Possibly the most random DS game... in the world!
Lucky reader,
Are you on the dirty train of chuffing away on life-depriving cancer sticks. Have you ever wanted to remove the nasty, stale smokiness from your daily lifestyle? Do you own a Nintendo DS?
Fear not... help is at hand! From the makers of the "My Health Coach" series, comes a new, bed-wettingly exciting installment... My Health Coach: Stop Smoking with Allen Carr.
That's right, chaps and chapettes, you can now use your DS to help you stop smoking. For only £16 of your hard earned pennies (or equivalent of 60 fags) you can indulge yourself in to the fun and frolics* of our new "game" and help yourself stop smoking**.
* Fun and frolics not included.
** Will only make you stop smoking as you sent all you money on this game rather than puffa-tubes.
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But, seriously, who the hell is gonna buy this tripe? This is the most random Amazon item I've seen since the good old Paul Ross canvas print ;-)
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:27, Reply)
This I presume is the "game" of the book of the same name
I recall a few years ago one of the more hardcore smokers at work was trying to to quit. He read the paperback of this and swore blind it got him clean. He passed it round a few of the other archaeologists with similar results. I remember thinking at the time how oddly evangelical they all got about it when it came up in conversation, sort of "light in the eyes" stuff so I wondered if the gimmik was it was a sort of read-your-self- hypnosis type thing..
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:34,
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I was pondering...
Does this mean you simulate smoking with this... using the stylus as a tab, and the ds touch screen as an ashtray.
This has to be the gimmick of the year though, right?
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:37, Reply)
I went on an allen carr course once
It's not hypnosis or anything odd, it's more like Cognitive behavioural stuff - it's all common sense and just puts a very logical and persuasive argument against fagging it up.
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Just Juan Cornetto will take you to the lo-rider show n' flaunt ya on, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:53,
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Which is odd, because all he ever does when he's on TV is fag it up
:D
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:01,
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i hope you checked back to see if anybody replied to your gag
because it gets the thumbs up from me.
*thumbs*
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MrGomez and David Bellamy's big pubey beard, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 14:07,
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I read the Allen Carr book too
I scan read it in a day - skipping lots of parts that I didn't feel were relevant to me. I had one more fag after finishing it, and I've not smoked since (that was three or four years ago).
It is very like self-hypnosis though, lots of repetition over and over making the same point. Terrible read though,really awful, even read at speed.
I just latched on to one valid point it made and that has kept me off. That and the close and loving friendship of Mr Kipling for several months. (I gained two stone!)
No-one I've lent the book to has quit though, so I'm not quite as doughy eyed as some.
Anyhoo, before I bore myself to tears, when I initially read the first post, I thought it was Alan Carr, which would have been a very bizarre quit smoking idea.
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cronkgarrow I remember when this were all fjords., Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:09,
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haha, that was who I thought it was was.
"Oooohhh cheeky! Don't you start sucking on that fag!"
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TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:59,
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I
Thought, stop smoking or he will come round your house and bum you. Not alone there then.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:30, Reply)