Free Report: 7 Virtual Ways To Make Money Online

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Last week I finished my first eBook and it’s free to download  here- or click on the eBook cover. I would appreciate any constructive feedback about the report or about the squeeze page. I’ve kept the squeeze page pretty simple and may do a split test of a fancier version to see which converts the best.

Although I’m not new to self publishing my own products it feels like it’s the first time because my other products were created for the offline information publishing market in the late 90s and early 2000s. One of them at least I may dig out and repurpose for the Internet, that’s if I ever find the time.

I actually have 2 more products well on the way, but they didn’t seem right for the purpose of my first product and that is to help build my list. I wanted to write something that would help newcomers to online marketing think about and see that there are plenty of options and help them to avoid losing their money to scams or pipedreams.

The title ’7 Virtual Ways To Make Money Online’ came about because that was the best way to describe the report. I also did a search and found that nobody else was using that title so at least that makes it more individual.

I wrote the report using the free open office writer. I don’t know why but I installed that on my laptop even though I have Microsoft Word on my main computer. It’s really easy to convert to a PDF format using open office, just a few seconds and it’s sorted.

I made the ebook cover online at http://www.myecovermaker.com I tried the free version first but wasn’t happy with the result so I paid $3.95 for one download to access to more covers to make the cover in this post. Unfortunately resizing it for this post cut the top off so it doesn’t look so good if I add it to the post.

I built the squeeze page using xSitePro because I wanted to try something simple and because it’s easy to block the search engines from the download page. I’m not totally happy with the wording or design, but as with the report I will probably do some tweaking later. Sometimes if you go back with a fresh eye you see all sorts that you missed earlier. All I have to do now is get traffic to the page and see how well it converts.

The hardest part was the writing, ideas flowed but I have a rather painful medical condition caused by using my laptop on my lap and the laptop stand that I bought, although the lowest is still too high for me to sit comfortably and write for prolonged times. I should go back to using my desktop but I like the laptop better.

Anyway if you would like a free copy of 7 Virtual Ways To Make Money Online you need to click on the link. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The Apprentice – You’re Hired Review

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The Apprentice – You’re F/Hired

I’ve never watched a full series of UK TV programme The Apprentice before the 2011 series that has just ended, perhaps because previously the winner got a job but this year the prize was a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar into a business partnership. That made it more appealing to me because in my own small way I’m an entrepreneur and am interested in anything to do with entrepreneurship. I think that the change was a good move because we need entrepreneurs coming along with new products and business ideas to help get us out of recession.

Although I enjoyed watching the series I was disappointed with the shortage of real entrepreneurs amongst the competitors and felt that most of them would have been more suited to the old format where a job was on offer. Out of the 4 that got through to the final only 2 had run their own businesses Susan Ma and winner Tom Pellereau.

The business plans of all of the 4 finalists were disappointing to some extent, but at least third placed Susan stuck to what she knew and I’m sure will do really well in the future with her beauty business. Fourth place went to Irishman Jim Eastwood. He didn’t just kiss the blarney stone, he swallowed it! Non stop patter and cliches, maybe a great salesman but I doubt he’d sell to me. Second placed Helen Milligan was the favourite to win having led all the way through, but her Concierge idea was just an idea with no real substance behind it and trying to change to her second business plan of a bakery chain at the last minute wasn’t a good idea.

The winner Tom is an inventor, a nice guy who looks and acts like the stereotype mad professor. His idea was for a chair that helped with back problems. I’ll bet the appeal to Lord Sugar had a lot to do with the curved nailfile that Tom had invented and brought to market. Curved nailfile – I don’t get it. Anyway, like many who watched I wanted Tom to win and would love to see a fly on the wall programme of the partnership. At one point I half expected Lord Sugar to make Tom and Helen joint winners, Tom inventing and Helen doing what she’s best at organising.

Now that it’s all over I’m wondering what idea I would come up with if I had to produce a business plan to help win  £250,000 prize, that should keep the brain cells working for a while.

5 Interesting And Fun Days Out In Yorkshire For Locals And Tourists

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Yorkshire is in the north of England and the biggest county. It’s that friendly place where Yorkshire puddings come from and where there is a lot of beautiful countryside and interesting places to visit. I’ve lived in Yorkshire most of my life and the following five places are the ones that my family and myself have enjoyed the most and I know are of interest to tourists.

