Quitting Smoking
Kendyl
SFX: Searing cigarette burning
VO: With every battle, there are scars.
Kendyl: I had been smoking since I was nine years old. I got really sick. I had bronchitis, pneumonia and ended up with asthma.
Super: Every hour of every day someone in Massachusetts dies from cigarettes.
Kendyl: I gave 33 years of my life to a pack of cigarettes. Quitting smoking was the hardest fight ever. I fought. And I made it.
VO: It’s a battle that can be won.
Super: 1-800-Try-To-STOP
VO: Fight for your life. Quit now.
Super: © Massachusetts Department of Public Health
VO: With every battle, there are scars.
Kendyl: I had been smoking since I was nine years old. I got really sick. I had bronchitis, pneumonia and ended up with asthma.
Super: Every hour of every day someone in Massachusetts dies from cigarettes.
Kendyl: I gave 33 years of my life to a pack of cigarettes. Quitting smoking was the hardest fight ever. I fought. And I made it.
VO: It’s a battle that can be won.
Super: 1-800-Try-To-STOP
VO: Fight for your life. Quit now.
Super: © Massachusetts Department of Public Health
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