Sharon Sullivan
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I smoked for 31 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.
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?