Bradford National Media Museum

I love this place, 7 floors of interesting displays and activities and it’s free to go in. My family and I went there recently and the youngest was 5 and oldest mid fifties yet we were all entertained and could have stayed longer than the 3 hours we had allocated to the place.

Next door to the media museum is the ice skating rink and close by you will find the Alhambra theatre where we have enjoyed plays and pantomimes.

Leeds/Castleford Xscape Entertainment Centre

We have happily spent all day in Xscape when the weather hasn’t been too good and still we could go away leaving something to do that we haven’t had time for. Apart from shops, bars, cafes and many different types of restaurants the activities include a soft play gym, cinema, indoor snow slope for skiing and snowboarding, fake rock climbing slope, adventure golf, ice skating, bowling, laser games and much more.

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Line

This heritage railway line for steam trains is 5 miles long and runs from Keighley to Oxenhope. Stops on the way include Ingrow, where you will find the Museum of Rail Travel and also at certain times in the year Thomas the Tank Engine. At Haworth you will find the Bronte Parsonage museum and items owned by the famous Bronte literary family. Haworth is very popular with tourists and in the summer we love to take a walk on the moors and picnic at Bronte Waterfall.

York City Walls

It’s good exercise for all of the family walking around York city walls and interesting what you can see and do within those walls. York Minster is magnificent but you have to be fit to climb all of those steps to the top of the tower. The other extreme is the York dungeons though the exhibits are a bit scary for youngsters. The York Castle Museum is an interesting place to visit and right next door you will find the York model railway. You can walk through the Shambles and check out those quaint looking shops, or take a ghost cruise down the river Ouse. Go to the races or visit the Jorvik Viking centre.

Hairy Bob’s Cave Scarborough

On the north Yorkshire coast Scarborough is a picturesque seaside town offering plenty to do for many days out. Hairy Bob’s cave is actually a metre deep man made hole in a rock at the foot of Scarborough castle, the only real thing of interest is guessing why it was made because nobody knows. When the weather is good there are lovely beaches to sunbathe and build sandcastles on, or you can go out on boat trips for fishing or leisure. There is a miniature railway and a sealife centre. The nighlife is great, we’ve had a lot of good times there and spent more than one day at a time in Scarborough.

There are a lot more interesting and fun to visit places in Yorkshire. For those who are taking a Yorkshire holiday, wherever you stay you will find easy to drive to days out in almost any direction. Or you might enjoy using our excellent rail and bus services.

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Pop Goes The Weasel by James Patterson Reviewed

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pop goes the weaselI’ve read most of James Patterson’s novels in recent years and have particularly enjoyed the Alex Cross series. Alex is a Washington police detective, psychologist and profiler who is responsible for catching several high profile serial killers who have a habit of taunting and endangering him and his family.

Pop Goes The Weasel, one of the earlier Alex Cross novels starts out with the murder of a young black prostitute whose body is dumped naked in Washington. Alex ties the murder in with others that have occurred where the victims clothing and identification have been removed. His boss doesn’t agree and orders Alex to investigate another higher profile case of the murder of a businessman, but Alex and his lifelong friend police officer John Sampson continue to investigate the series of killings in their own time.

This isn’t a whodunit; we learn right at the beginning that the serial killer Geoffrey Shafer works for the British Embassy in Washington and has diplomatic immunity. He has a wife and young family who believe that he is Mr wonderful because that is the way that he behaves towards them. In private Geoffrey carries out an online fantasy game called the Four Horsemen with 3 other ex British secret service officers. In the game Shafer’s name is Death and the aim amongst the 4 players is to create a ‘better’ fantasy than the other 3 players but none of the players are sure if the other players stories are just fantasy or true.

Alex Cross is a widower with 2 children and a girlfriend called Christine. Early on in the novel Christine accepts a proposal from Alex and they go on holiday with his family to Bermuda. During the holiday Christine disappears and it is months before Alex discovers whether she has been kidnapped or murdered, or whether or not Christine’s disappearance is tied to the murder investigation.

My Review

Although I have enjoyed reading all of the other novels in this series I didn’t find Pop Goes The Weasel  as gripping as the rest. Perhaps because the character of Geoffrey Shafer wasn’t as believable as James Patterson usually makes his characters. The plot was a little too intricate to be believable and at times I lost the plot with it.

