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I meet around 5,000 smokers a year and most of...

When my dad died of a heart attack due to being a big old smoker, this scared me. So I went to the chemist and asked for help. In those...

Sometimes we stole cigarettes from my friend’s grandfather and ran...

In 2006 I read on a "quit smoking" web forum about Allen Carr's Easyway book which seemed to be helping lots of people to quit smoking. I started to think...

I felt tired, with no energy, I was coughing badly...

I made many attempts with many different methods. I tried with nicotine patches, nicotine gum, cold turkey… but always the same story, after a few days I was in a...

Although I could stop for a couple of months I...

I thought stopping smoking was easy as I’d done it loads of times, 2 to 3 months at a time. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-twenties that it...

Three Steps I Took to Become Alcohol Free

"From the age of about 28, drinking would incorporate an all-inclusive package of five day hangovers, depression, panic attacks, poor motivation and fatigue. My productivity, health, relationships and bank balance...

Action on smoking and health (ASH) forced to issue clarification...

ASH omitted to point out that Snowdon (who wrote the opinion piece) is Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, an organisation which accepts funding from the...

I had a permanent voice inside reminding me how much...

I had a permanent voice inside reminding me how much of an idiot I was for being so irresponsible with my life and how normal and smart other people were...

I was convinced that it was impossible to get free....

Around three years after quitting I realised I needed a career change so I decided to write to Allen Carr’s Easyway. The recruitment process was really tough - some say...

I always pushed boundaries as a kid, wanting to hang...

Over the years, I smoked more and more and eventually ended up a chain-smoker (my strong lungs allowed me to do this) but into my early 30’s my health had...

Reckless Booze Adverts Make a Mockery of DrinkAware Campaigns!

It’s surely not coincidental that the only part of the "ENJOY RESPONSIBLY" logo that is actually readable to the passer-by is the word “ENJOY”. Whereas "ENJOY" is written in large...

I began smoking at 13 years of age - it...

I was just 9 years old when I convinced my...

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