Did you know? : Smokers who use Stop Smoking Wales are four times more likely to quit
Case Study - Janet Igoe
A serious illness at Christmas 2007 gave 62-year-old Janet Igoe from Townhill, Swansea, a “wake up call” that she needed to pack in the cigarettes for good.
Smoking in excess of 400 cigarettes a week for nearly 50 years had taken its toll on Janet’s health. Her near-death experience gave her good reason to evaluate her life and the negative effects smoking was having on her well-being.
Being realistic and knowing that packing in the cigarettes would need great determination and willpower after nearly 50 years of smoking, Janet recruited the help of the Stop Smoking Wales service. Her daughter, Jane also decided to support her mother and stopped smoking at the same time.
A meeting was set up with Stop Smoking Wales for both mother and daughter and a quit date was set. Now, after more than three months without touching a cigarette, Janet and Jane are reaping the health benefits of quitting smoking.
Janet is now enjoying walking everywhere and is saving herself a fortune in taxi costs. Janet said: “I have so much more energy now that I don’t have to take taxis everywhere, I’ll just walk instead!”
Research has shown that just eight hours after stopping smoking, the levels of carbon monoxide and nicotine in the blood are cut by half, and by 48 hours, there is no nicotine left in the body
Janet added: “I’ll be realistic - it isn’t easy giving up cigarettes at times, but access to services to help you quit couldn’t be easier. The support I have received from Stop Smoking Wales and its trained specialists has been wonderful and without them I would have struggled to do it.”
Janet and Jane both used nicotine patches to help overcome their nicotine withdrawal.
Also proving invaluable were the weekly sessions held locally by Stop Smoking Wales that gave Janet and Jane the help and motivation to keep off the cigarettes.
So nearly fifty years later, Janet can now officially call herself smoke-free and is a great role model in showing it’s never too late to give up!
Smoking in excess of 400 cigarettes a week for nearly 50 years had taken its toll on Janet’s health. Her near-death experience gave her good reason to evaluate her life and the negative effects smoking was having on her well-being.
Being realistic and knowing that packing in the cigarettes would need great determination and willpower after nearly 50 years of smoking, Janet recruited the help of the Stop Smoking Wales service. Her daughter, Jane also decided to support her mother and stopped smoking at the same time.
A meeting was set up with Stop Smoking Wales for both mother and daughter and a quit date was set. Now, after more than three months without touching a cigarette, Janet and Jane are reaping the health benefits of quitting smoking.
Janet is now enjoying walking everywhere and is saving herself a fortune in taxi costs. Janet said: “I have so much more energy now that I don’t have to take taxis everywhere, I’ll just walk instead!”
Research has shown that just eight hours after stopping smoking, the levels of carbon monoxide and nicotine in the blood are cut by half, and by 48 hours, there is no nicotine left in the body
Janet added: “I’ll be realistic - it isn’t easy giving up cigarettes at times, but access to services to help you quit couldn’t be easier. The support I have received from Stop Smoking Wales and its trained specialists has been wonderful and without them I would have struggled to do it.”
Janet and Jane both used nicotine patches to help overcome their nicotine withdrawal.
Also proving invaluable were the weekly sessions held locally by Stop Smoking Wales that gave Janet and Jane the help and motivation to keep off the cigarettes.
So nearly fifty years later, Janet can now officially call herself smoke-free and is a great role model in showing it’s never too late to give up!