Look who made front page news! Catherine Solomon, a Year 11 Student from Adelaide, recently became a media celebrity, after being our Guest Blogger in July 2013! By sharing her personal story of smoking and quitting via the No Smokes Guest Blog , Catherine got the attention of people from all over the country, and became a mini-celebrity along the way. […]
Look who made front page news!?
Blog Day 12 – Catherine Solomon ‘The rest of my life’
By quitting smoking I have better chances of having kids, younger looking skin, whiter teeth, cleaner looking fingernails, better breathing and less stress. I am saving up to $120 every two weeks. My money is spent on things I don’t already have, things I really need and fun things; like going out to the cinemas […]
Blog day 10 – Catherine Solomon ‘My life as a non-smoker’
My life now as a non-smoker is good; I no longer feel the need to have a cigarette, my asthma is much better than what it used to be, I have more money in my pockets and I just feel much healthier. Everyday I go to school I watch my classmates walk to and from […]
Blog day 8 – Catherine Solomon ‘Giving up the smokes’
Quitting cigarettes was really easy for me. I found it easy because I knew I wasn’t allowed to smoke in front of my mother and father so going home was good for me. By quitting smoking I felt much healthier, my asthma still remains but it is easier to breathe and I hardly get any […]
Blog day 5 – Catherine Solomon ‘Why I decided to quit’
One of the main reasons I decided to quit smoking is my asthma. I started to get sick almost all the time. I was always coughing, wheezing and my chest felt tight almost all the time. I got sick of waking up early in the morning trying to cough and not being at home I […]
Blog day 3 – Catherine Solomon ‘My life as a smoker’
Catherine Solomon is a 17 y.o. student from Warriappendi School in Adelaide, and is our guest blogger for July. “My life as a smoker brought me down as I had less money on me because I spent it on cigarettes, when I should’ve been buying things I really need. How much smoking was costing me […]
Blog day 1 – Catherine Solomon ‘My smoking history’
My smoking history, by Catherine Solomon. I started smoking early this year because of peer pressure. I was always around a big gang of people who smoked. They were all good people, just being around them made me feel like I should join them in whatever they were doing; smoking, drinking, not going to school, […]