@vero and @DrMarkH - at first I thought you were referring to me but I realise you meant the French guy. (Well I hope you were 
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Argh of course it was that cretinous youth
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I suppose I should have added to the posting that the reason I had the chewing gum was because I had just given up smoking (20 Marlboroughs Reds a day!) and I went cold turkey, so the only way I could get through it was to permanently have chewing gum in my mouth. By the by - within two weeks I had kicked the habit and have never had a cigarette since. 
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Did you fall in love with a cowboy, Rachel? 
The only cowboy I fell in love with was on the screen - as a teenager I loved Robert Mitchum - he was my idol in those days. Now my idol is my darling Stuart 
. He’s not a cowboy but he can ride a horse! 
Bon retour, @Corona and bon rétablissement to your wife.
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So did I - though I did try nicotine patches for a while.
My advice to anyone trying to give up smoking is to find a good incentive to quit - in my case it was having healthier lungs so i didn’t use up a tank of air so fast when scuba diving,
I stopped on March 25th 1997 and am still off the weed.
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Good luck for your wife’s surgery and for a full recovery @Corona
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I got a job in an explosives area where, obviously, smoking was strictly banned over quite a large area. It just became too much of a faff to go out for a smoke.
One of my reasons too. It was annoying that mine would only last 25 minutes (depth dependent) when others could dive for much longer.
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I remember when I told my doctor I was quitting smoking, he said that my lungs 
were probably liked picked walnuts. But after not smoking for about 7 years, they could most likely recover slightly. Anyway, I couldn’t afford to smoke now. Not with the price of ciggys at around 20 euros a pack in France and almost 20 quid in the UK.
I’m pretty sure my wife stopped when the children were old enough to ask if they could smoke.
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My wife used to work as a hypnotherapist. I picked up the 'phone one day when she was out.
It was a chap asking about the cost of sessions to help give up smoking. I had no idea so I asked him how much he smoked in a month and what that cost him then suggested that would be a reasonable fee.
The ‘phone went quiet for a bit while he did his sums then said “bloody hell I can’t afford that” and put the’ phone down.
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I think you may have cured him in one short telephone consulation 
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15 ltr or 10ltr?
15 litre, but I did once make it last 45 mins, but it was only a max depth of 15 or so metres
Wow! A real gulper, I dived with a buddy like that, he was a big lad but he just couldn’t relax diving so like you 25mins for a 15 ltr shallow dive in Weymouth.
Yes i used to dive with my middle brother and sister-in-law who were both super-fit diving instructors at the time. Most embarrassing.
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My Friend Tim, said to me on our first dive together, “ I hope you are good on air” so I chewed each breath for 30 before slowly releasing. He ended the dive at 55 mins on 0 air last 3m, me, quite a bit left and he then wanted to dive with me all the time. Sadly Tim was vaporised in the Bali bombing. 
Looks like the Chopper is a goner…