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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:41:38 +0100
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:19:10 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> An acquaintance had a grandmother who smoked until she was 70 or so, and
>> one day she said... "I've had it, I quit smoking now" and just like
>> that,
>> over a day, she quit smoking.
>
> I was in my 20s but that is what I did. No withdrawal other than the
> actions associated with reaching for a cigarette. I could see those for
> what they were, a conditioned act, rather than a desire for a cigarette.
>
> Sometime later I read an article about some fatal disease that caused
> people to spontaneously stop smoking. That doesn't seem to have been the
> case.

You should reverse engineer yourself! A fortune to be made in a new 
bowman-based anti-smoking drug! ;)