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Giving up smoking

  • Overview
  • Starting and continuing to smoke
    • Parents, friends and first cigarettes
    • Smoking: memories and experiences
    • Nicotine, dependence and cravings
    • Cannabis, alcohol and coffee and smoking
    • The image of smoking and smoking in secret
  • Motivations to quit
    • First thinking about quitting
    • Life events and their effect on people’s motivation to stop smoking
    • Appearance and physical health affects of smoking
    • Smoking related diseases
    • The role of others in the decision to quit
    • Changing culture, public health campaigns and the smoking ban
    • Money and smoking
  • Trying different ways to stop smoking
    • Help from pharmacists, GPs, and Nicotine Replacement Therapies
    • Electronic cigarettes
    • Complementary approaches to quitting
    • Going it alone
    • Giving up smoking with others and online support
    • ‘Cutting down’, unsuccessful attempts and trying again
  • Reflections on giving up
    • Reflecting on relapses
    • Unsolicited advice from health professionals, family and friends
    • Messages to other smokers
    • Effects of not smoking
    • Being a non-smoker
  • People's Profiles
    • 20-30
    • 31-40
    • 41-50
    • 51-60
    • 61-71
    • Health professionals
  • Resources and Information
  • Credits

Giving up smoking

Profiles - 51-60

Debbie

Debbie is married with adult children. She works part-time as a council officer. Ethnic background: British.

Rosanna

Rosanna is divorced and has three adult children. She is an academic working in the field of health research. Ethnic background: White British.

Carol

Munir

Caroline

Bethan

Blodwen

Keith

Gareth

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