Karen Sumpter, 73, from Scunthorpe smoked for over fifty-five years before a health scare over the festive period made her realise, she needed to quit before it was too late. Karen had been fighting a chest infection for a few weeks and was struggling to breathe. So, she went to see her GP who referred her to a specialist stop smoking advisor at the Ironstone Centre, who has transformed Karen’s life.

“I started smoking when I was sixteen, as it was the in thing back then and socially everyone was smoking. I never really thought about how much I was smoking – it just crept up and I ended up smoking 40 cigarettes a day.