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Quitting things for me personally requires tricking my base lizard brain. I recall an Onion News video with a parody PSA: "Smoking is Gay". You have to use the smart guy you to outsmart the dumb guy you. Set traps for him. Anticipate his moves and crush him.

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The problem is that the dumb guy me usually recruits the smart guy me to help him in the moment. So the smart guy has to outsmart both the dumb and the smart guy together in advance, which is pretty hard!

You can't bring us this far without some examples! Fess up, OP!

Cigs: Not telling him he couldn't smoke, but that he could only smoke outside bare-chested one winter Eating: Mirror at gut hight in the kitchen Drinking: Reading that Infinite Jest section [pick one] twice a week Weed: Picked a fist fight with the guy I bought it from (he won) (this section is just a joke I do not commit crimes) The only thing a human man can't give up is onanism (I don't believe those who say they do).

>(this section is just a joke I do not commit crimes)

It's not a crime if you both consent.

That's actually an interesting one - it depends on your jurisdiction. E.g. in all Australian jurisdictions (and quite a few US states), one cannot consent to serious bodily harm. Some jurisdictions allow consent as a defence for "lower" assaults that don't meet the threshold of serious bodily harm. In Australia (I'm not as familiar with other countries), there are usually explicit carve-outs for sports like boxing, but only when under the purview of a licensed boxing authority.

Clearly the answer is organized slap fighting. ;)

Haha I remember seeing that and thinking … hm, that … would probably be more successful than most of their PSAs.

https://www.theonion.com/new-anti-smoking-ads-warn-teens-its...

The onion made me watch an unskippable ad before I could watch the video, and then started another ad 30s into the video. Incredible. No wonder they're irrelevant now.

I could not get the video to load; I assume this video on YouTube is the same one:

https://youtu.be/82x9pzHkHK4

that's the one

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