How Ingrid's son helped her quit

For Ingrid, it was all about leaning on someone near and dear.

My addiction was making me sick, so I asked my son to take away my cigarettes in his care. When I needed a cigarette he would charge me $2.00 and I would have to pay him straight away. It was costing me so much that I quit from 20 a day, to 9 and then 3, to 1 and then none.

To buy the cigarettes and then be charged each cig. was going to cost me $53.00 a day, so I quickly lost interest. I've learnt not to be around a smoke environment after quitting as it takes 5 years to reduce the risk of stroke after you quit.