Quitting with the E-Cigarette (1433 hits)
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Submitted by Kaos-King (antius777) (View user info) at 2009-07-03 11:05:18 EDT
So, I've been thinking of quitting smoking.
I love my cigarettes, but the cost has just become outrageous. Recently, I switched to little filtered menthol cigars. A 20 pack of them only cost about two dollars. However, it's still not all that healthy, probably less so.
I've been looking into this "E-Cigarette" thing. E for Electronic. Some wacky Japanese fellows created them and they've finally made it over here to the United States. Although not yet approved by the FDA as a safe smoking alternative, there is a lot of positive research.
What appears to be a cigarette pack is actually your charger unit. It holds your E-Cigarette and extra pieces. Get this; There's a flavor cartridge that also carries a small dose (you choose the level) of nicotine that is atomized and inhaled every time you puff. A small red LCD light even flickers at the end to show the fan has been activated with the puff. There is no flame, no ash, no smoke, no scent.
AND compared to current regular cigarette prices, it's cheaper.
http://www.smokingeverywhere.com/
http://www.blucigs.com/index.php?ref=343
If anyone has tried these, I'm really interested in hearing about your experience with them.
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Submitted by sexualchocolate1984 (user info) at 2009-07-07 05:24:59 EDT (#)
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I love smoking, but my woman is growing a small person inside her and i don't want my kid to see me die of smoking related shit or not be able to run around with him/her. I also can't afford it you think you've got it bad, check out the UK for ciggy prices - RAPAGE!
So i want to quit but I keep failing, I'd like to try some of the chemical help there is available but i'm worried that I'll get a little bit fo weed on occassion and it'll make me sick smoking it with tobacco.
Hmmmmmmmm
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-07-06 13:54:51 EDT (#)
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Patches and gum are useless. Don't waste your time and money. If you want to quit, and can't handle cold turkey, usse Zyban or the other newer pill, I think it's called champex or something. Anyway, I quit using Zyban after using other methods in the past, and it definately works. It's actually easier then you'd think. You don't have any cravings, really you only have to break the habit, the chemical withdrawal is already covered. And if you do slip and have a cig, it's not as easy to fall back in since the pill blocks the nicotine recpetors, and the cigarette will be completely unsatisfying. Before you actually quit, remmeber to make a list of reasons why you want to quit. It's good to go over whenever you think about breaking down and having a cig. Reasons like being able to breathe freer, getting better sleep, not having to always worry about having cigs on you, being able to smell and taste again, saving money, etc.
Good luck.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-07-06 09:40:32 EDT (#)
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Good luck, but I favored the Nicoderm-Chantix method. The nicoderm gives you massively weird dreams, and the Chantix just makes you not give a shit about cigarettes anymore. You just don't think of it or care about it at all.
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-07-06 09:14:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-07-03 17:09:05 CDT (#)
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I decided to start smoking even MORE than I already do! I'M LOVIN' IT.
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Maybe you will die soon. One can be hopeful right?
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2009-07-05 10:39:26 EDT (#)
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I saw them at the County Fair last week...I have to admit, the technology was pretty cool, and it felt JUST like a Fleshlight...urr, I mean a cigarette...
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-07-04 15:20:52 EDT (#)
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"There's a flavor cartridge that also carries a small dose (you choose the level) of nicotine that is atomized and inhaled every time you puff."
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This sounds like the way the Cannabis clubs say is the safest way to smoke weed. No lung damage.
Interesting, but could you write without a cig hanging from your mouth and ashes on the keyboard?
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-07-04 13:57:51 EDT (#)
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Is it dishwasher safe?
Submitted by Ebenezer_Spooge (user info) at 2009-07-04 12:07:00 EDT (#)
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Submitted by darthvaderswang (user info) at 2009-07-04 04:04:09 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by darthvaderswang (user info) at 2009-07-04 04:04:09 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Jacobt26 (user info) at 2009-07-04 03:25:15 EDT (#)
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After reading through the reviews, it doesn't help you quit nicotine but it'll definitely make you not want a cigarette. The taste of a real cig is disgusting to me now. Also, don't trust that 1 cartridge=x cigarettes crap, thats based on nicotine content which you won't entirely absorb and you'll burn through faster than you would the cigarettes.
