[Jennifer]

There’s no stigma in eating African-American foods that I know of and no one I know has ever mentioned any to me; in fact, I don’t really know what these traditional foods are… I just eat what I like. I would love to try greens but don’t know how to cook them, however I don’t like sweet potatoes at all. Your co-worker sounds like a picky eater as are many other people.

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Name : Jennifer, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : San Jose, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : software engineer, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Jennifer]

When you are addicted to smoking, you are just in the habit of lighting up and don’t really notice that much until you haven’t had a cigarette for a while. It’s like some people’s ‘morning cup of coffee’ habit, but much worse. You get into the habit of having one ‘first thing upon waking’, ‘right after breakfast’, ‘on the way to work’, ‘when you first get to work’… it goes on all day, till ‘last one before bed’. It’s also an ‘aquired’ taste… cigarettes taste great after you’ve gotten into the habit. If I had a puff now, after 5 years of not smoking, it would taste terrible. When you don’t have one for a while, you get this intense urge to smoke. People get a buzz similar to drinking coffee. It increases your metabolism, etc., so they will light up just to get the nicotine into their system. It is so hard to quit because you are battling a constant urge to smoke. I’ve heard it’s worse than quitting heroin. It goes on for days like this, and you can’t think of anything else. When I quit, I couldn’t even go for a few minutes without craving one. Eventually, like after a YEAR, the cravings kind of faded away. And it’s very easy to get tempted into restarting… even smelling someone’s cigarette can make me think about how nice it would be to have one. When I quit the first time, it only took a couple of cigarettes to get me hooked again. I used to smoke a minimum of a pack a day since I was about 14… and smoked for about 15 years. The patch and gum work pretty good… but they keep the nicotine in your system (this is the addictive substance…imo); the trick is to get it completely out of your body and wean yourself off of it.

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Name : Jennifer, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : San Jose, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : software engineer, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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