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Ruby Wax
  • Quit = Probably has
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

  • Miscellaneous information
              •  "Although I gave up in June after being hypnotised, for the past 10 years I've been addicted to nicotine gum. I wasn't smoking at the same time, but the gum does all kinds of damage to your body, too", Daily Telegraph (UK), Sep. 26, '05
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  quit - "gave up cigarettes - then spent five years trying to stop chewing the nicotine gum she had turned to. 'It got to the point I had to chew a piece every hour,' she said. 'I tried to just go cold turkey but found it impossible.' Wax turned to TV hypnotist Paul McKenna. After one session, in which it was suggested that when she chewed the gum she would taste Marmite, she was able to stop", London Evening Standard (UK), Jul. 8, '03
              •  quit - "Stars such as Kate Moss, Anna Friel and Ruby Wax have all struggled with the deadly weed....Ruby Wax gave up cigarettes - and then found it hard to stop chewing nicotine gum", North-East Health News (UK), Jul. 11, '03
              •  quit - "gave up smoking 12 years ago but remained hooked on nicotine for another ten years", The Sun (UK), Oct. 17, '08
              •  quit - "I smoked for most of my life and I spent 10 years on nicotine gum, which I think comes to tens of thousands of pounds, which is disgusting. I think you're more hooked on cigarettes than you are on heroin", The Observer (UK), Aug. 30, '09
              •  quit -"Then there were the cigarettes, also now ditched", Jewish Chronicle (UK), Feb. 10, '11
              •  quit - "had to turn to celebrity hypnotist Paul McKenna to help her stop smoking permanently", Scottish Evening Times (UK), when?
              •  quit - "I went to see [stop smoking expert] Allen Carr it took no willpower, I didn't gain weight ..thank God I'm free! If it can work for me - it can work for you", website
              •  quit - "In 1983 he (Allen Carr) discovered an easy way to quit and has since devoted his life to helping others kick the habit including the well-known faces of Richard Branson, Leslie Grantham, Jerry Hall and Ruby Wax.", website, when?

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