{"id":232,"date":"2014-11-24T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:37:19","slug":"dont-smoke-mum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/1972-1974\/dont-smoke-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Smoke Mum!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d never known my Mum to have a lot of will power. It couldn’t have been easy, but one day Mum decided to try and quit smoking, and Kim and I decided to help her.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Mum seemed happy here. The kitchen behind her is filled with various oddities that seemed right at home, such as the Leprechaun coffee mug on the counter behind her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I remember her hands shaking and her fingers fumbling as she tried “not to smoke”. While Mum was in the kitchen twiddling her hair, fussing and fretting, and generally having a serious conflict of conscience, Kim and I started our own little anti-smoking support campaign. Soon, pictures of beloved Sesame Street characters began covering doors and walls throughout the trailer. When Mum saw a crude likeness of Cookie Monster with a cigarette in his mouth and the words “Don’t Smoke!” scrawled underneath, she burst out laughing. “Ohhh, my darlings!”<\/p>\n

Soon afterwards, the cigarettes came out of the trash and Mum celebrated her attempt at being a non-smoker with a nice, relaxing cigarette.<\/p>\n

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Not the original drawing, but an amazing simulation!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’d never known my Mum to have a lot of will power. It couldn’t have been easy, but one day Mum decided to try and quit smoking, and Kim and I decided to help her. I remember her hands shaking and her fingers fumbling as she tried “not to smoke”. While Mum was in the … Continue reading Don’t Smoke Mum!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":217,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/2585"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}