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Protecting Your Peace: Why I Had to Cut Off a Chaotic Person I Cared About

There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just say it: I had to cut off someone I cared about. They weren’t abusive, they weren’t evil—but they were chaotic. You know the type. Always late. Always loud. Everything’s an emergency. No structure, no focus, no follow-through. Talking a million miles an hour, jumping from one topic to another like a squirrel on Red Bull. At first, I thought it was just their personality. Then I thought maybe it was ADHD. Then I thought maybe I was just being uptight. But eventually, I realised something much deeper: Their chaos was wrecking my peace. When You Spend Time With Chaos, You Become Chaos I’m someone who’s been through enough already. I’ve fought through burnout, trauma, emotional abuse—you name it. So when I say I crave calm, I mean it like oxygen. But spending time with this person made me feel like I was constantly on edge. My brain wouldn’t settle. I lost hours of focus. I felt more drained after seeing them than I did wor...
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Things To Do Instead Of Smoking

Go outside and breathe fresh air, lock your vapes or cigarettes into a box in the furthest away room to disable easy access, 

Start with dental hygiene as your mouth is probably a complete mess and your breath stinks, then remove any activities that enable the smoking. Ie don’t follow the other smoker and copy them.

Delete the word smoking from your vocabulary and you won’t even think about it. 

Find new friends that don’t smoke

Start a new hobby ie cycling 

Coffee breaks learn something from a podcast instead of smoking

When you wake up and automatically pick a cigarette up, instead go outside and breath the fresh air deeply 

The sensible reason to give up is for you health but this doesn’t seem to help most people! 

So Lastly quit because you are paying the tax man… 


Tobacco Duty

You pay different rates of Tobacco Duty on cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products.

Tobacco productRate
Cigarettes16.5% of the retail price plus £6.33 on a packet of 20
Cigars£3.95 on a 10g cigar
Hand rolling tobacco£12.37 on a 30g packet
Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco (for example pipe tobacco)£5.21 on a 30g packet
Tobacco for heating£1.95 on a typical packet of 20 sticks

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