Hi guys and Girls,
This is an unashamed whoop for joy post from your favourite Mad Englishman......who despite himself has nailed it so far! The stats might be slightly different to the SSC ones as they are off my iPhone app (it worked for me but other favours available).
So what has been the upside?
So much money has been saved that there is now a Suzuki SV650 motorcycle sitting in the garage that I use when the sun is shining and to take my gorgeous wife to rock concerts at an outdoor arena in the heart of Sherwood Forest in the summer. Rock on Robin Hood!
I can now afford the tickets for the Rock Concerts as well!
I can taste food! That of course means that I eat more of it and am slightly larger than when I stopped smoking my evil cigar nicotine delivery systems.
I can also taste wine...........so there is a collection of fine wine in the cellar (also funded by my former contributions to the purveyors of tubes with a fire at one end and a fool at the other, and of course to Her Majesty's Government in the form of tax........lots of tax, in fact a shed load of tax!).
I can breathe............OK, I smoked heavily for 40 years so have undeniably done some permanent damage but there has been a huge improvement and I can carry on hill walking with friends without nearly expiring half way up a modest hill.
No cough! A very strange feeling after nearly 40 years of coughing. My wife used to find me in the supermarket by following the cough.
I don't stink, well, not of dirty filthy ashtrays, stale smoke and nicotine!
Tremendous pride in what I have managed to do after several failed attempts, and I can place my hand on my heart and say with confidence that I am done with nicotine. The main reason for that bold statement (especially after starting again once after over two years of stopping) is that I now recognise that I was having to deal with a drug addiction. Knowledge is power and so is the support that you get form the people on this site (and that means you as well Ashley!).
Brent, the Mad Englishman.............opps! Sorry, in the interests of providing a fair and balanced view, please scroll down for my list of the downsides to stopping smoking.....
Keep going
