Buy a pack of 20, tape them together and smoke the lot in one go. I guarantee you you will never want to smoke again.

Or finally there's this.

It boils down to personal responsibility. Sadly, this is not something taught anymore in the home for whatever reason.

Cannabis is something I enjoy fairly regularly and it is no secret to anyone in my life. I make sure all of my responsibilities are done for the day before I sit down to relax (I love to write music, program, or play the uke when partaking) so I can be 100% in the moment. This provides me clarity about things that I may otherwise have had an extremely biased take on. I, however, do not put myself at the point of being a blabbering idiot if I am going out into social settings; it's not cool to do that to anyone who just wants to hang out. The point someone reaches where they appear unable to handle basic tasks is when they should be alone, lost in thought...not trying to function :) Introspection is such an important thing, shame more don't appreciate what you learn from it.

I had a friend, F, who used to be baked to the point of having the spins and passing out almost daily. He was great for playing video games with and that was about it. I hated his usage patterns but it was his choice and I made mine and broke off our friendship.

P.cubensis have helped me reach a state of understanding myself that I would never have reached on my own. Now I don't view either cannabis or psilocybin as a drug but rather a medicine. Both allow me personal insight that I hold very near and dear. Perhaps this is because of the age I was when they found me, I don't honestly know.

I view a weekly mushroom trip as my church. While some use religion as a means to better understand life and circumstance, I turn to my own mind and the insight into my own mind that nature provides through fungus. I will eat a small meal around 6am, meditate in the rising sun on the beach, and when I know things are aligned correctly, I will make myself some tea and return to meditating.

I understand why people think all drugs are bad and detrimental but it does sadden me that such indoctrination exists.

As kids we are taught that all drugs are bad. As an educated adult I fully appreciate how the FUD machine works and wish they would teach kids that "you will most likely put a substance into your body so the best weapon to have on your side is education, not abstinence.".

Wanting to be in an altered state is not a sin, it is not a malformed behavior...it is part of nature. Some animals wait for fermentation to occur and get drunk while others enjoy a psychedelic experience (http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Psychedelics-Natural-Instinct-Consciousness/dp/0892819863 - great read btw).

Be respectful, be responsible, be educated...then become enlightened.

http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Death-Life-American-Small/dp/1608192075

Took 1.73 seconds to link, I'm more efficent than you are.

Man, Iowa has got some great corn.

Best thing I ever ate tbh, when I see family up there that is all I eat basically.

On a shittier note though, meth runs rampant despite having a extremely low crime rate. (35th overall in states)

In fact the town my dad grew up in has a book written about it called Methland

He swears to me that he knows well more than half of the people mentioned in the book by name (most of the names were changed) and that a lot of the people in the book were friends/classmates

But other than that, I love how peaceful and old fashioned Iowa is. I wouldn't mind moving and rooting for the mavs from afar.

Great book about Iowa's meth problem.

Given that Daniel Dennett has recently published a book on thought experiments called Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, I thought it would be good to show one of Dennett's most famous intuition pumps.

This section of the movie is based on Daniel Dennett's though experiment first published in Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology and reprinted in his famous compendium with Douglas Hofstadter, The Mind's I.

The original paper is available here and elsewhere online.

The movie itself is a documentary and dramatization of several themes in the book The Mind's I and includes an interview with Douglas Hofstadter earlier on.

Here you go : Methland

This is actually an awesome book that traces the history of militaries employing drugs for warfare across history. Highly recommend it.


https://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Up-Short-History-Drugs/dp/0190263474

Oh yeah these are definitely real. I think almost all of the WWASP schools have closed, but there are other organizations that are essentially the same.

>I now live on DEATH ROW in Texas and honest to God the conditions are WAY better here than they were at Casa.

Source. He doesn't, um, live on death row anymore.

They're not overly legal, but a lot are operated outside the US. There have been a lot of lawsuits and raids. Here's a pretty popular book about this. I haven't read it yet but it's on my "to read" list.

Nicotine and alcohol are both addictive drugs, if you can't quit then it's a dependency problem not a discipline problem. If you ever feel like you 'need' a drink, see a professional - just because you're not a full blown alcoholic doesn't mean you have a healthy relationship with alcohol.

As for smoking, not sure if you mean weed or cigarettes. If it's the former, mixing weed with tobacco means you're probably addicted to nicotine anyway. I personally quit smoking with this method, I'd recommend it, but whatever works is fine. Weed isn't chemically addictive, so if you quit tobacco and buy a bong you'll be able to keep using it in moderation. It will fuck up your ability to be productive though, so it's probably a bad idea until you're back on your feet.

