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| • | quit - "* MOST IMPORTANT LIFE DECISION? 'Giving up smoking a year ago - I was on 20 a day. I don't miss it, except at work. Lee's thrilled. He made me stand in the garden to smoke'", Daily Mail (UK), Sep. 17, '92 |
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| • | "I used to smoke, but I gave it up when trying to get pregnant with Joe and then stupidly went back to it for a while. Lee [her husband] can't bear cigarettes, though I have seen him smoking a cigar", The Express (UK), Dec. 30, '97 |
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| • | "In the last year, I've started smoking again. It's really daft. I smoked for years, then we decided to have children, so I gave up when I was trying to get pregnant. I went back to it after having Joe (our oldest son), and did the same thing all over again for Max. Now, knowing I don't want any more children, I haven't got the same incentive to give up", Daily Express (UK), Jul. 1, '99 |
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| • | "drawing heavily on a low-tar", Sunday Express (UK), Sep. 12, '99 |
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| • | "I should give up smoking, but I'm on about 15 to 20 a day", The Independent (UK), Oct. 2, '99 |
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| • | "Obviously, I shouldn't be smoking - between 15 and 20 cigarettes a day - and in an attempt to conquer the habit, I had hypnotherapy some years ago. Sadly it didn't work for me. I lit up as soon as I got home", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 14, '99 |
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| • | "Government attempts to find a high-profile smoker to give up on New Year's Day failed when Leslie Ash pulled out, saying that she didn't think she could commit to it", The Observer (UK), Dec. 26, '99
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| • | "I've smoked since I was about 15...I once gave up for five years, it was stupid to go back. But I sense that it's nearly out of my system. I hate it. I'm on 20 a day. I'd like to say it's a social thing, but it's not", The Mirror (UK), Jul. 14, '00 |
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| • | "I'm trying to give up smoking - I'm down to five cigarettes aday.", Teletext (UK), Apr. 10, '01 |
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| • | "Leslie draws on her cigarette, a habit both her boys are bullying her into quitting. 'I never light up in front of them, but if they find my cigarettes they hide them or cut them up. I'm down to five a day, but I'm determined to stop altogether'", Sunday Mirror (UK), Apr. 15, '01 |
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| • | "As part of her healthy lifestyle, Leslie has given up smoking - well, almost. 'I've cut down from 40 a day to just one - and I feel so much better for it,' she enthuses. 'My skin has certainly improved'", The Sun (The TV Mag supplement) (UK), Apr. 21, '01 |
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| • | "Smoking is bad for you - I'm trying to give up myself", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 21, '01 |
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| • | "confesses she should be re-named Fag Ash Lil. 'I've been trying to pack in smoking for years...I'm forever having a furtive ciggy when they're [her young sons] not around and then hiding the packet...The only pleasure from smoking I seem to get is when I unexpectedly discover a packet I've hidden and then forgotten about'", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 9, '02 |
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| • | "Don't mention: Smoking - Leslie's been trying to give up for years. She says: 'I'm forever having a furtive ciggy when the boys aren't around'", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Apr. 20, '02 |
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| • | "Leslie took up kick-boxing, and although she still hasn't cracked her 20-a-day habit - 'I'm a slave to cigarettes, but at 42 I shouldn't be smoking' - she sticks to a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet", Woman's Own (UK), Jan. 13, '03
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| • | "As well as having collagen implanted into her lips, she had fat inserted into the area between nose and lips to iron out wrinkles caused by smoking", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 28, '03
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| • | "had fat inserted into the area between nose and lips to iron out wrinkles caused by smoking", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 28, '03
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| • | quit - "Q: Do you have any vices? A: It used to be smoking. I gave up when I wanted to conceive but I started again when I was filming Men Behaving Badly, because everyone else on the set smoked. It was so stupid. [Husband] Lee hated it, and the boys used to take my cigarettes and cut them up. But I'm proud to say that, with the help of patches, I finally kicked the habit", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Jul. 6, '03 |
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| • | quit - "Her father's illness has also finally persuaded Leslie to give up cigarettes. She's smoked since she was a teenager and before kicking the habit four months ago she smoked 20 to 40 cigarettes a day. 'I did it with patches and don't think I'll ever smoke again. I knew if I didn't stop, it would end up killing me. Besides, Lee and the kids really hated me smoking. I already feel so much better. That horrible morning cough has gone. It's amazing. I really don't think I'll go back to it'", Sunday Mirror (UK), Aug. 3, '03
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| • | "being a smoker, I'd started to get little lines above my lips", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine), Nov. 15, '03 |
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| • | quit - "I gave up smoking four months ago", Radio Times (UK), Dec. 6-12, '03 |
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| • | quit - "I have grown my nails, stopped smoking and drinking and am thinner than I've been for years", Sunday Mirror (UK), Jul. 25, '04
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| • | quit - "I don't smoke or drink any more", Daily Mirror (UK), Aug. 2, '05 |
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| • | "My top lip had all but disappeared - a result of being a smoker and hitting my 40s - and I had gone to a plastic surgeon to have it plumped up with silicone injections", Mail on Sunday (UK), Aug. 26, '07
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| • | "I'm trying to give up smoking", website interview, when?
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