{"id":779998,"date":"2026-09-23T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779998\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:26:19","slug":"smoking-took-years-away-from-my-dad-and-me-swindon-woman-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779998\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smoking took years away from my dad and me,\u2019 Swindon woman warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Nigel died, Katie decided to volunteer with Smokefree South West, a partnership of 15 local authorities working alongside the NHS to support people trying to quit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also works in public health in Swindon, which means she has access to healthcare professionals, pharmacies and community services to recommend to people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think I&#8217;m able to share that message that quitting smoking is one of the best things people can do for their health and that it&#8217;s not too late to quit smoking and have more time with your family members,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve seen a decline in adult smoking, but I think that masks quite profound health inequalities. Some people from our more deprived communities are more likely to smoke and experience more of the health harms from smoking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Nigel died, Katie decided to volunteer with Smokefree South West, a partnership of 15 local authorities working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}