Sharon Sullivan

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Liveline · "Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves" · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

I smoked for 31 years.

10 years.

I'm 10 years off them.

I got very sick and ended up in hospital on oxygen.

I couldn't breathe.

And I was kept in hospital then for nearly a week.

And they told me if I continued to smoke, that within a year I would be on oxygen 24-7.

So I said, no way.

I won't go around with a tank of oxygen hanging out with me.

Very easy.

I don't mean that in flippant, but I don't know, it was just in the morning time, say, when I'd get up in the morning, I could have four or five one after another within the space of an hour, an hour and a half.

Yeah, yeah.

And then throughout the day, I'd be just

It was just non-stop.

I permanently had a fag in my hand, to be honest.

Horrendous.

I'd done the first week and I did actually think I was going to die without having a fag.

I just found it so, so hard.

And then somebody, one of my own, I think, said, would I not try today?

And I did.

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