Giving up smoking

• Overview
• Starting and continuing to smoke
  • Parents, friends and first cigarettes
  • Smoking: memories and experiences
  • Nicotine, dependence and cravings
  • Cannabis, alcohol and coffee and smoking
  • The image of smoking and smoking in secret
• Motivations to quit
  • First thinking about quitting
  • Life events and their effect on people’s motivation to stop smoking
  • Appearance and physical health affects of smoking
  • Smoking related diseases
  • The role of others in the decision to quit
  • Changing culture, public health campaigns and the smoking ban
  • Money and smoking
• Trying different ways to stop smoking
  • Help from pharmacists, GPs, and Nicotine Replacement Therapies
  • Electronic cigarettes
  • Complementary approaches to quitting
  • Going it alone
  • Giving up smoking with others and online support
  • ‘Cutting down’, unsuccessful attempts and trying again
• Reflections on giving up
  • Reflecting on relapses
  • Unsolicited advice from health professionals, family and friends
  • Messages to other smokers
  • Effects of not smoking
  • Being a non-smoker
• People's Profiles
  • 20-30
  • 31-40
  • 41-50
  • 51-60
  • 61-71
  • Health professionals
• Resources and Information
• Credits