Determination

November 5th 1965 41 years old

i had breakfast and passed out for four hours. I had lunch abd passed out again for another four hours.

Next day when I lit a cigarette I could not breathe, because my lungs was full of mucus I was spitting out.

I made a promise to myself that if I lit another cigarette I would jump off a cliff in Newcastle.

Eight days later I could smell fresh air

Ten years later somone offered me a cigarette; my right hand went out towards the cigarette.

If I encounter second hand smoke I get a headache.

I have now lived 87 years. I would have been dead forty six years ago if I kept smoking.

I have doubled my life span by stopping smoking