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Never seen the videos. The book does cover some of the usual stuff we all know but it focuses on some other areas that are nothing to do with risks to health. It has an approach though it that if followed kind of puts your head in a more focused place. It is way more than just the usual scare tactic rubbish. Look, it is just a book...but it's cheap and worth a go, nah ? What harm could it do. I think if you start with a "yeah, definitely do wanna stop now", it could help because its more than the preaching dross.
 
Sir Walter Raleigh, the treacherous man whom made smoking in popular in court in the 1600s, and introducing the first tobacco and potato products, even though they were already known of via the Spanish and explorers like Christopher Columbus many years earlier, was born in Hayes Barton, Devon in around 1552. He led a highly sinful but somewhat scholarly life, henceforth notorious for his two unsuccessful expeditions to search for El Dorado, the fabled Golden Land situated somewhere at the mouth of the Orinoco river in Venezuela. His treachery escalated when in 1603 he was accused of high treason after plotting against King James I of England and VI of Scotland and received the death sentence but this was reduced to life imprisonment where he spent the next 12 years in the Tower of London where he wrote his first volume of History Of The World in 1614, released in 1616 to carry out another unsuccessful expedition to find El Dorado and defied the King's instructions by attacking the Spanish. On his return to England, his death sentence was reinstated and his execution carried out on the 29th October 1618. He was the atrocious man who, I believe was responsible for pioneering tobacco industrialisation and commercialism, amongst others, in our country, by initially causing smoking to be made popular in court which later spread to the wider 1600s community. He even offended King James I's predecessor Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
 
Good Morning, my lovely friends on the Type 2 Life thread of the http://www.diabetes.co.uk Forum at 8:10 Ante Meridian British Summer Time, today, Wednesday 4th October 2017 in the Common Era of Creation, Anno Domini, in the Year Of Our Lord,

I've just administered my 20 Microgramme Lixisenatide Glucagon-Like Peptide Incretin Mimetic subcutaneous injection and the following prescriptive medications:-

* 10 Milligrammes of Ramipril (Anti-Hypertensive Capsule)
* Amlodipine 10 Milligrammes (Anti-Hypertensive Tablet)
* Bendroflumethiazide 2.5 Milligrammes (Diuretic Tablet with anti-hypertensive properties)
* 1000 Milligrammes Metformin Hydrochloride (Anti-Hyperglycaemic Tablet)
* 200 Milligrammes of Tegretol/Carbamazepine (A prolonged-release Mood Stabiliser)
* 400 Microgrammes of Tamsulosin Hydrochloride (Urine-Stimulating Capsule for Urinary Retention)

My Blood Glucose Reading this morning is 6.8 Millimoles Per Litre.

Lots of Love to you all in fond friendship from Johnny xXx.
 
pleinster said:
@Guzzler, that Easy Way book by Allen Carr is amazing...really...check it out...and keep smoking while you're reading it. Really.
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I've read that - it is an excellent book. But, like all the other tools to help you quit, it's only going to work if you really want to do it. That's the No 1 key to success, nothing else is going to work without it. And once you have that key, quitting isn't really that hard.
 
Wow, that's really interesting, Johnny - I'd heard of Raleigh, of course, but I didn't know all that. Is history a topic which really interests you? I used to find it really boring when I was at school, but I love it now.
 
Busy day today! Had a flu jab in the morning, busy work day and then blood donation in the evening

Came home to find that we are in the midst of a minor invasion of carpet beetle larvae (I presume). Spent the rest of the evening pulling up furniture, bleaching the floor and putting ant powder down along the skirting boards. So annoying! Managed to get about half the flat done tonight, but will need to do it tomorrow too I'd imagine. The little buggers are tenacious
 

I agree. Personally, I stopped when I chose to stop giving money to greedy, legal but lethal drug dealers (ie. tobacco companies) and when I decided to stop myself from denying that cigarettes were NOT good for stress, concentration or any of the other things people use as excuses and that they are actually...put simply...nicotine delivery systems. I don't use heroin..why use nicotine ? I decided...I focused on that as I smoked my last cigarette, and when I stubbed it out...I stubbed out a waste of my time, money and health. I have never missed it since...not for a second.
 
