All in $PM?

The nicotine craze is insane, almost every other 20 something year old I see is either hooked on Zyns or ripping darts especially when I’m out on the weekends.

One of my friends recently quit vaping and instead picked up cigarettes (lol) and he commented that he’s noticing a lot of people switch back to cigarettes.

either way time to all in $PM? I read some crazy statistic that an extremely high percentage of ppl never quit and of those that do, the majority relapse within a year

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I used to smoke cigs and vape nicotine, but now just vape THC. At the end of the day when I'm home. Not before work or not before driving.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

HitTheAsk

I miss my Saturday morning Newport with coffee in my yard; I just hate how addicting it is for me. 

it slowly went from cigs on the weekend only -> 1 cig a night -> couple cigs a day -> smoking a cig before work.

That’s when I decided it was enough. Huberman has a lot of amazing material on quitting that helped me

Yeah I used to love waking up and having a cig and coffee. Solid buzz to start the day. I was working out hardcore and my body slowly rejected cigs. I was at half a pack a day then 1 wake up, 1 midday and 1 before sleep and eventually went to 1/2 wake up 1/2 before sleep then went to 1/4 cig getting up to nothing. I literally was unable to smoke anymore and had to stop. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I was a Camel Crush guy. Sometimes would crush sometimes not. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Jesus X Christ guys, (isiah I love ya) but "hit the ask" dude.  Really? if you can just do midpoint you'll be happy.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

Been long for 10 years. The dividends are fat. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

PrivateTechquity 🚀GME🚀

Been long for 10 years. The dividends are fat. 

how bad do you want those dividends? I have jokes and nightmare -90% drawdown stories

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

There has never been a drawdown that bad for the stock in its history... the worst it ever performed peak to trough was from mid 2017 to end of 2018 and it fell like 50%. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

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