Submitted by Jacobt26 (user info) at 2009-07-04 03:20:21 EDT (#)
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I've been using one for 3 months, fuck quitting nicotine. I can breathe, jog, and taste better. Don't buy from Blu though, while their product may have some fancy features its not worth it for the cartridge bs they try to get you with. Dripping is the best method, buy a bottle of liquid and drip it directly onto the atomizer. There's an e-cig forum thats pretty useful, but I'll be fucked if I can remember the URL.
Bought my first kit from Totally-Wicked Liquid, along with a bottle of the Super High liquid, liquids about $30, a kit is $40+ depending on what you order. Get the bottle of liquid if you want to save money and drip it in. I use an RN4081, the super mini, and have heard great things about DSE901's, but they look retarded to me. Super mini has a short battery life, so carry a charged spare and maybe pick up a few extra batteries.
Submitted by SmalltownSally (user info) at 2009-07-03 23:46:42 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2009-07-03 19:27:38 EDT (#)
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I only smoke after sex anymore, which amounts to about a pack a day.
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hahahahahahaha
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2009-07-03 19:27:38 EDT (#)
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I only smoke after sex anymore, which amounts to about a pack a day.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2009-07-03 19:25:27 EDT (#)
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*sigh*
*smokes Camel Light*
sorry.
Go for it - I know I SHOULD but... damn... I love this
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-07-03 18:31:18 EDT (#)
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I have not tried it, but I did try Wellbutrin several years back. It gave me explosive shits and fucked up dreams. Pretty cool, but it didn't do shit for helping me stop. I was young. Now I accept my addictions. Now I embrace my addictions. I make love to my addictions.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-07-03 18:09:05 EDT (#)
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I decided to start smoking even MORE than I already do! I'M LOVIN' IT.
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2009-07-03 17:46:43 EDT (#)
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Congrats on your decision, but I've found that unless you have a good enough reason, you're pretty well guaranteed to fall off the wagon. Mine was health-related, so I know that even if I wanted to, I can't start again. No "I'm stressed, I'll just buy a small pack and then quit next week.", No "Just when I'm drinking", and absolutely no "Can I steal a drag?" I know that if I have a drag, it'll turn into a whole cigarette, that'll turn into a pack, then into a carton and I've lost.
Basically when I got the word from my doctor, I decided the party was over, bought patches and quit as soon as I finished what was left of my pack. That was 2 1/2 years ago. The physical addiction is gone, but the psychological one is still there somewhat. There are times I'd like one, but it's little more than a passing fancy. It does get easier.
Anyhow, the point to this long-winded review is to find your reason, make it a good one and truly believe it.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-07-03 15:48:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have my opinions of stop aids based on their efficacy, not on how they score you on weakness. An unfortunate symptom of an addiction is some level of what people might consider weakness but that doesn't matter. While it certainly can feel good when you fight something without using supplements to do it, when you're really, truly ready to deal with an addiction, it isn't ultimately about how you look or the principle of whether you did it all by yourself or any other philosophical standard. It's about whether or not you've chosen the right way for you so that you STOP. If you shun a patch or something just because it feels like cheating but then you continue to smoke, then the joke is on you, not on the people who thought you were weak. So if your thing is this cool, weird Asian thing, so be it. Personally though, like scourge, when I was finally successful, it was without any of that stuff. It forced me to deal with all the challenges in a way I could have avoided if I used stop aids. But whatever floats your boat.
Submitted by sandmantate (user info) at 2009-07-03 15:19:09 EDT (#)
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Hey man, if it lets you quit, then do it. Everyone deals with their addictions differently, some turn to faith, some to substitutes, and some can go cold turkey. If you are making an honest attempt to research alternatives then I don't feel like you are being weak willed.
