Stopping smoking — DJP (2026)

 

I am reading Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" book for the first time in over 25 years and I 

was just reading about other sides to smoking too from ChatGPT / in more or other depth, including 

this graph  which I think it worth saving for record as a reminder for encouragment for me on my 

journey.

I will give an update here on my blog again on how I am getting on with the book  just after I have

finished reading it if I don't post on the issue again before then. The first time I read his book in the 

year circa 1999/2000 I got off them. I have given up smoking I think three times over the years but not 

for very long periods.

Re: Smoking on confidence and anxiety

ChatGPT 

Incense for well-being

 

I haven't smoked grass or hash in around 20 years and even the couple of times I tried it around 20 years ago were rare times as I had stopped smoking it generally a couple of years earlier.

If I hadn't have got into burning incense sticks in the last several years I could well see myself on occassion smoking grass or hash again.

I find burning good quality incense sticks to have a wonderful effect on the body, mind and soul.

My favourite incense companies are Darshan and Hem. I bought Darshan Lavender and Patchouli today for the first time – I usually try the Hem versions of these.

Anyway I can vouch that they and Darshan White Rose are good quality. The cheap poor quality incense is rubbish in my experience. I cannot yet vouch for any incense brands apart from what I use from Darshan and Hem.

Watch with Patchouli though – it can smell like and the Darshan kind I bought today definitely does – like grass so people visiting your home may think you are smoking grass having burned it even if you don't smoke it.

I would strongly recommend Darshan and Hem incense (although again I generally stick with White Rose, Lavender and Patchouli so have not tried the or most of the other kinds they have) for people who believe in holistic mind, body and soul healing including as a therapy for people who have some kind of dis-ease whether that be from drug use or not.

A photo of the 500 Darshan incense stick I bought today below! 😊

Update: + More about incense

Stop smoking every day? World No Tobacco Day — DJP (2026)

 

I posted here a couple of months ago about my first attempt to stop smoking cigarettes in years.

Today the 31st May is World No Tobacco Day 2026. See my update on Facebook below as to how I got 

on  trying to give them up and below that see a couple of, to me, rather unique jpegs I saw and saved on 

Linkedin today. The line of thinking in those two jpegs is very good I think for helping people give up 

addictions or at least seriously want at some point to give them up.

Update – Here is another good jpeg:

🔊 New UK law on smoking cigarettes and vapes to come into Northern Ireland — Near FM (2026)

 

Doreen Regan, PA NI