“I would smoke more to not be depressed, and then be more depressed because I was smoking. And that was just a vicious, vicious cycle.
…Most people who smoke have no idea what the non-smoking world is like, and it’s a beauty place to be.”
Rebecca quit smoking while managing depression; watch her videos created by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tony had been smoking for 35 years when he was diagnosed with a tumour in his lower jaw. The surgeon told him he needed to operate immediately to save his jaw bone.
I guess I’d just like to say that it definitely wasn’t an easy thing to do, I made several attempts and it's all about getting the nicotine out of your body so if people can work through that, also the knowledge from the health information on what damage it does.
What put me off the smoking... I looked after my brother, he had lung cancer and he had half his lung taken off. I cared for him for 8 years.
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I promised my Dad, and then he passed on, so I sort of made the commitment for him.
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