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Archive for category: Smoking
04
March
2021

Make March your month to Quit

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer patient Jill Tsang is urging smokers to stub out the habit and Make March your Month to Quit. The 38-year-old Belfast mum stopped smoking on September 23, 2020, with help from the Cancer Focus Northern Ireland stop smoking service after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Cancer Focus NI sa...

12
November
2020

Mouth Cancer Awareness Month

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer charity urges ‘If in doubt – get checked out’  Cases of mouth cancer in Northern Ireland are expected to almost double between 2015 and 2035, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland said today.    Between 2014 and 2018 an average of 246 people in Northern Ireland were diagnosed with mouth cancer each y...

27
February
2020

Tony quit smoking after 40 years

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Tony Spence (54), a procurement manager from Belfast, is married to Martine and has a grown-up daughter. He started smoking when he was 14 in 1979. He used the Cancer Focus NI workplace stop smoking service last year and is smoke free at last. He says: “I started smoking because it was cool and I wa...