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I was attracted to the closeness and caring of the group of people from the Land of the Smoke Free (TLOS)..to their combined use of wisdom and humor to assist each new Quitter in their journey to freedom.

After smoking for over 50 years and having tried unsuccessfully many times to quit, having used every non smoking aid that was available including hypnosis but never having used a support group I decided to give it one more try and started searching for a group to join when I ran across this one. I lurked around for about a week to find out what they were really all about, I liked what I saw and came aboard.

I was received with so much enthusiastic support it was almost overwhelming. I immediately wanted to know more about each one individually. I also was a little confused about the "Realm of Tlos". That's when I decided to set up this web site for every one to post their stories.

TLOS (The Land Of the Smokeless)

The Realm of TLOS just seems to have developed from the collective imagination of this group.

It has become a group of Royal people inhabiting the Realm of TLOS. they consist of The Queen mum (ret), Knights, Prince and princesses, fairies and elves.

Each new citizen is provided with Their royal name and status (What ever they choose princess, Prince, Lady,Lord . Knight ), with the jeweled Elf swatter for their protection against Mel the sneaky, ornery Elf of The Realm(or Ream as Queen Mum prefers) . Mel prefers to be know as the "Defenders of the Realm".

Now we are providing them with their very own Tooter which gives them the authority to toot their own horn as need for celebrating the minute by minute, hourly, daily, weekly success of their Quit!

This is the most generous, helpful, kind and nonjudgmental group that you could ever want to join and we here in TLOS welcome every one who is tired of being held captive by the old Demon Nico(Demon) to come right in and begin to breathe free again!

The official color is the Rainbow .

By the Order of the Queen Mum to be the official Poem of TLOS

Written by the Roving Bard
(See his web page to enjoy more of his poems and musings)

Captains of your own fates,
Your strength and courage,
Second to none,
Each ship set sail against the wind,
Fighting, tacking to beat the edge,
Together, an Armada sailing,
cutting the wind,
Lessening stress on the masts and topsail,
A great force against our enemy,
Tamers of the roiling seas of change,
Conquerers of a savage course,
We all, Captains be.
O'Neill