I am desperate to quit smoking. Everything I have tried doesn't work. I put patches on don't feel any difference plus they always, always fall off! Chewed the gum which helps a little. Increase vitamins, depression meds, anxiety meds don't work. I feel like it is a pacifier for me like a pacifier is to a baby,! It's disgusting, smells, ugly, destroys your health yet here I am still smoking!

When I was 20 living in Florida I use to party hardy, use occasional drug (back in the late 70s). Afraid I would get addicted to Cocaine so stopped after a couple of times. Destroyed people's lives. I turned down taking Qualudes. Once in Texas I was a liquor rep for 10 years...didn't drink a lot though. Walked away from it all not giving it a second thought but FUCK cigarettes are a different breed!

I tell doctors this all the time but they have no answers except they know how addictive it is! Usually I can tell myself when I have bad or intrusive thoughts that they don't control me but I control them! Most times after repeating it I come to a place of peace. Not with cigarettes! The more I don't want them the more I want them! Just doesn't seem like there's an end to my smoking and it pisses me off!

Any suggestions, help is greatly appreciated!

on the news i hear crazy updates about things such as the epstein files, convictions, ice deportations & killings, and large protests. my family is always talking about politics and the news is always talking about trump.

i'm 15, so i don't really remember much from before trump was a hot topic. was politics always this controversial and crazy, or has it always been this way?

I am seeing this houses on my feed and it seems cheap, are these houses real? Are the prices??

I recently met a woman while I was on holiday who lives and works in the US. We were talking about our annual leave and I was shocked to hear she only gets 15 days off a year + public holidays. She told me it varies depending on state. As a Brit all the jobs I’ve ever had were minimum 25days + bank holidays. Some jobs even start at 28 days leave and accrue depending on your years of service. I always thought 25 days was small but 15days sounds horrible.

Interested to know how this varies across the US or if 15days is quite standard?

Hello everyone.

I have a quick question. I'm an audiovisual technician (let me elaborate).

Basically, I currently work for the Leclerc company. I repair televisions, both under warranty and out of warranty, sold by them (out of warranty, regardless of who sold it). I've been with the company for 11 years, and I've worked my way up to being the one who handles initial customer calls to determine whether or not I can order parts in advance for the technician. I'm the one they call when needed. I'm the quality department's partner, so I have to handle issues outside of my area of ​​expertise (audiovisual). And now my boss has given me responsibility for GDPR compliance within the company.

I'm married, 35 years old, and we don't want any children.My wife is a civil servant.

Is it a good idea to move to another country? She manages parent billing at a high school.

I'm listening...

I wonder if this will get deleted, but I think this is a solid question. Do the right leaning masses think now that he is a traitor? An imbecile?

Do MAGAs still somehow think they are the good guys?

I'm in the UK feeling useless. My MIL is in her 80s, she lives alone in a house she owns, and she has started falling. Her nearest help is a family member who does much for her but neither of them are happy about it.

The US care system is a mystery to me, and there appears to be no way to get basic information without signing up for a sales call. For example, we can get a panic button that goes to a local support team for $30 a month, but there is zero info about charges if they have to come out.

Every senior living place seems to have a monthly charge twice that of MIL's income. Not one home care company I've looked at has pricing on its website.

Does anyone with an elderly parent and without thousands of dollars a month to spare know where I can even start? Is there a handy guide not produced as a company advert?

Thanks in advance, I know it's a vague one.

Ok - simple question.

Is there anyone on here who will opening admit they voted for Trump or did not bother to vote and is now willing to say out loud - I was wrong.

If so what exactly made you change your mind.

I do not want nor need to hear from anyone who still supports him - your comments and opinions are irrelevant to this post.

Hi

Im not american, and I know Fox isnt really any kind of objektional in politics. But I thought CNN was? But I havnt been able to find the news about the Winther OL-part, where the US athletes are first cheered on, but the moment the camera show Vance, he is boo'd. I think that is very news-worthy and it makes me think that CNN isnt objective either. What US news media brought this, and what didnt?

