New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Paddy’s fear & loathing ‘We’re An Experiment’

Paddy Gower wishes his mother Joan could have vaped. It might have been the tool that saved her from a lifelong smoking addiction, which ultimately killed the 57-yearold medical receptionist.

“She smoked a pack of cigarettes a day since she was a teenager and tried everything to give up – hypnotism, nicotine patches, and my dad, sister and me all asking her to stop. She just couldn’t,” shares the popular broadcaster.

“Then Mum did the weirdest thing – she gave up smoking when she was diagnosed with terminal

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