Good Morning, my lovely friends on the Type 2 Life thread of http://www.diabetes.co.uk at 10:01 Ante Meridian British Summer Time on Tuesday 5th October in 2017 in the Common Era of the Father in Heaven's Creation, Anno Domini, In The Year Of Our Lord,

I had a relatively good, healthy LCHF Full English Breakfast that my best friend Lee treated me to today At Tulse Hill Cafe, South West London with minimal Bubble and Squeak made with more vegetables than potato, 2 slices of Black Pudding, 2 Rashers of Bacon, 1 portion of chunkily-cut mushrooms, 1 slice of fried bread, 1 fried egg and 1 small portion of baked beans. In spite of this very good-for-my-diabetes meal, I did have 2 teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar in my Cafe Latte which was made with compressed steam and hot milk. I also when I got home drank 1 mug of instant coffee, with a dash of full cream milk and 2 teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar. But at least I ate LCHF! My blood glucose, now, is 8.1 Millimoles Per Litre.

Lots of love to all you fine people from Johnny xXx.
 
debrasue said:
Wow, that's really interesting, Johnny - I'd heard of Raleigh, of course, but I didn't know all that. Is history a topic which really interests you? I used to find it really boring when I was at school, but I love it now.
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I've always been keen on world and British History and when I was younger my Dad picked me up a set of Children's Encyclopaedia Brittanica books and I'd read, digest and memorise all the statistics that neurotypical people would never be able to quite get their heads around. Nowadays, Google tells me all the statistics I need to know. I also love Sciences, Geography and Maths.
 
Well done you on being interested in factual subjects and scientific subjects. I was only ever good at English and History, modern languages at school - I once was given only 11% on an Algebra test It's good to use your brain to soak up all that knowledge Johnny, I'm impressed !
 
Wow! Brainiac.
I'm a complete dummy at maths and not particularly interested in science. But I like geography, too, particularly when it relates to places I have been. And I love Google - I think I've learnt more from there than I ever did at school.
 
I know what you mean, Anna. I once scored 5% on a maths paper - and I think they only gave me that because I spelled my name correctly at the top!
I always enjoyed English (Lang & Lit), languages, art & crafts, and cookery lessons (I was hopeless at sewing). I detested games and PE.
It's a funny old life, though, isn't it? Many years after I left school and became a wife and mother, I took a MENSA test, got a pretty good score and was invited to join the organisation. I never joined, but it was nice to have been asked.
 
Emotional intelligence, that's where you really score off the charts @debrasue What a clever lot we Diabetics are
 
Good Morning, my wonderful, fine friends on the Type 2 Life thread of http://www.diabetes.co.uk website on Friday 6th October 2017 Anno Domini at 6:04 Ante Meridian British Summer Time,

I am posting to let you all know I had a good night's sleep, and was dry and didn't have any urinary emissions because I had taken my Occupational Therapist's advice about going to the lavatory before bedtime and draining my bladder completely. Yesterday, with my Carer, I changed the fitted sheet on my bed and put on a new pillowcase on my pillow and she put my duvet into a clean duvet cover and swept all the rooms in my flat. I had already meticulously and with eye for detail washed all my crockery, cutlery and steamer and cooking utensils, rinsing each one sequentially in warm water to remove soap residue to avoid chemical contamination. My Carer also removed the organic, perishable waste bag (I recycle my waste) and replaced it with a new one.

Last night, I chopped some red and green chillies and fried them on Electricity Hob Number 3 on my electric stove with a little of the herb oil that I made at my autism spectrum disorder group on Wednesday for 2-3 minutes, added some chopped onion and sliced courgettes and boiled a third of a small teacup of basmati rice for 8 minutes checking a single grain of rice after that duration, and was satisfied it was perfect. I drained the rice in my colander and placed the colander over the steamer saucepan to catch the water drainage. I ate two platefuls and was satisfied. All that was on each plate was two dessertspoonfuls of rice and plenty of chilli, onions and courgettes. There was a tin of plum tomatoes, broken up, added to my chilli, onion and courgettes, too.

My Fasting Blood Glucose Reading, today, was a very good 6.8 Millimoles Per Litre which I attribute to my LCHF diet.