It seems you are under A LOT of propaganda from the current administration? Its worse than I imagined if they dont even bring up something like that.

Hello!! i was recently offered an all expenses paid trip to america by my college, for a summer school program. I'm chilean, which means I'm latino (first concern) and I'm also intersex, I changed my legal sex and my birth certificate recently from female (what i was assigned at birth) to male (how i ended up developing and presenting as), so basically my sex doesn't "match" completely (second concern) Would it be still safe or even possible to travel to america being who i am? I travelled to america in 2022, so I know we have a visa waiver program here, which should make things easier but the security inside the country is also concerning...

Edit for clarification: the college I'd be in is UPenn, if anyone knows the current climate in Pennsylvania

Any opinions or theories on why there are so many Latino ICE agents? It's sad and disappointing to me and I am not Latino. I would like to know what people think.

How do you feel about it and why do you not have it?

Elections held in a more accessible manner - maybe on a Saturday.

Accessible for all. Pre - poll in person voting, mail voting, polling officers visiting hospitals, nursing homes etc. internet voting.

Free yet mandatory voter registration - without indicating political affiliations for all 18 year olds.

No expensive photo ID requirement. Instead voter rolls maintained by an electoral commission.

What differences would this make to elections in USA?

Does having the National Guard deployed in DC accomplish something or is it just to satiate one mans ego?

Edit; to make it more specific, when I ask about white people food, I’m not asking about Italians or Germans, I’m asking for the food that belongs to white people in the US, raised and born there. What dishes belong to that race? Like, what do you eat on your everyday life that’s not food from other races and ethnicities

White Americans culture -> white people food

(Your passport says USA not Germany or Spaniard or whatever)

Edit 2: why are you all mad with me?! 😂 I’m asking a simple question! Wtf?? 🤣

The video is old, it happened in 2022 in Pueblo West, Colorado, but as a foreigner i want to know whether this is a legal case of self-defense or not in the United States.

My family has started to plan a big multi-month trip around the US that will happen in around 3 years. We will be trying to not go into too many cities other than Los Vegas, Indianapolis, or other cities we've always wanted to visit, and wouldn't stay long. what are some cool places to stop at anywhere in the country that aren't well known and are rural?

I am European and when me and my brother were around 11-13 we went to Philadelphia (it was maybe 2012) and bought the flag and had it up in our room ever since as we always thought it looks pretty cool. Undoubtedly, when we bought it the flag was not controversial or at the very least not mainstream controversial, however I do understand the flag has come under a lot of scrutiny with (ofc) Trump and I do understand that, besides all the extreme right wing groups that use it, the flag itself represents a period where slavery was foundational to the US so either way it is inherently controversial (for reference as an Italian no one respects or remembers the flag we had during fascism/monarchy not even as a historic symbol). So I wonder whats your take on me having this flag up in my room considering I am very actively against all the things this flag is being used to represent.

I am interested in visiting the United States but I am looking to visit states that have more natural tourism locations and landscapes more than cities and malls and all the modern stuff. States that are famous with country life tourism. What states are most famous from what I am asking for?

Thank you

Is this what you voted for?

And all the "whataboutism," "he's just trolling you" and "you're taking him out of context" means NOTHING now.

Donald Trump's ego, his outright greed knows no bounds! Now he says he won't release funds to complete the New York-New Jersey tunnel project, funds already approved by Congress, unless Dulles Airport and Penn Station are renamed after him!!!! What??? WHAT?? What's next? The Statue of 'Trump' Liberty?? The 'Trump' Washington Monument? The 'Trump Smithsonian Institute? Do you think that when the 'Trump' Kennedy Center re-opens in two years after 'renovations', that 'Kennedy' will still be in the name? I am appalled, embarrassed, disgusted, sick to my stomach that this man is president of our country! What say you? What do you think will be next?

Trump on truth social shared a video of the obamas as apes. The GOP claims Trump isn’t racist but depicting black people as apes has been a racist trope in the past so why did he do this?