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Well hello stoopid. So you want to smoke again eh. You gave up in 1997 for SEVEN years and went back. You didn't need to did you? You'd mastered it and you used some dumb ass excuses for starting again. Then you quit on 22/8/19 and did really well. You'd gotten over the worst of it and now you want to cave in using some idiotic reasoning again. While you're at it why not sniff some glue as well for an extra kick and drink a couple of litres of vodka a day to boot. Do you really want to lose a limb for that stuff? Ok, lecture to self over. Be good to yourself and just don't do it. There's no need, it's an addiction not a pleasure. When the rush of the first cig has gone, you're just spending a fortune and making yourself ill just to feel normal. The rush won't happen again. Don't forget what motivated you on 22/8/19 and don't forget how listless you were through lack of oxygen. Don't favour carbon monoxide over the good stuff. Don't forget you've seen the ultimate effects of carbon monoxide many many times. Stay strong. Good luck, Phil (the non smoker)

What are the best looking cars from the past and now in your opinion? Mine are both jaguars coincidentally - the current Ftype R and the old e type.

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My wife is the same. I don't think it can be forced, they just have to see the light in their own time.

See, It's true, I just knew it!

It was an 8 inch reflector and cost about £1000. The camera, which didn't look at all like a SLR, cost about £500 and that's the only place you can use it, on a telescope. Those examples were my first half dozen attempts after buying the set up. I have an astronomy book from the 50's and my photos are actually better than those in the book. That is not a testament to me by any means, it's a testament to the advancement of technology. Those guys in the fifties who compiled the book were brilliant and at the top of their game and used very expensive equipment. I am just an average chap with average abilities but our technology is enabled us all to achieve wonderful results.

I've watched Man vs Food lots of times and I get the impression that the US is actually built on a great big slab of beef. Much respect to the founding fathers on that by the way. I have a question. Because of your great beef scoffing tradition, it must be so plentiful as to be quite inexpensive. So, how much does a typical half pound rib eye steak cost at the butcher's or supermarket? Rib eye is my favourite, mmmmmmm.

Yes, but to avoid panic amongst the populace, a la Orson Wells, I will officially deny it and have a cover up! Then folks can start conspiracy theories.

I have just sent an e-mail thanking her and when I go back in six months I'll take her a gift.

Very careful thought, that's all you will eat forever on this fantasy island. It reminds me of an old western movie where a group of guys set out across the desert and one of them filled his canteen with whisky. The others warned him but he loved the stuff and wouldn't listen. Within a few miles he was begging for water.

I've always loved astronomy so I got a couple of telescopes and camera and managed to snap these. I only did it for a couple of years because it was such a faff to set up etc. I still like the subject but I lost my mojo for actually taking part in it. I was quite pleased with the results though. The one of the Sun was done with a dedicated scope. If I ever started again I think I'd just image the Sun, it was a lot easier to set up.

I received a text asking me to make an appointment to see the doc. I expected this because I went to have the circulation in my leg tested on the 22/8/19 and it had got worse. It will be for the doc to persuade me to quit smoking I'm sure so I'm very much looking forward to saying that I quit on the 23rd. I'll be very proud to say that.

Maybe this should have been in the Socializing forum. If someone wants to move it, feel free.

Here are the rules of this poser just for fun. So, you're alone on a desert island and everything is fine regarding your well being. However, you can only eat the same meal for the rest of your life. It will be brought to you perfectly prepared to your liking whenever you desire it. You are allowed a standard size dinner plate and one side. Think carefully now, this is forever. I think mine would be a full English breakfast with a side of white sliced - bread toast. What's your choice?

My quit is only a couple of weeks old so some will remember my introductory post but here is a reminder. I've suffered from poor circulation in my right leg for a few years knowing full well that it was due to smoking. However, my latest test showed a move from 80% efficiently down to 70%. The particular nurse who did the test didn't beat about the bush and said I could eventually lose my leg if I didn't quit. Other medics have told me of the dangers before but she had a manner and piercing gaze that finally made me see sense. I wasn't too keen on her at the time because she was quite brusque and not like the previous ones but I must thank her though as I really needed that kind of approach. A big kick up the ass it was and much appreciated.

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I posted elsewhere about when I gave up in 1997 and that reminded me of how I managed to do that way back then. It was with the help of Allen Carr's book 'Easy way to stop smoking.' What he convinced me about was that smoking isn't a pleasure, it's just pure addiction overlaid with the fantasy that it is an actual enjoyable thing to do such as eating or drinking a fine wine. This was a big moment when I realised this because smokers convince themselves that it is a bona fide, stand alone pleasure. I can't remember if this was in the book or I've thought it up but none of us would look at a glue - sniffer on the street and be jealous and think we're missing out on a pleasure. No, we'd see it for what it is, a harmful addiction to a horrible substance. That's what smoking is, nothing else. People who have never smoked don't envy those that do.

I'm glad I have that experience as a warning against complacency. Also, at least my body had a rest for those seven years.

In 1997 I quit for seven years and then started again. We all know it's like being an alcoholic in that one puff and we're back to square one and my story proves it. My delusional thinking when I started again went like this. My friends and I went on a mini trip to Poland so I thought that it didn't really count as real smoking because I was abroad and not at home, which would constitute real smoking obviously Of course, because it wasn't real, I would easily quit again the moment I arrived back in the UK. Oh, when I meant back in the UK I didn't include when back at Manchester airport because that's sort of still half abroad isn't it? So when I got back home I was full of good intent for a few hours but because it was still the same day as when we were in Poland, I might as well carry on just for the day and stop tomorrow as I was still sort of over there in my mind because I'd left only a few hours previously. I will definitely give up tomorrow, I told myself. Well, tomorrow took an awful long time to arrive. It arrived on the 22nd August 2019.

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I just did a new one again but I cut and pasted the symbols rather than the banner. I know someone earlier said the opposite worked for them.

I've noticed a very insidious trick that the NM uses. Prior to quitting, the environment seemed full of quit advice such as literature at pharmacies, doctors surgeries etc. Now that I've quit, the NM seems to have sneaked around and removed a lot of it. Honestly, the day after I quit, my chemist's little health advice table was lacking in the usual stop smoking advice leaflets. Similarly with my doctor's surgery. To rub it in the NM has got into my sister's mind. Being an ex nurse she was always banging on about why I should quit but just before I did, I mentioned maybe giving up and she said, "Well, they're your lungs, it's nothing to do with me." I couldn't believe it. The moral of the tale folks is that the demon will never go away, it just adapts and morphs into an even more devilish entity. I just say, "Get thee behind me Nico Monster, I'm a NOPE guy."