What I like about the Alex Cross series is the interaction between Alex and his family – especially Nana. Alex’s elderly grandmother Nana lives with and looks after him and his 2 young children. A wise lady, who at over 80 has more energy than most of us at half of her age. You often find humour in their conversations and the love between them is apparent.

James Patterson has invented a strong well thought out character in Alex who is dedicated to his family and job. At times the job seems more important but then there are heart-warming scenes with his family to temper the more gruesome accounts of murder.

The story also shows how police forces may differentiate wrongfully between crimes and the classes of victims. Prostitutes are human beings and have just as much right as businessmen not to be offended against and investigations should have equal importance.

Although I got a bit lost during the last few chapters the ending was satisfactory with a few surprises. Pop Goes The Weasel is certainly worth reading if you like this genre, but I would advise that you read the series from the beginning through rather than in a mixed order as I have.

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Smoke Detectors Save Lives But Beefburgers Don’t

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One Friday afternoon my friend Karen rang to see if I was going out as usual that evening. I didn’t want to and that was unusual for me, but normally a crowd of us went out together and just two of us seemed strange. After a certain amount of cajoling I agreed to meet in in Bradford, 10 miles away from where I live during the early evening.

We went to several bars and then a night club. We had a few laughs but without the rest of the crowd the night out seemed like an anti climax. I was more than ready to go home when it came time to catch the late bus at two o’clock in the morning.

When I got home I felt hungry and also as normal wanted to eat something to soak the booze up to lessen the chances of a hangover the next day. As I hadn’t wanted to go out I hadn’t bought in anything to make a cold sandwich as usual so decided to put a beefburger under the grill. While I was waiting for my burger to cook I went into my sitting room and sat down on the sofa to take my shoes off.

The next thing that I was aware of was feeling groggy and rather disorientated. I was still sitting on the sofa, my shoes on the floor and I felt really tired. I stood up to go to bed and suddenly thought that I was hungry. It then crossed my mind that I had put a burger under the grill but hadn’t eaten it. It was at that point that I realised that I could barely see through the thick fog of smoke that was swirling around me.

‘Burning burger’ I thought as I rushed towards my kitchen. What I saw as I entered the kitchen would probably have alarmed me more if I hadn’t been half out of it. Flames were starting to take hold on the pine wood at the side of my cooker. The flames had spread from the blackened remains of a teatowel that had been on the top of the oven and hanging partially over the front of the grill. The flames didn’t take long to put out and it was easy enough to make the kitchen safe. I went to bed still hungry – the burger was cinders.

It took me a while to remember what had happened when I eventually woke up in the late morning. At first I thought that I had been dreaming until I looked in the bathroom mirror. My face was covered in black soot and there was even soot up my nostrils. There wasn’t much damage, just needed to replace a work surface and some of the wood in my kitchen and I was finding soot around the house for months afterwards.

I was lucky to escape unharmed, but what was really lucky was that I had forgotten to switch my alarm clock off for the weekend as I normally did on Friday mornings. You see it was my alarm clock ringing at 6.45 am that woke me up and saved my life. The burger had gone under the grill at 3.00 am so I had been asleep for almost 4 hours before the alarm went off.

I was then and I am today, 100% certain that I would not have woken up without that alarm, I was too far out of it. As my kitchen furnishings are pine I was lucky to catch the fire before it really took hold. How much longer would I have survived inhaling the smoke? I don’t know.

Not long afterwards I bought some smoke detectors  and installed them. I check my smoke alarms regualarly to see if the batteries are working. I don’t intend to put myself at risk again knowing that my alarm going off and waking me up as it did was highly unusual – really a fluke saved my life!

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Cookers, Curtain Hooks and Changes in the Market

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I’ve been living off cold meals all week because of my cooker breaking down and my failure to buy a new one last week and it’s getting pretty boring. The television that I bought instead of a cooker is still sitting on the sofa because I can’t make my mind up whether to take the new one upstairs and have a bigger TV to watch in bed or take the old one upstairs and buy a Freeview box  for it or get Virgin digital upstairs as well as downstairs. I think that it will be the former because the new TV is much lighter and easier to get upstairs.

This week I needed to buy some new curtain hooks first before looking for a cooker again. My cat Sparky had jumped onto my bedroom window and got caught up in the curtain. The plastic curtain hooks  broke in half and the curtain came down on top of her, giving her enough of a fright to go and hide behind the vacuum that she normally runs away from. I had to put up with daylight too early in my bedroom for a couple of days until I could get into town.

