"Because I love playing sport, people automatically think it's the reason I stopped smoking, but that wasn't it. I'm saving for a house, so I didn't want to keep spending all that money on cigarettes, which are costly.
Another reason is that it's pretty hard to get dates. I've found that women don't really care too much for a smoker. They don't really like making out with ashtrays and that's fair enough."
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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