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Good luck mate, have quit many times now... I am hopeless. Funny, I could tell you were a smoker just from your attitude on here... You will be amazed at just how relaxed you will be now that you no longer have to worry about when you can have you next drug fix. You will also enjoy having a clear throat and an extra few notes every week to spend on other crap you don't need. It takes three weeks of withdrawal for the sh*t to leave your system, it will be hard at this time of the year with work do's and Christmas and new years party's, especially if your mates are smokers.. you just need to prove you are the stronger man and refuse to smoke, it will drive them crazy, they like to see others are as weak as them to validate the drug addiction. Keep us updated.

Good news, I had the same experience when installing a K&N intake onto my m3.. maybe the amplified noise made it more evident, but the car certainly seems to rev more freely. I'm going on 3 months and 800kms on the oiled K&N with no MAF issues. This has included one clean & re-oil after a very dusty road.

I can't help but think this is what the next M3 should have been.

Meh.

I'm not sure the govt would be interested as they spent millions bailing Ford out for it to only fall over a few years afterward, which shouldn't have happened. Ford have more money than a bull can sh*t, they should have bailed out their own subsidiary company, not have innocent Australians picking up the tab.

Well yeah, no point taking it to the AA because IMO their checks are or at least used to be as good as a knob of goat sh*t. Take it to a BMW pre-purchase and you'd be up for 10% almost of what the car is worth!

Well done at wanting to succeed , Is it hell in trying yes but you have to push through it. I smoked for 29 years (2 x 50gm packets of roll your own a week) before kicking it , over 2 years for me now and to be honest I still get a craving evey now and then but I am determined not to return to the foul smelling stuff. Stay strong and post on here and we can support you as you go along. Good luck.

2000 Nope, but drove the car for half the day before I bought it. At $2700 I wasn't really too worried, it doesn't make any noises, it has been fully serviced ontime, transmission works perfectly, engine runs & starts perfectly, new rotors/pads front & rear, registered until November 2014, fresh WOF.. The only issue I have left (at the moment) (have fixed the boot myself) is the smell of burning oil which is just the rocker cover gasket.

For sure, its a disposable V8, that's gotta be fun while it lasts. Ha, na, it can happen to any brand of car, I have seen one year old Toyota's blow up , it was not my BMW (parents) and not my money so not so hard on me, I am still farting around with cars that cost way too money at times. It did teach me not to drive a car you can not afford to fix though, hence I prefer a new to three year old basic car with a warranty over a showy 3 or more year old flash car, I could be driving a 3 year old M3 or M5 or any other luxury car for that mater if I wanted but I know I could not afford to fix it when I blow it up. The fundamental problem with the car was its cooling system and the lack of local knowledge at the time, had the now readily available cooling system upgrades been available it would not have blown up a second time. Still, it was a massive design failure on the manufacturers part and totally unacceptable based on how much the cars cost new, you should be getting something engineered much better based on the cost of the cars new.

Some of the plugs will be different and you'll find that the B28 will be a Siemens DME and the B25 will possibly be Bosch. If the B28 has ASC and the B25 doesn't you'll have to get a non ASC throttle body and DME. It really depends on what the mixture will be. You also have to factor in the gearbox type as well, auto or manual

Subtle, is sooooooooooooo overrated, particularly when theres a M5 badge also..............

Certainly in Holden's case, & to a similar extent also Ford - the small / midsize cars that they are now peddling off here are just character-less pieces of crap IMO.............I wouldn't pi$$ on one to warm up its wheels..........if I was in the market I'd go get a Swift Sport or a Mazda instead........

I'm a fairly compulsive person but was somehow able to give up smoking almost 10 years ago after being a heavy smoker for around 16-17 years with barely a tinge of craving when I stopped. It was kind of unplanned, I'd just always told myself - even as a teenager - that I would never smoke past the age of 30. Of course 30 seemed a long way away when I was 13-14 but suddenly there I was... 30 years old. Psychologically, I think I had so utterly convinced myself that I wouldn't smoke beyond 30 that I just stopped dead on my birthday and haven't smoked - or really craved ciggies - since. Totally agree with Graham that food never tasted so good so I have to exercise (run everyday with the dog) in order to still satisfy my addiction to lots of food without becoming massive.

Being inspired & impressed by Glenns effort,I booked a session with a hypnotherapist as I too was desperate to quit-Ive been smoking 30 odd a day since I was 15. I am super cynical about anything 'different' or 'not run of the mill' so I figured it was a $125 long shot. I walked out of the session & commented to my daughter-"well that was a waste of time". I felt no different & would swear I was aware throughout. Not sure what I was expecting but there certainly werent any lightening bolts. That was Nov 22-I havent smoked since! Dont ask me how or why & I take no credit for stopping whatsoever. I simply do not ever feel like a smoke. Go figure!! lol THANK YOU GLENN-I will forever be in your debt for the inspiration

I rekon this thread should be stickied so that anyone wanting to quit smoking can refer to it. Lots of really good information, inspiration and advice throughout.

