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HEALTH; QUIT SMOKING FOR GOOD; Struggling to stub out the fags for National No Smoking Day on Wednesday 9 March? These celebs know what you're going through...(Features)
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Sunday Mirror (London, England)
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March 6, 2005
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Byline: Words: Lynne Michelle.
SUCCESSFULLY GAVE UP
LISA MAXWELL, 41
Lisa plays DS Samantha Nixon in The Bill
Started smoking: At 19, 22 years ago
Smoked how many: 30 a day
How she gave up: With hypnosis
`I'm embarrassed to tell you how I started smoking. When I was 19, my mum got some Harrods cigarettes, and I thought it'd be really posh to carry a pack round in my bag. People started commenting about me never actually lighting these cigs, so of course I tried one, then another... Before I knew it, I was hooked.
For the next 20 years I was a ...