| • | "What was your first vice and what are your vices now? 'Sucking my thumb until Mum offered me a fiver to stop. I smoke now.'", TV Quick, Nov. 27-Dec. 3, '99 | |
| • | "Fans of sexy Casualty star Claire Goose can watch as she goes through agony trying to quit smoking. BBC1 cameras will follow her for five morning programmes as she uses acupuncture, patches, counselling and other methods. Twenty-a-day Claire, 24, said: 'If I can give up cigarettes, I'll feel like a real winner'", News of the World (UK), Feb. 27, '00 | |
| • | "I want to quit for my health. Also, girls who don't smoke seem to attract the sexiest guys. That's a good incentive to me.", The Sun (The TV Mag supplement), Mar. 4, '00 | |
| • | "I didn't smoke at all 'til I started on Casualty. Working on set there's a lot of time where you have a scene off; out of habit you go to the smoking room and light up", "I've never thought about giving up before - but now I really want to. We work 15 hour days and I feel tired a lot of the time. I hope giving up smoking will give me my energy back", Casualty Kicks the Habit (BBC), Mar. 6-10, '00 | |
| • | "Vices: 'Smoking! The ciggies have got to go. The good thing is I know I don't want to smoke for the rest of my life so it's got to stop at some point'", Woman's Own (UK), Jun. 11, '01 | |
| • | quit - "four weeks ago, I started with a personal trainer because I stopped smoking ... I think that's why I kept smoking for so long. I thought: 'I can't bear the thought of putting on weight. What a nightmare!'", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 15, '01 | |
| • | "I'm afraid I smoke. I know I will stop one day, but I smoke when I'm bored", News of the World (UK), Jun. 17, '01 | |
| • | quit - "What are your bad habits? 'I've just stopped my worst one, which was smoking'", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Jun. 30, '01 | |
| • | quit - "me and Jon have both given up smoking", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 30, '01 | |
| • | quit - "shocked into giving up smoking after benign lumps found [in her breasts]", Daily Express (UK), Jul. 6, '01 | |
| • | quit - "Claire Goose has revealed how a cancer scare made her quit smoking. Blonde Claire, 26, had tests after finding lumps in both her breasts. But docs told the anxious actress that they were not cancerous. 'I thought I'd fall to pieces, but it was more like, 'Let's get it sorted'.' She had the scare while filming recent BBC1 thriller Waking the Dead, and has not smoked since", The Sun (UK), Jul. 6, '01 | |
| • | quit - "I gave up smoking", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Sep. 9, '01 | |
| • | quit - "Not surprisingly, the events of the past 12 months have changed Claire's approach to life and love. Determined to take better care of her health, she quit her 20-a-day smoking habit and has made some radical changes to her diet", The Mirror (UK), Aug. 31, '02 | |
| • | quit - "when it comes to puffing on a cigarette, she has knocked her 20-a-day habit firmly on the head - after a succession of cancer scares. 'I got the feeling that somebody, somewhere, was trying to tell me something, so I gave up...I felt something needed to be done. I used nicotine patches to get me over the worst. And now, nine months after I gave up, I don't even think about having a cigarette...But I'm worried that if I landed a role where I had to smoke I might get hooked again! I definitely feel better, although it has meant my routine on Waking the Dead has changed. I used to disappear for a quick cigarette between scenes. Now I stick around and chat, so giving up has actually made me more sociable!' ", What's on TV (UK), Aug. 31-Sep. 6, '02 | |
| • | quit - "The difficult times made Claire re-evaluate her health. She gave up her 20-a-day cigarette habit, cut out junk food and is now a gym regular", Evening Times (UK), Sep. 2, '02 | |
| • | quit - "Once I started working again, I stopped smoking", Express 'S' Magazine, Aug. '02 | |
| • | quit - "has given up smoking - she used to puff her way through 20 cigarettes a day", Newcastle Evening Chronicle (UK), Sep. 2, '02 | |
| • | quit - "I gave up smoking", Pink Ribbon Magazine, Oct. '02 | |
| • | quit - "I've given up smoking", OK Magazine, Nov. 20, '02 | |
| • | quit - "finally quitting smoking. 'I don't even have the cravings any more,' she says. 'I haven't smoked for nearly two years now'", TV Times (UK), Sep. 13-19, '03 | |
| • | quit - "I've kicked cigarettes to the extent that I now can't think of anything worse than lighting up", The Sun (UK), Sep. 20, '03 | |
| • | quit - "I did stop smoking", Daily Express (Saturday magazine) (UK), Oct. 25, '03 | |
| • | quit - "Having recently given up smoking and taken up running. 'I have stayed off the fags'", Sunday Mirror (UK), Jan. 23, '05 | |
| • | quit - "I stopped smoking", Sunday People (UK), Oct. 22, '06 | |
| • | "Q. You were recently seen on 'Kick the Habit' trying to give up smoking, did you succeed and do you feel better for it? A. Pass!", Casualty Files website, when? | |
| • | quit - "And me and Jon have given up smoking!", Casualty Files website, when? |