  We present calculations of the charming-penguin long-distance contributions
to B => K \pi decays due to intermediate charmed meson states. Our calculation
is based on the Chiral Effective Lagrangean for light and heavy mesons,
corrected for the hard pion and kaon momenta. We find that the charming-penguin
contributions increase significantly the B => K \pi decay rates in comparison
with the short-distance contributions, giving results in better agreement with
experimental data.
