That will be fine for me as well! Looking forward to it already!
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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I would be interested Andy. I missed the one in Portsmouth due to unforseen problems-That said, i would most definately like to meet some of the people on here!
Julie! I'm sure we're worth giving the footie a miss for a week![:D][:D]
Sharing from experiences of dealing with debt
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley. http://kallis3.blogs.iva.co.uk
Sharing from experiences of dealing with debt
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley. http://kallis3.blogs.iva.co.uk
Sharing from experiences of dealing with debt
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley. http://kallis3.blogs.iva.co.uk
You do have to be in the right frame of mind to stop smoking and I am sure many of the ex smokers on here will agree that the more somebody else tells you to stop the more you want to smoke.
I found I have only been able to stop in circumstances when it was my decision and I was in the right frame of mind.
Its the same with the IVA, being told you cant smoke just makes you want to smoke more.
Smokers are being forced to take tablets and wear patches. These are supposedly 'free' on the NHS but last year cost over £70 million pounds of taxpayers' money. The success rate for these treatments is less than 2% as opposed to 20% for those who go 'cold turkey'.
Doctors are paid to refer smokers to these smoking cessation clinics and the drug companies make a fortune dishing out useless products and dangerous in the case of tablets.
Going back to the thread, it is incumbent on IPs to do proper I&Es that allow clients to have a life and if that means the odd cigarette, beer, trip to the gym, keeping animals etc then that is fine. IVAs will run their course if affordable and sustainable and clients should not have to decide whether to feed themselves or their dogs or whether to turn on the heating or have a smoke.
If you spent a whole day in a room full of smokers with the windows shut it may be unpleasnt but you will not die. Try it with car exhaust fumes and you will not last 15 minutes!!!
Not straight away Michael, sorry but, tell this to Roy Castle's family
Car dish out other polutants (monoxide etc) in vastly greater quantities, but over time, the cigs will kill you as well
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ladyh wrote:
As I said to my son yesterday, I'm not a drug addict
Sorry Ladyh, but thats exactly what smoking is
But I have to say bravo to the majority of your post, you sound a thoughtful and very considerate person. If only all smokers were like this then a lot of the arguments would not take place I am sure
There are 10 kinds of people that understand binary, those that do and those that don't
