October 1, 2013

I tried every technique there was to quit smoking. It turned out the only thing I did need was a good reason.

January 4, 2014

I gave up smoking in about 1993. When I had my last cigarette I know it was the last and I have never smoked since.

July 7, 2014

I started smoking at about age 11 out of sheer peer pressure. It was something everybody did.

July 7, 2014

I smoked from the age of 13 and quit aged 30. At my worst I smoked 60 ciggies a day.

September 1, 2014

My someone who was my inspiration to stop smoking is my 5 year old son.

January 20, 2016

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.

October 18, 2016

After smoking for 12 years I quit for the health of my children.

February 1, 2017

If I did get sick from smoking, it would have taken a big toll on my family.

February 24, 2017

It’s a long journey but the kids are starting to notice the difference slowly. Yeah even myself, I’m feeling a lot more closer to my kids too.

February 10, 2017

When I got really, really, really sick with pneumonia I almost died, and it was a bit of a wakeup call.

March 3, 2017

It’s breaking that habit of the first thing that you do when you get up in the morning is have a cup of tea and then you go and have your cigarette with your cup of tea.

March 24, 2017

I know now, like it’s taken a long time, that I can’t be that person that has one cigarette here and there because I’ll just go straight back to it and I refuse to be that person anymore.