Hey Glenn, good on ya. I smoked since I was 15 till I was 25. When living in Australia I was a truck driver and used to power smoke a 50 pack in 1.5 days. I wasn't planning on giving up but when I left to come home from AU I travelled to Brizzie from Melbourne and stayed with relatives. The night before I left for NZ I had the biggest night on the piss in me life. I smoked a 50 pack in one day, in the morning I was so sick from smokes and alcohol I decided to have a day off. When I got back to NZ 2 days went past and I thought sh*t?!? I haven't had a smoke, so I thought f**k it, I'll carry this on and wet complete cold turkey. First few days even air and doors made me angry but trust me mate, you'll get over it. It's not so much the financial gain that was the incentive but the fact you're not handing coin over the government and the health benefits is what made me carry on. My wife bought me packet of ciggies Pack of Horizon Red 50's it was before we got on the plane, I still have that sealed packet of smokes to this day 5 years later! If the camera was charged I'd pic it but what I plan to do is put that in a frame with a bottle of beer that I had left over from my 21's

There won't be any progress... I stopped smoking last week .. Monday the 20th September 2010 at about 4.00 am

Glenn, I was also a 2 pack a day smoker 6 years ago, then one day for no real reason, I stopped. Never tried placebos or any substitutes, just stopped cold. I was still playing soccer then and got sick of the halftime fag and the spitting and coughing in the mornings. I still find it hard socially sometimes, and could go back to it real easy, but hope I don't. Funny thing is, at the end of the day, it's up to you and whether you want to quit badly enough, no-one else can do it for you. Just think of all the extra cash you'll have for the project, one of my mates quit and put the money he saved in a bank account for a Jag, he'd always wanted one, took him just over a year to get it. Good luck mate.

Sweet ... I did cold turkey 3 times ... with 2 year gaps in between. Have remained quit for nearly two years this time around and will remain so as I have no interest in starting again. The first 2 weeks are pretty rough, But it does get easier. Its just a mind set that you have to set yourself the goal of not smoking. 1 month mark youll start to get your smell/taste back (youll know what I mean ) 3 month mark youll start to stop thinking about them .. and if you can hold out on the 6 month 'F**k it ill just have one itll be sweet' mark then youll be home free. The next thing after this is youll actually start to hate smokers ... it f**ken reeks hahaha

Kerry... stop smoking... spend the money on your car... let the neighbour keep the wife happy J Joking... ATM I feel like killing something... anyone got a 325 Vanos steel block engine they want stripping, cleaned , parts label'd , so long as I can keep the block ?.. has to be 325 not 320 and not alloy

Good stuff Glen. Two types of people in this world - Smokers and non- Smokers. Once your mindset exists as a non- Smoker it all becomes clear. Discard the terms quiting, giving up and ex (they`re likened to cutting a limb off, very painful). `Non Smoker` has a great feel to it. Regards Ray

Problem is you’re getting angry because your body wants drugs, not because you are actually angry, having a smoke just rewards the bug. It’s really easy to justify starting again to calm the bug down. It goes away after a couple of weeks.. Even after quitting for 10 months I find as soon as I have a big night and scab a few fags that anger you speak of rears its ugly head a few days later, normally directed at the wrong person and it’s at that stage I think I could start again… It’s a tricky drug and it finds its way in very fast, its easy to get addicted too, one smoke and your addicted and in a state of nicotine withdrawal, it’s as easy to quit too though once you re programme your thinking.

I tried quitting a few months ago. Found myself getting really angry at every little thing which wouldn't even cross my mind before. Stopped cold turkey for 4 days and then gave up. Am now smoking way less but still should probably stop all together. Good luck fella.

Of course gum and all that sh*t doesn’t work, all you are essentially doing is quitting Nicotine, how does giving yourself nicotine to quit nicotine make sense? The only way to quit is to get it out of your system and keep it out, cutting down doesn’t help, there is no variation of addiction be it a 5 a day smoker of a 40 a day smoker, the addiction is the same. No one smokes for the taste or because they are board they smoke because they are a drug addict, take the nicotine away from cigarettes and there would be no smokers, they don’t relax you they simply feed your addiction to the drug making you feel relaxed for 10 minutes. If you want to actually quite read the book properly, finish it, I read it in two day and was cured of my addiction.