Quitting Smoking
Katrina
SFX: Searing Cigarette Burning.
VO: The battle lines are drawn.
Katrina: It was my COPD diagnosis. I most likely would be walking around with an oxygen tank. It was messages from my children. But I finally came to believe that I could die.
SUPER: Every hour, of every day, someone in Massachusetts dies from cigarettes.
Katrina: It wasn’t enough for me to quit for the people that love me. I had to quit because I love myself.
SUPER: 1-800-Try-To-STOP
VO: Fight for your life. Quit now.
SUPER: © Massachusetts Department of Public Health
VO: The battle lines are drawn.
Katrina: It was my COPD diagnosis. I most likely would be walking around with an oxygen tank. It was messages from my children. But I finally came to believe that I could die.
SUPER: Every hour, of every day, someone in Massachusetts dies from cigarettes.
Katrina: It wasn’t enough for me to quit for the people that love me. I had to quit because I love myself.
SUPER: 1-800-Try-To-STOP
VO: Fight for your life. Quit now.
SUPER: © Massachusetts Department of Public Health
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