We went to the market my mum and I. We meet every Friday for lunch and have done for over 20 years. This week we went to one of the several cafes on the outskirts of the market and after some excellent sandwiches we went looking for curtain hooks on a stall that hasn’t changed since the market opened nearly 40 years ago. Lots of plastic containers full of buttons, fancy pins, press studs, hooks and eyes, plastic eyes for stuffed toys, needles, bobbins of cotton, a variety of different types of cloth and anything else that you can imagine you would need for sewing.

I said that the stall hadn’t changed but there was a massive difference. For many years it was owned and run by 2 elderly sisters, but today a young gay Asian man served me. At first I just thought that he was from one of the clothes stalls and looking after the stall as a favour while the stallholder nipped out. I asked for curtain hooks and he asked which type of curtains they were for, reeling off the different types quicker than I could think. He obviously belonged on that stall and it was a real pleasure being served by him, in fact more of a pleasure than the previous owners! I got metal curtain hooks so that should stop the cat from bringing it down again, just hope it isn’t the wooden curtain pole on her head next time.

I then went looking for a cooker at the Co-op and found what I was looking for straight away, though it costs quite a lot more than the same model on Amazon. A ceramic hob  again but instead of a double oven with combined grill I chose one with a grill and an oven. Every time that I’ve had a combined grill/oven the grill has broken down just after the guarantee has run out. I figure that with them separate neither will get used as much so I might have more of a chance of making the grill last longer. I also made sure that the on/off buttons were straightforward, I’m getting really fed up with complicated appliances that I need to read instructions for every time that I use them.

I’m really looking forward to cheese on toast again and I’ve just realised that I won’t have to give my old cooker the clean it was due because it’s getting taken away ha ha.

 

A New HD Television – But You Can’t Cook On It!

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I passed my first year of stopping smoking last month and as my bank account was growing nicely I decided to treat myself to some new electrical items. I had a bit of a list for different reasons.

Alarm Clock

My old digital one still works but I am fed up with it. If I just happen to press the wrong button by mistake when I’m setting it the alarm could go off 2 days late or at 5.00 pm instead of 5.00 am. I can’t figure out how to get it back to the right mode without the instructions which I seem to have lost. I decided that this alarm clock  is too clever for it’s own good and that I wanted a simple, straightforward one.

Microwave

I’ve been thinking that I need to replace my current microwave  for a while because some of the lining has scratched off in the bottom and things don’t seem to cook as evenly as they did. I get the feeling that it’s going to break down sooner or later and as it was only a cheap model I’ve had my money’s worth out of it.

Oven

I haven’t done well with ovens in recent years. My first one was a gas cooker  with eye level grill and that did well. I replaced it with a cooker with a ceramic hob when I got a new kitchen. That got damaged when I had a small kitchen fire and the oven that I got with the insurance payout wasn’t as good. The oven/grill part and 2 of the rings went after about 3 years and the one that I replaced it with has the same problems a few years on.

I also can’t use the fan oven  because you have to set the timer to use it and I’ve never been able to figure that out and there is nothing in the instruction manual to show you. That sounds as if I’m thick but there are just several buttons with different symbols and it’s not clear what any of them are. It’s another of those products that is too clever for it’s own good.

DVD Recorder

My old DVD recorder  broke a while back and I haven’t replaced it because I’m on Virgin cable which has catch up TV. It doesn’t catch up on films though and I never seem to be able to watch good films when they are on.

There isn’t much choice of shops that sell electrical appliances in the town, most of them moved out to industrial estates and as I haven’t got a car it’s either limited town shopping or the Internet. The first shop that I went into had a reasonable amount of choices for all of the items that I was looking for.

The manager or owner apologised as I went in because he was short of staff that day. There looked to be a few assistants around but all were busy with customers. That was ok by me because I like to have a good look at the items that I’m interested in and make my decisions based on features and price – often spending a bit more than I originally intend for extra features.

I was astonished to find that there wasn’t one single price label on any of the hundreds of products displayed there. I felt annoyed because I like to decide for myself and not be persuaded into anything by a sales advisor. With no prices it meant that I would have to wait for help and then wait for them to price up an awful lot of items. Then I would feel uncomfortable taking their time up to make decisions if there were other customers waiting for assistance. Then I might buy something just to get out of there or leave without buying anything.

