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Started smoking cigarettes around 12 years old, was addicted by 14, and at my worst I was chain smoking a pack of 20 Djarum Black Grande a day (those are the Camel Wides of clove cigarettes, btw).

At the end of 2019 and coming up on 40 years old, I finally made the decision to quit (2020 was gonna be my year! lmao). I started switching to an ecig for the last few months of the year, then only the vape after 2020 hit.

After a few years of vaping the lowest strength of VUSE pods, I switched to a vape pen that uses refillable pods and vape juice. I had my suspicions that I was more addicted to the act of inhaling smoke/vapor than the nicotine itself and switched to 0% nicotine juice as a test. No issues at all there, didn’t miss the nicotine at all.

My health is way better, I spend a fraction of what I used to on my habit (one bottle of juice costs under$ 20 lasts a couple weeks), and I no longer stink like an ashtray…

BUT…

My addiction is absolutely still there - even without the nicotine. I still get irritable and cranky if I can’t take a few puffs off my vape when I want. I do plan to quit vaping entirely at some point if I live that long.

More than the average Lemming? Probably spiders. I’m far from an expert but I know more than your average person.

A demo track mikey303 did for the M8 Tracker

https://youtu.be/vjGeywcinCA

Awesome! We have some of those as well! Which of yours is your favorite so far?

We’re relatively new to the hobby and our collection is all pretty common New World Ts (mostly terrestrial, nothing super spicy) - most are still slings under 3".

I love them all for different reasons, but I’m very partial to our G. pulchripes. Our T. albo, E. campustratus, A. geniculata and T. vagans have already brought us lots of joy, and our little L. sazimai (they changed from P. sazimai to *Lasiocyano sazimai at some point) is pretty kickass so far too. Our B. klaasi and GBBs too. Ugh its really hard to pick favorites…

So cute! What species do you keep?

Not sure if they qualify as “uncommon,” but I’m currently keeping about 350 jumping spiders and 30ish tarantulas.

9s are easy up to 10 because the two digits of the answer add up to 9. 18, 27, 36, 45, etc.

If screenshots count, it’s this:

(this strain is delicious, btw)

If we’re only counting images saved, I’m sorry:

That’s where I’m at. Reddit was the only social media I was using, now it’s just Lemmy. I don’t consider it “hardcore” or some kind of bragging right, I’m just happier without it.