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| • | quit - "Until eighteen months ago she smoked 60 cigarettes a day. A doctor told her to quit before she inflicted serious damage on her delicate body.", The Express on Sunday (UK) (Magazine), Sep. 28, '97 |
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| • | "I'm not a chain-smoker, but I like my cigarettes. I gave up completely for two years, and then made a film [Meteor, with Brenda Fricker and Alfred Molina] and must have been very insecure because I started again. Now it's like having this long-lost lover on the end of my finger", Radio Times (UK), May 2-8, '98 |
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| • | quit - "Kirwan as told of her hell when she kicked her 60-a-day cigarette habit. Dervla suffered the agony that all smokers go through when they quit. 'But I had to give up because I was feeling shattered all the time. My general health was really bad. Sometimes I was so ill I couldn't even walk upstairs. I had a wheezy cough like an 80-year-old and I knew that it was caused by my smoking and my skin was suffering. I was often out of breath and I didn't have any stamina. I just felt generally lousy and lethargic ... I would get up and have a cup of coffee and have a cigarette and then go to work without having had any breakfast and just keep on smoking - often about 60 a day. I was totally dependent on them. I started smoking when I was 15. I think I began because of peer pressure and my dad is a chain smoker. I enjoyed it from the start. Some people say they coughed a lot when they started but I didn't. Working on a film set didn't help because you are standing around for hours and a lot of people are smoking all the time. I was totally addicted ... I gave up and went completely cold turkey and didn't do the patches or anything ... When I gave up my face erupted. All the toxins came out and I got an acne-type reaction' ... She still misses the social side of smoking and still craves cigarettes. 'But I'm glad I've quit and now my skin is better and I smell better,' she says. 'I can taste things more and therefore I'm enjoying what I'm eating more and I think I respect myself more. I feel proud for stopping and I feel so much better - not to mention the hundreds of thousands of pounds I must have spent on it. It's a disgusting habit and it's really brought home to you when you read the statistics of the number of people who die of cancer caused by smoking. Not to mention the number of people suffering from asthma which is made worse by air polluted by cigarette smoke. You also realise that there is a great big con going on by cigarette manufacturers. They focus on young people and try to make them believe that it's hip and groovy to smoke which it's not. ... I really wish I'd never smoked", The People (UK), May 3, '98 |
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| • | "Has just taken up smoking again after having given up for 2 years. A reliable source informs me that she is now back to her 60 a day habit (tsk, tsk!). She freely admits to liking her cigarettes. 'It's like having a long-lost lover at the end of your fingers!'", website biography, '98
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| • | "I tried to give up then i started smoking again, it's like having an old friend at your fingertips", Radio Times (UK), c. '97-'99 |
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| • | quit - "She's wired by now, and buzzing ('Just given up smoking,' she says).", Sunday Express (Sunday Express Magazine supplement) (UK), Apr. 16, '00 |
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| • | quit - "I've also given up smoking (I was getting through about 25 cigarettes a day) with the help of a hypnotherapist", Radio Times (UK), Apr. 14-20, '01 |
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| • | quit - "She has recently become vegetarian and given-up smoking", website biography, '01
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| • | quit - "Another thing I'm really proud of is giving up smoking last year. I'd smoked for eight years, but it finally struck me what a horrible habit it is. I hated the lingering smell it left on my clothes and hair. Since giving up, I feel like a different person. I have much more energy, I'm more optimistic, and my skin and eyes are notably brighter. I just wish I'd done it sooner", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 19, '01
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| • | quit - "This inner peace is in stark contrast to the hyperactive, 60 cigarettes a day woman she was in her early and mid-twenties", The Times (UK), Jul. 14, '01 |
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| • | "Dervla Kirwan is a new woman after giving up meat, cigarettes and, finally, an old flame", "Earlier this year she gave up eating meat and quit smoking. 'I was getting through 20 cigarettes a day then had one session of hypnosis and gave up completely. It changed my life'", Sunday Express (UK), Jul. 29, '01 |
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| • | quit - "I had to give up. My health was really bad. Sometimes I was so ill I couldn't walk upstairs", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine), Aug. 11, '01 |
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| • | quit - "I gave up smoking on April 16th last year after one session of hypnotherapy. I've no idea what happened during the hypnosis but I haven't smoked since. I'd tried giving up before and failed miserably but I don't miss cigarettes now", Daily Express (UK), Oct. 23, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Dervla Kirwan is suffering for her art. After undergoing hypnotherapy to give up smoking, the porcelain-skinned ex-Ballykissangel star is obliged to puff on a fag for her role as Olwen Peel in the J B Priestly play Dangerous Corner. 'My cigarette has extra perforations in it [to make it milder], you can see me desperately trying to inhale...It hasn't made me want to start smoking again...but you know - once a smoker, always a smoker'", Daily Express (UK), Nov. 16, '01 |
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| • | quit - "she has given up smoking", Daily Express (UK), Nov. 17, '01 |
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| • | "We hear that the dark-haired actress is desperate to kick her 30 cigarettes-a-day habit. But the former Ballykissangel beauty has a slight problem - she has been ordered to smoke by management. Dervla, who is in the middle of a health kick involving running and yoga, is currently starring in A Dangerous Corner by JB Priestley at the Garrick Theatre. She must smoke one cigarette in each performance - and there are eight shows a week. By the time it ends in April she'll have got through five packs", Mirror (UK), Jan. 1, '02 |
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