I decided to leave without any assistance and as I passed the manager on the way to the door he said there would be somebody to help me soon. When I said that there were no prices he told me that they had just had a move around and hadn’t had time to label anything. He asked me what I was looking for and when I reeled off the list he looked sick when I told him that I didn’t have time to hang around.

I felt sorry for him but I’ve been through refits at the shop where I work and you make sure that the shop is ready for customers before it opens and that includes price labels. If products had just been moved around then you move the labels too – if there were any in the first place! I couldn’t help thinking that he wouldn’t have to employ as many staff if everything was priced up.

Anyway I checked out cookers and microwaves in another shp but decided to check out” the Internet before making a final decision. I did find a nice simple radio alarm clock  that I could set without using an instruction manual and when I was about to buy I indicated a special offer and said “I’ll have that television as well”. It’s an HD flat screen with built in Freeview and a DVD player.

My old TV is about ten years old and still going strong so really the new HD TV  isn’t exactly needed but I decided to put the old one upstairs so I can watch TV in bed on a bigger screen than my portable and use it for my Wii Fit . When I was setting my new television up I realised that I would have to dine off cold sandwiches yet again because I still hadn’t got a working cooker.

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My new television is now sitting on the sofa because when I’d got it set up – which was easy – I couldn’t remember how to set up Virgin digital on it and couldn’t find the instruction book. I’m tempted to put the new TV upstairs because it’s lighter to carry, has Freeview anyway and my cat won’t lose a perch downstairs because this new TV is too narrow for her to sit on.

 

JS/Wonka – Kicking It’s Butt

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I was making the rounds of my blogs and clicked on this one and my IE browser froze and stopped working. The same happened 3 times so I swapped over to Firefox. When the home page appeared so did a McAfee security warning which told me that it had detected and deleted the JS/Wonka trojan.

Obviously I was not happy at this threat and especially as my laptop is quite new and was not cheap. It was chance really that led me to the quick conclusion that the problem was with this blog and not my lap top. That was because of IE freezing and then switching to Firefox. If I had been browsing with Firefox to start with I would probably have assumed it was from an email or download.

I did a search and very quickly came up with this article How To Remove JS/Wonka Trojan From WordPress and thank the author for the info and http://www.marcosorfila.com/site/?p=325 where the info came from initially.

What they basically say is that it is some disgusting little hacker leaving code in your blog template. In all 3 cases the header. To find and remove just go to Appearance then Theme Editor then Header.php You will find a code straight after the </head> tag which starts like this:

script>document.write(unescape(’%3C%73%63….A_LOT_MORE_CODE_HERE….%261B%264D0tdsjqu%264F1?)

Remove the code but be careful not to remove the </head> tag. If you are unsure about removing code it’s a good idea to open up your note pad and copy and paste all of the header.php code and then if you make a mistake with your deletion you can correct it. When I opened my header.php the McAfee  scanner was going mental detecting and deleting the nasty little trojan again and again but it calmed down once I deleted the malicious code.

Never one for settling for half a tale I decided to find out how the hacker had got in and planted JS/Wonka. I discovered a second administrator called JoshStengel70 and in the user profile a script which starts:

…         <div id=”user_superuser”><script language=”JavaScript”> var setUserName = function(){

and ends:

((d+))</gi,”>Administrator (“+(n[1]-1)+”)<”);         arr[i].innerHTML=txt;         }     }           }catch(e){};      };      addLoadEvent(setUserName); </script></div>

Obviously I deleted this fake administrator and changed my passwords. I also added a security plug in and will be checking around to make sure that I’ve got what I need over the next few days. I will also be checking the user list every time I go onto any of my blogs just to make sure that the only admin is me.

A Double Baby Buggy Means Style And Comfort And Not Just For Twins

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Any parent with two children who are close to each other in age will know just how frustratingly difficult it can be to take a proper family outing whether it be a day out, trip to the park or shopping. The older child will usually tire of walking pretty quickly and want a place to sit down and rest their little legs. If you have a single baby buggy  you will probably have had to trade off carrying one child and letting the other ride in the buggy. Especially difficult when you are shopping. If this is your situation, or if you have a youngster and are expecting another soon you should definitely look into up grading your single to a double buggy.

