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Wellness Wednesday for April 22, 2026

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Tapering off with weaker juice is the way to go. Once you go from 3mg to 0mg it's a case of a few days of habitual puffing until you think "wait, why am I doing this?" and will stop very easily because there's no longer a deficit demanding to be replenished. After that there's no more addiction and no more expense. Problem solved.

This was exactly how I did it. The easiest part was the way 0mg juice gurgled all wrong.

But there have been crackdowns of all stupid kinds, and AIUI, the community of home-brew stores that would make you custom blend juices are not so much a thing anymore, so it may be harder to manage a gentle decline.