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2009-07-03 15:12:33 EDT (#)
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Some lady tried to pitch these things to me once at one of those mall kiosks. She said they help you quit, but when I went to the website and looked up electronic cigarettes, it said the opposite.
By no means is this a scientifically proven opinion, but I feel like they would be healthier simply because you're inhaling steam rather than smoke.
Plus, when you pull one out and start smoking in a no-smoking facility, and someone tries to tell you to put it out, you can inform him/her that it is not an actual cigarette, instantly giving you a smug sense of superiority.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2009-07-03 14:50:18 EDT (#)
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Ah, Foofles. Ubersite's answer to Don Knotts.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:49:17 EDT (#)
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....You just said exactly what I said.
If you could stop being so painfully embarrassing, it would be great.
Actually if you could stop talking.
and typing.
Breathing too, if you wouldn't mind.
Thanks!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:47:30 EDT (#)
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also, lol @ katy
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:46:50 EDT (#)
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the only way to quit is to just quit. i smoked a pack to a pack and a half a day for almost 12 years. i decided i wanted to be healthier, and i stopped.
dicking around with shit like this, or gum, or patches, or only smoking when you're drinking (always for you), or just after meals (very often for you), or just after sex (probs not too much for you, sorry), is to admit a lack of strength and resolve.
it sounds trite, but what is stronger, your mind/character/whatever or your addictions?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:37:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:05:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:34:22 EDT (#)
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Cigarettes = pussy
E- cigarettes = Fleshlight.
Poor substitute.
:D
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Seriously, shut the fuck up.
Please?
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The author thought it was funny. Everyone thinks you are a fool. Please stfu, little boy.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:17:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:25:30 EDT (#)
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Sacrilicious - - You can get the cartridges in 4 different nicotine level doses. High, medium, low and not-the-fuck-at-all. I figure this is the best way to ween me off the nicotine while still having something in my hand. ALSO, since ONE cartridge last about as long as 75 cigarettes, you actually don't "smoke" as much. Most people smoke a hole cigarette, cause it's a 'serving size.'
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carry a pen in your hand. you say you're a writer :)
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:16:42 EDT (#)
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And below that one aswell.
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:16:04 EDT (#)
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n00b below.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:13:44 EDT (#)
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good luck, eh.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-07-03 13:05:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:34:22 EDT (#)
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Cigarettes = pussy
E- cigarettes = Fleshlight.
Poor substitute.
:D
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Seriously, shut the fuck up.
Please?
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-07-03 12:59:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
When you quit smoking, your weight will go up. What does that cost?
When you quit smoking, You will become the nervous trainwreck you was before you started.
When you quit smoking, How will you look cool in you local disco?
When you quit smoking, how will your target market recognize your socialy incompatible concepts in your stories ? (I will rethink that one)
i need a smoke.brb
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2009-07-03 12:43:18 EDT (#)
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Haha, I have a mental image of all the cool kids in highschool puffing away on their e ciggies. Apple could release their version... THE I CIG. How ridiculous just give up you weak minded fools.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-07-03 12:35:03 EDT (#)
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I quit smoking in 1986 because it cost too much. These days my habit would be about the same amount every year as the increase in my life insurance premium would be if I still smoked. Double savings right there.
The shape, function, and light at the end are designed to give you the psychological clues that your drug is about to be administered: you involve your touch sense (fingers and lips) in getting the drug and the light glows when you draw (as does the coal) to give you the visual reinforcement. The makes of these things know all the things that smoking involves, and have tried to copy as many as possible while eliminating the actual smoke that might offend easily offended others or violate some stupid law. The practical upshot is that you get your drug without wasting any or getting it on other people, but you pay a lot more to do it.