Luckily for parents there are more and more solutions to this problem coming onto the market every day. If you are thinking about getting a double pushchair now is a very good time to buy one. Just a trip to the park can be much more fun for the parents and the children alike. The extra storage space underneath the twin pushchairs can hold picnics, nappy sacks and toys for the little ones. There are even jogger friendly models for parents who like to take the opportunity to exercise while they take their young ones out.

If you’ve ever taken your kids to an amusement park with a single push chair, you know how difficult it can be to decide which child gets to ride and which has to walk. The youngest might be happy to ride but the oldest might get tired walking or simply decide they want a ride too. Also while you’re juggling your children you’re also having to deal with your bags, lunches, and all of the other things that you need to carry along to a park when you have children. Shopping can be a total nightmare with one child running around grabbing things off the shelves or knocking stacks over. You can make them hold your hand but with pushing the buggy you won’t have a hand free to collect any shopping. By using a double baby buggy  you can solve all of these problems, by having places for both children to ride, and storing all of your belongings on the buggy itself.

These double travel systems are stylish and affordable. They are practical, yet full of safety features that can set any parents mind at ease. Many of the newer systems offer great features like being collapsible. You can unfold them when you need them and break them down for easy stowage in your boot when they aren’t in use. Also by using online shopping outlets you can find a double baby buggy that’s extremely affordable as well.

No matter what you’re going to be doing with your two children, we’ve seen how having a double baby buggy can really help make your family outings far more fun and enjoyable. Please consider purchasing one of these systems for you and your children. You will find some great examples and reviews at http://buggypushchair.com

 

My New Years Resolution: Keep On Giving up Smoking

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Every year millions of people all over the world make New Years Resolutions, but an awful lot of those promises are broken pretty soon. The most popular resolutions are to stop smoking or lose weight, both difficult to do in their own way. This year I will be making an Old Years resolutions and this is:

To carry on giving up smoking  and never put one of those disgusting, addictive, foul smelling, cancerous things in my mouth ever again.

There I’ve said it. Do you know how much it means to me and anybody else who manages to stop smoking to be able to say that and know that this time you really mean it? When you watch TV programmes like the X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing the contestestants always seem to say that winning means the world to them. Well in the real world stopping smoking truly can mean the world to you when you have smoked for many years.

I started when I was 14, it was easy to buy separates from corner shops and then graduate to packs of 5 Park Drive if you got some extra spending money or had a pal to share the cost with. Back then in the 60s it was cool to smoke, the height of sophistication if you were an impressionable teenager. We just didn’t know the health risks that went hand in hand with looking sophisticated to our peers.

Then the health risks became known but when you are addicted your needs overcome what is good for you. It is hard to stop smoking, very hard for most of us nicotine addicts. Every now and then you try to stop but more often than not you weaken and start smoking again. You create a pattern until eventually you manage to break that pattern and stop – that is if you don’t die from smoking related illnesses first.

I will be ending the old and starting the new year as a non smoker and that will be for the first time in 40 years. I won’t have a smokers cough or get out of breath while I am partying. Those who I give a new years hug or kiss to will smell Opium perfume on me and not be repulsed by the disgusting ashtray smell. I won’t have to go outside in the cold with the other outcasts who share the horrible habit and I can brag about how much money I have saved.

Very important to me and the main reason that I stopped back in May is a massive improvement in my circulation. Last winter I suffered from a lot of excruciating pain in my fingers from Reynards disease. At times it was frightening because there was no circulation in my fingers and it was difficult to get my fingers warm enough to get the blood flowing again.

As I work in a shop that sells chilled and frozen products I couldn’t always keep my fingers warm and they and my livelihood were at risk. Now that I don’t smoke those problems have lessened to such an extent that it is just an occasional minor nuisance now. Sometimes it was too painful to use my computer keyboard but now there isn’t a problem.

For those of you who despair of ever giving up smoking my story is proof that eventually you can stop. With my weak willpower it took a lot of attempts using different methods to stop but eventually I found the way that works best for me and that was electronic cigarettes. I used them to gradually get rid of my nicotine addiction and I don’t smoke anything now – nor am I addicted to anything.

One of the things that I did to help myself was to build a blog and keep an online diary. Knowing that other people would be watching how I did strengthened my resolve and my diary will always be there to stop me from slipping.

To learn more about how I stopped smoking with the help of electronic cigarettes visit smokersstop.co.uk

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