2022.02.10 - Radio 21 Germany - Interview with Slash

Excerpt from Blabbermouth:
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Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, who has not smoked since 2009, was asked in a new interview with Germany's Antenne Sylt what advice he had for millions of smokers who are trying to quit. He responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net): "Quitting smoking is the hardest thing I've ever quit. I can think of a lot of stuff that was hard to quit and smoking was the hardest. You just have to make that decision and then stick to it.

"I have to admit, when I quit, I had pneumonia, so for two weeks I couldn't breathe, let alone smoke, so that got me over the hump," he continued. "And then, from that point on, I used the patch and then I used Nicorette and then I was doing snus [a moist form of smokeless tobacco which is usually placed under the upper lip] and then regular gum. And I'm still chewing regular gum. And it's been [more than] 12 years. So you just have to make the decision and then you have to do it. But it's not easy."

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