Lots of Love to all of the members on http://www.diabetes.co.uk, my friends, in fond friendship, from @JohnnyBaker12021970 xXx.
 
My Blood Glucose Reading, still fasting, at 7:52 Ante Meridian British Summer Time, on Friday 6th October 2017 Anno Domini is a very good, healthy 5.7 Millimoles Per Litre. I feel very happy today.
 
Good Morning, my lovely friends on the Type 2 Life thread of http://www.diabetes.co.uk, today, Saturday 7th October 2017 Anno Domini at 4:33 Ante Meridian British Summer Time,

Yesterday, I had a lovely, constructive day, and my senior clinical psychologist from the Maudsley Hospital that specialises in challenging and concerning autism spectrum disorders, part of the Bethlem Royal Hospital ADHD and Autism Service, called Siobhan, has agreed, in the next three sessions of cognitive behaviour therapy for my Asperger Syndrome and the additional twelve sessions if she is successful in getting funding, will work on treating my fixation with my two friends Gary and Roger and how I tend to ruminate over or think about the hurtful comments they've made about my family. If I'm honest, I find that every time that someone makes an unkind or critical observational statement towards me, I always bring up my friends' Gary and Roger's negative behaviour and the impact it has on people around them, in my own altruistic and caring way, but it can incur great emotional dysregulation that eventually escalates into an autistic meltdown. Fortunately, the 'meltdowns' have largely been eradicated because I'm listening to Siobhan's advice about identifying my mood cycle so that I don't let it build up and build up until I reach sensory overload and explode. I've never been physically abusive with a 'meltdown' but I do tend to speak out of turn, swear, bang myself, rock back and forth and even dribbling and shout a bit and overturn furniture. This is something I'd like eradicated because it's affecting my friends and my elderly Dad whom I love very much.

Yesterday afternoon, I cooked a roasted shoulder of lamb, roasted potatoes with oregano, salt and white pepper and three-quarters of a cup of water and steamed leeks, steamed courgettes, steamed broccoli and steamed cauliflower. I put up meals for Ioanna and her friends Maria and Momo, being respectful of Momo's Islamic religion in eradicating the non-Halal lamb meat.

I had some, too, and failed on my LCHF diet by having quite an insurmountable amount of roasted potatoes but I'm going to resume the LCHF diet from this point on.

My blood glucose reading, now, is 7.4 Millimoles Per Litre, a price to pay for my abuse of the fab LCHF diet yesterday.


Lots of love from @JohnnyBaker12021970. xXx.
 
My fasting blood glucose reading after medication like lixisenatide, metformin, ramipril, bendroflumethiazide, amlodipine, carbamazepine, bisacodyl, and tamsulosin is 6.7 mmol/L, which is much better.
 
My Blood Glucose Reading, still fasting, at 8:19 Ante Meridian British Summer Time, today, Saturday 7th October 2017 Anno Domini is a very good, healthy 5.6 Millimoles Per Litre, bearing in mind I have ingested 3 transparent plastic cups of tap water and 1 mug of instant coffee in my Cadbury's Creme Egg mug with 2 teaspoonfuls of Sainsbury's Sucralose Artificial Granulated Sweetener and 2 teaspoonfuls of Nestle Coffee Mate Light coffee whitener.
 
I was no good at PE and games like soccer, rounders or cricket due to coordinational abnormalities and clumsiness in my Asperger Syndrome. I could never walk on a narrow beam or run and jump on the springboard and vault over the "horse". I did quite well at swimming lessons, the primary school used to lay on a motorcoach to take us to the public swimming pool where I learned how to tread water, swim without armbands or a ring, to get off the side and learned breaststroke, backstroke, back crawl and front crawl. I still can't do butterfly stroke to this day, however. I even played water polo and took part in swimming galas, but I wasn't that fast a swimmer and couldn't keep up with my peers. When I used to play soccer, I was frightened of tackling and dribbling and frightened of the hard football hitting me in the tummy so I used to lay down on the pitch and sleep which put me at risk of being trampled upon. I hate sports to this day apart from swimming and following the Arsenal Football Club which I support, like my elderly Dad. I love watching swimming at the Olympics and Judo.
 
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