My sister is using this one http://www.truevapor.com She owns a restaurant and can't smoke while working. She bought it to quit smoking and says this about it: she now smokes fewer cigarettes when not working, but she hits that thing all day while in the restaurant so she ends up with more nicotine in her system than she had before. It does not help you to quit smoking, it in fact enables you to get your drug in a more expensive form more often. She says she's going to stop buying cigarettes and cut down the juice dose to zero, and I'm sure she will do all that eventually. One way or the other.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:37:23 EDT (#)
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If at all possible you should get one without that stupid red light, because that's just silly.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:36:52 EDT (#)
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I found out about those things while doing a "Secondary Plant Product" project on nicotine. I made a powerpoint presentation about how great nicotine is, it's pretty great, Jesus is riding a dinosaur in it. Also, Obama, Johnny Cash, Clint Eastwood, and others make appearances.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:34:59 EDT (#)
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HAHAHA...
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:34:22 EDT (#)
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Cigarettes = pussy
E- cigarettes = Fleshlight.
Poor substitute.
:D
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:29:02 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:26:53 EDT (#)
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If you can get cigarettes for about $2 a pack, think yourself lucky. A pack of 20 cigarettes is nearly £6 here in the UK.
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No, no... $6 is how much a regular pack of cigarettes cost here in the States.
$2 is how much these weird little filtered menthol CIGARS costs.
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:26:53 EDT (#)
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Sounds like a flashier version of the nicorette inhalator.
BUT WHAT WRONG WITH REAL CIGARETTES U FAG LOLZER?!?!?!?
Everyone knows that smoking is harmless, and makes you look well cool. At least that's what my tobacconist tells me.
If you can get cigarettes for about $2 a pack, think yourself lucky. A pack of 20 cigarettes is nearly £6 here in the UK.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:25:40 EDT (#)
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re:my masturbation, i have been noting down recently, my best time of day, how weather affects me etc etc it makes for a highly useful spreadsheet.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:25:30 EDT (#)
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Sacrilicious - - You can get the cartridges in 4 different nicotine level doses. High, medium, low and not-the-fuck-at-all. I figure this is the best way to ween me off the nicotine while still having something in my hand. ALSO, since ONE cartridge last about as long as 75 cigarettes, you actually don't "smoke" as much. Most people smoke a hole cigarette, cause it's a 'serving size.'
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:24:26 EDT (#)
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i hate lady ga ga!
frilly dresses, well, ok , so long as they are velvety soft.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:23:29 EDT (#)
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this looks like a fucking tampon.
if you want to save on cigarettes, try smoking less. but for that you have to be busy. when i'm between contracts i smoke non-stop. but when i work, i smoke 2-3 cigarettes a day.
i know you "can't" work, but try finding something that doesn't include sitting next to an ashtray.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:23:03 EDT (#)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:21:46 EDT (#)
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No, to me EI isn't exactly GAY. Not in the "spreading open an eager ripe anal cavity, ready to have it violated again & again by thrusting cock," kinda gay. Emission is more, like, wearing frilly dresses and dancing to Lady GaGa remixes while sipping on gin and masturbating furiously to pictures of the Queen Mum.
Danger is that first kinda guy...
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:21:42 EDT (#)
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'still not all that healthy' LOL
Technologically, The invention is very cool if it actually works. So..are you considering quitting smoking or just looking to save money? 'Cause really..even if you're going to use nicotine replacement (in my experience, it only prolongs and segments the overcoming of the addiction) I always thought it was a bad idea to use quitting aids that still mimic the act of smoking. The first change that comes along with quitting smoking is, you know..not having a smoke in your hand.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:17:14 EDT (#)
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your lucky batty man d_r isn't around, this place would be gayer than elton johns yellow y fronts
Submitted by w_t_a_y_s_t_r_m (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:17:13 EDT (#)
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Sodomy hell?
Is there a sodomy heaven, because that kinda sounds like hell too
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:17:03 EDT (#)
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Well, we allow ONE sodomite like EI or D_R in here, and the place goes straight to hell...
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:13:00 EDT (#)
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Watch it! EI starting in with shoving things up his ass again.
Your post just went to sodomy hell, KK. Sorry.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:09:32 EDT (#)
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I don't doubt that in the least...
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-07-03 11:07:53 EDT (#)
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i shoved one up my ass and it tasted like liquorice