As for sleeping, just set your alarm early and stay awake when it goes off. Move your alarm so you have to get out of bed and stand up to turn it off. I'm a heavy sleeper, so I have an app that means I have to answer math questions before the alarm stops too. Find something that works for you - do not stop looking until you find it. When you change your sleep pattern, you'll be exhausted for a week or two. That's just how it is, you can't change it, you just have to suffer. No naps, no days off.

Finally, if you've been unemployed for a year, you need to watch out for depression. Stay active every day, even if it's just walking around your neighborhood. Stay social every day too, face to face communication is hugely important to your mental wellbeing. Find a creative hobby to keep your mind active - writing is free if you already have a computer, everyone has a phone camera so there's photography too, drawing, guitar, whatever interests you. Just staring at a screen all day pushing buttons on a remote/gamepad is not healthy, make something new every day even if it's just an insragram photo or a doodle to start off with.

EDIT: Finally, don't beat youself up when you fail. Everybody who tries, fails. If you want to succeed, don't use failure as an excuse to stop trying.

Methland

It's about a small town in Iowa that was destroyed by meth. I didn't know anything about the drug problem, only the stereotypes, and I learned a lot. It was a page-turner, I could barely put it down.

This book by Daniel Dennet comes to mind:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393082067/braipick-20

Try Oelwein in Fayette Co. They wrote a book about it called Methland. [Source http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00BV2N28S?pc_redir=1407356635&robot_redir=1#productDescription_secondary_view_pageState_1407640216000]

Read the book.

I went from 30 a day to none without any side effects, patches or vapours about eight years ago and haven't craved or relapsed since.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0718194551

http://www.allencarr.com/

I came here to say this. Most meth isn't that domestic crap anymore. For a good read on the meth epidemic and why/how it affected small town America, check out Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town.

Found after about ten seconds on google. I've heard stories from family who served in vietnam about how they would get "daily supplements" that were rumored to be stimulants, however I have no way to confirm that. Took a peek on wikipedia and apparently amphetamines were used by pilots and special units on both sides of World War 2. American F-16 pilots in the Persian Gulf war used them too.

There's a workbook/therapist manual published that focuses on clients' stages of change. I forgot the exact title--something like "Group Treatment of Substance Use Disorders." I've used it a lot with co-occurring clients and appreciate the ability to target treatment for where the client is at in the session.

NB: Here it is.

Hiya!!

I am not entering, but may I suggest [Methland] (http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Nick-Reding-ebook/dp/B002WU7TA0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397704961&sr=8-1&keywords=Methland)?

Such a good book. The author grew up in this town that he saw go to shit because of meth. Really good read.

They only way to know is to take a big sword and bisect her in half and look inside to find only human there.

Just kidding man.

If you are standing up for the current EIIR, then I believe you're account has been compromised or you need to hit the books, specifically this one

http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Psychedelics-Natural-Instinct-Consciousness/dp/0892819863/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211076276&sr=8-1

apparently it's a habbit.

holy fuck you're actually retarded

i was kind of joking before, but wow, you must have a carer to literally wipe your ass for you

i mean... i can understand not wanting to lose an argument, but this is an all new low

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0888683251/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=savedbygracemini&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0888683251

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6301800

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2165569

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0309071550/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=savedbygracemini&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0309071550

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11440936

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6985702

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/293141

there, 5 citations

i now have more backing up my side of the argument than you do


i didn't not only not accept anything you provided... the ONLY links you provided backed up MY side of the argument.

>Here's my sources:
www.google.com

looks like a blank page to me, guess that's you throwing in the towel with no sources. FINALLY.

Come on guys, have you not heard of Allen Carr? This shit is a piece of piss. I gave up in 2003, during my finals at uni, and it barely registered on my uncomfortable scale - it's really not hard at all. In fact it's about as hard as not banging your head against a brick wall - as soon as you realise it's making your headache worse, rather than relaxing you, you simply don't want to do it any more.

Except that the science doesn't all disagree with me.

Case in point: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2017200,00.html

EDIT: Also this book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Drinking-Enemies-Kari-Poikolainen/dp/1626526788

Oh, fuck off.

Here's an academic source.

Here's from a New York newspaper from some years ago. Still relevant.

Here's a whole fucking book

See this? You're literally at the second to bottom step.

So this is probably way late and you may be gone, but perhaps someone can relay it to you some time:

I'm gunna be a bit pig-headed and assume you haven't read this book otherwise you would be over the struggle. I wanna just tell you it's magic, it feels like it. It's basically CBT, anyone who has believed me enough to read it has quit smoking - it's beautiful, it's genius.

I wish you luck regardless.

Also, you're fucking brill at what you do. I appreciate your skillz.