| • | "I started smoking at 13 on my first school trip. We went to Bath and we all wanted to do something grown-up, so we decided we'd smoke on the school trip and stop as soon as we got back. We thought the cigarettes tasted absolutely disgusting, but we persevered", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Jul. 16, '05 | |
| • | quit - "I was very slim up until the age of 34, when I had Louis. I packed in smoking, and being pregnant was an excuse to overeat", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Sep. 9, '06 | |
| • | quit - "successfully gave up smoking in January this year", Uxbridge Gazette, Dec. 7, '10 |
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| • | "In the BBC1 movie 'Murder In Mind', the part of Tara was originally written for soul diva Lisa Stansfield but she dropped out at the last minute and Sam was only too delighted to step into her shoes. 'At first I don't think they planned to get me to sing that much, but I sang at the audition and now I'm doing five songs. I was taught jazz by a wonderfully talented musician, Brian Bennet - the former drummer of The Shadows - who told me to go out, stay up late, drink alcohol and smoke lots of cigarettes in order to get into the part'", The Express (UK), Mar. 20, '02 |
| • | quit - "I used to need between 10 and 12 hours [of sleep] when I was a smoker. I gave up smoking and now I happily get by on six or seven hours", "I gave up smoking five months ago. I have a will of iron so I can give up easily. It's long term I can't do. I was hypnotised by Paul McKenna after trying to stop for five years. I had one session with him and now I just have no desire to smoke. I used to smoke about 30 a day", Scottish Daily Record, Aug. 19, '98 | |
| • | said she use to smoke 40 a day until she meet Paul McKennna (a hypnotist) and he made her stop, GMTV, Jun. 22, '99 | |
| • | quit - "she had a cancer scare at 17 which encouraged her to give up smoking", Mail on Sunday (Night & Day supplement) (UK), Sep. 30, '01 | |
| • | no - "Don't smoke, don't drink, what do you do? 'I don't really have any vices'", Loaded (UK), Oct. '01, p. 124 | |
| • | "'She likes to party in a beer-swilling, chain-smoking kind of way,' says an acquaintance", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 13, '02 |