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:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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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.
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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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I'll keep that in mind should I try, and after all, it's the same advice I gave a good friend of mine just a day or two ago!
I've done it a couple of times before (cue quitting is easy dozens of times joke). Currently doing it again in a very drawn out manner.
Since you're a doctor I assume you're aware of nicotine's effect on blood pressure and peripheral circulation. Everyone knows that smoking = lung cancer and heart attacks, and a lot of that is because smoke of any kind is bad for you, but it's worth pointing out for the general Wellness readership that, while vaping is a lot safer than smoking, nicotine has inherent effects on health regardless of whether it's burnt in a giant sweaty cigar or administered by a sterile prescription nicotine replacement widget made in a lab by big pharma. I don't have the faintly whistling wheeze that can't be trivially coughed away when lying in bed quietly any more since stopping smoking, and my sense of taste and smell is much better, but I still get cold hands and feet from the vasoconstriction and need to start thinking more about my blood pressure.
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