July 24, 2018

Don't think it will happen to you? These WA locals have shared how smoking affected their health.

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.

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.

February 1, 2017

Recently, I had the flu and I was really struggling to breathe, especially at night.

February 17, 2017

It was pretty scary once I realised that I couldn’t actually go a whole day without it.

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.

March 31, 2017

This is probably the only time that I’ve really tried quitting, probably a year ago when I hit 40.