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| • | "She smokes menthol cigarettes, and plans to give up in about three years", The Observer (UK), Aug. 3, '97
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| • | quit - "Natasha is also vice-free, having recently given up a 40-a-day cigarette habit. 'I feel very pleased with myself' she says smugly", The Express (UK) (Saturday supplement), Jul. 4, '98 |
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| • | quit - "you've managed to give up smoking. 'And I'm so incredibly proud of myself. I'd only been doing it for two years yet I was up to 40 a day. It had got to the point where I couldn't contemplate getting up in the morning and having a cup of coffee if a cigarette wasn't involved. So I just stopped, dead, like that. No patches. No substitute cigarettes. Nothing. The only problem is, my friends tell me I've been a complete pain ever since'", The Times (UK), Oct. 31, '98 |
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| • | quit - "Last year, Natasha Little gave up smoking. She used to smoke 40 a day, but hasn't touched a cigarette since ... It takes a certain strength of character to be addicted to 40 cigarettes a day and then give them up just like that ... Little sits very still, barely touching her glass of water and displaying none of the fidgety nervousness that you might reasonably expect from a former heavy smoker", The Times (UK), Jul. 31, '99 |
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| • | quit - "When I smoked, I couldn't [imagine] life without cigarettes. The thought of quitting terrified me so much that when I did actually quit, it was nowhere near as difficult as I'd thought it was going to be", Quit and Win website, May 18, '01
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| • | quit - "this, after all, is a woman who gave up a 40-a-day cigarette habit overnight by sheer force of will", The Observer (UK), Mar. 17, '02
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| • | quit - "despite her fitness regime, she still misses smoking, even though she gave up nearly four years ago. 'I was a heavy, 40-a-day smoker', she says. 'People couldn't imagine me without a cigarette in my hand. But I hated being addicted and I never felt truly relaxed because I was constantly looking for the chance to have my next cigarette. I couldn't imagine having a coffee or a meal without one. I went out with a pregnant friend and felt ashamed because I couldn't enjoy myself - I just wanted to smoke. Giving up was difficult, but not as hard as I thought it would be. I've got so much more energy nowadays. Plus I don't wake up feeling like I'm hungover, which is one of the awful side-effects of smoking. I haven't missed it much, although lately the urge has come back'", The Mirror (UK), Mar. 30, '02 |
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| • | quit -"Five years after beating her 40-a-day addiction, actress Natasha Little, 33, from East London, almost got hooked again last summer. She says: 'I started smoking when I was 14, but it was only something I did occasionally, at parties. When I was in my early 20s, after I left drama school and started working, the amount I was smoking increased quite drastically. Most of my friends smoked and before I knew it, I was getting through 40 a day. I genuinely thought smoking relaxed me, but looking back I realise just how much it was stressing me out. My whole life seemed to revolve around when and where I could light up my next cigarette. I started thinking about stopping when I was in my 20s. Lots of my friends were having children and I didn't want to smoke around them. Then a friend of mine who smoked was diagnosed with testicular cancer in his late 20s. Thankfully, he recovered. I quit five years ago, between Christmas and New Year 1997. Recently I relapsed. I was out for dinner with friends and thought I'll just have one. I didn't enjoy it, but I found myself having another and another. I smoked my head off for two weeks then thought I could so easily get addicted again and I stopped. Now I'm much more cautious, because I realise I'm only ever one cigarette away from being a smoker again'", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 31, '02 |
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| • | "Natasha officially stopped smoking five years ago, but sometimes finds herself with an urge to light up again. 'I have had relapses, but I'm still not a smoker,' she says defiantly. 'I do have the occasional cigarette though'. She says she doesn't know why she does it, as every time she smokes, she's 'really glad' she's not a smoker. 'Sometimes I just think, so what? But then I think there are a lot of good reasons why I shouldn't smoke. It's just so addictive'", Coventry Evening Telegraph (UK), Feb. 15, '03 |
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| • | "Aside from the odd cigarette, Natasha has few vices but is a perfectionist", Glasgow Evening Times (UK), Feb. 15, '03 |
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| • | "Sweet girls might not have found themselves smoking 40 cigarettes a day. Natasha officially stopped smoking five years ago, but sometimes finds herself with an urge to light up again. 'I have had relapses, but I'm still not a smoker,' she says defiantly. 'I do have the occasional cigarette though'", Newcastle Journal (UK), Dec. 16, '03
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