ITR DEPARTMENT OF HAPPINESSEDNESS AND EMOTOMBOTOTIVATION CUSTOMER REASEARCH POLL

also we were out of polls to vote in, which leads to listlessness, sometimes gastrointestinal uncertainty

It's wrong that I perk up at the phrase "gastrointestinal uncertainty," isn't it.

It's a little wrong.

Hey, it's only so interesting to practice assessing my perfectly healthy husband and kids. I'd like to hear what I'm supposed to listen for that IS NOT healthy!

Also, you know things have gotten out of hand when you're practicing assessing your 9 year old and he pipes up with, "Mom, you forgot to provide a privacy curtain!"

Jeff and FB are within driving distance! I'm sure they'd let you shove marmosets up their asses listen to their bowel sounds.

DAN IS CORRECT PLEASE CHOOSE BETWEEN OPTION JEFF AND OPTION FB

NO OTHER OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

so fucking tired

Here's your marmoset, John: http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/752/261371.JPG

Okay, that thing looks completely vicious.

I'll have you know that I just asked my ONE smoking friend in town if she would let me listen to her lungs.

It's so painfully clear that I have no life.

sara, lxy and i will let you listen to our lungs

Awwww. Thanks guys!

STAY AWAY FROM MY LUNGS LADY

John, people can hear your lungs from other cities.

if god had intended for you to listen to my lungs, he would have created adam and emphysema

I CAN HEAR YOU WHEEZING FROM NORTHFIELD, JOHN

i just got that allen carr book 'the easy way to stop smoking'... let's see just how 'easy' this is...

You should live blog it, obv.

Also, wouldn't the "easy" way be to try a prescription med like Chantix? Or is that not available in NZ...?

TBH there is no easy way to stop lacking the gene sequences in "normal" people that allow you to give a shit about empirically acquired data when making decisions

http://books.google.com/books?id=FfTVDY-zrCoC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=smokers+lack+decision&source=web&ots=_-WEJrfeeJ&sig=N3IQeD-z0J8JQhchWM0b2meJWnI&hl=en

http://neuro.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu/?sct=gfaculty&prf=46

Chiu*, PH, Lohrenz*, TM, Montague, PR (in press). Smokers’ brains compute but ignore a fictive error signal in a sequential investment task. Nature Neuroscience.

jesus christ tombot

breaking the rules

^^^^ I know TH smokes and I am going to have to assume his friend "Mike" in the thread question does as well

tombot, I've only given those a cursory glance, but it looks like they address starting/becoming addicted more than quitting...? (xpost to first two; I can't keep up!)

But yeah - you can't change your GENES, it's true.

well, we're still a long way off from identifying specific gene sequences involved in addiction - and based on data there appear to be many different subsets of addictive behaviors, though tobacco smoking seems to be associated with just about everything else.

The Chiu paper is really interesting to me because it implies that a major aspect of addiction is an inability to take feedback and apply it in decision making.

I'm not saying Ruby can't quit smoking! But that book does help explain why so many ex-smokers turn into sanctimonious dickheads

The only ex-smokers I know are okay. My Dad, for example, is not sanctimonious at all.

Okay, really the only sanctimonious people I know are the ones who have Gotten Religion in a big way and who mention Jesus in every paragraph of their Xmas letters.

Sara stop talking bad about me because i am so sweet on jesus

John and Jesus sitting in a tree...

I feel dirty now.

when did the secret wordsearch in the thread title arrive?

No idea, but if you hadn't pointed it out I probably would never have noticed it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

HEY LISTEN UP

"TURN THAT GRIMACE UPSIDEDOWNWAYS, A SMILE IS THE BEST UMBRELLA DESPITE THE FACT THAT A CAUTIOUS THINKER KNOWS THIS IS PATENTLY UNTRUE" is what that used to say

ILX fights my floridity at every turn

So it's eating parts of long sentences in polls now?! That seems odd.

Must by HUNGRY.

Proceed with caution.

THIS IS PA

http://z.about.com/d/comicbooks/1/7/8/D/FCJG300-0088.jpg

xpost This is Pennsylvania?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060712.jpg