El Bandito

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I see a couple of threads here.. You and La Bandita on "The Change" Me and Mr66 on "Midlife Crisis - Sportscar choices" Quick - lets set up a website! :ph34r:

Joe - Powerful story. Thank you for sharing it. I was just starting a thread about quitting as you were posting this. Great minds think alike..... :) Or Fools seldom differ :( One of the two!

I have smoked for 30 years, Man and Boy. I started at 13 years old. Usual stuff - I wanted to be cool, grown up. I quickly got into my stride - comfortably putting away 2, 3 packs a day throughout my twenties and thirties. I had a couple of goes at quitting - the usual stuff - girlfriends nagging, a health scare or two. A couple of times I was quit for months at a time. Then, change of girlfriend or emotional trauma and I was back to a pack a day and more. In the back of my mind, I knew that I was a smoker for ever. My family all smoked. Some people are non-smokers who smoke - and some are proper smokers. I am a proper smoker. A cigarette looks great in my hand. It suits me. Bad cold? I can smoke through it. Freezing outside - I can go out in a tee shirt - a man has got to smoke. As I moved into my 40s, it was getting harder to be a smoker. Bans everywhere. Hell, I didn't even smoke in my house! But quit? Nah - it's too late for me. I'm a proper smoker. I have a stressful job - and need to have a smoke. ...... UTTER UTTER NONSENSE Nobody is a proper smoker. Nobody looks good with a cigarette. They just look addicted. Nobody suits a cigarette. Cigarettes cause stress - not relieve it. There are many many way ways to quit smoking. Information on pretty much all of those ways can be found around here. Here you will also find people just like you - people who quit years ago, months ago, weeks ago, yesterday. We help each other. It's what we do. So - if you are here for the first time, are just having a browse, or believe that you can't quit - because you are a 'proper smoker' - do yourself a favour read some more. Two final things. 1. Every successful quit starts just like yours. Decide to quit. Believe - And you will 2. I'm a proper non-smoker. Check my signature below... Anyone can quit. Why not do it?

Jackie! Brilliant. The barrier is this: 1. We know that nicotine is long gone - it is not that causing the crave. 2. It is our mind. 3. Do you want to smoke? - No. It is therefore illogical to crave for something you don't want. Simples! You are the boss Jackie.

January I smoked 4 cartons...

Hormones eh? Ha! La Bandita feels scared, anxious, aches and pains, teary...then we have lunch! The fairer sex definitely get a raw deal here...I mean La Bandita gets all that...I just get an urge to buy an inappropriate sports car...doesn't seem fair to me.. On the good side - La B doesn't think about smoking at all - she is too worried that her head is going to fall off... :o

TPAM is Barb - Only Babs online...

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Any lurkers out there - worried about quitting? Will you fail? Will you feel terrible? Don't worry! No you won't. Now you will feel fantastic! Jump in - read, post...it will save your life....

TPAB takes no nonsense

Weekends - about 4 hours. Everybody takes it very seriously! Weekday - 2.5 to 3 depending on "traffic"

Sgt B You remind me of a Running man I knew. :D

bright light

RUN!

Tracey! Tracey! Very slowly...walk towards me Tracey...walk towards the light... I'm getting you out of here...trust me...walk towards the light.. ready? ready?

This is what I meant - I hope....

Hmmm - Clearly need to work on my tech skills One word. FREEDOM!

Shhhhh! Don't tell Bakon you are curvy! He will stalk you! :D

Evelyn, you go for it. If your faith is a help to you, then fantastic. That is not offensive. Try to keep relaxed, control your breathing and sip your tea. Enjoy your sci-fi!

This is why you are fit and shapely while I have my own micro-climate....

More Golf this morning. 8.5 miles pushing my clubs. And played the occasional decent golf shot too!