'I got cancer TWICE from smoking and nearly died - now I'm trying to save lives'

'I got cancer TWICE from smoking and nearly died - now I'm trying to save lives'Wendy Robinson's decision to quit smoking saved her life seven years later when she was diagnosed with lung cancerCommentsNewsLucy Thornton News Reporter06:00, 08 Apr 2026Turn the Corner Stop Smoking AdvertA mum who nearly died twice because of smoking has become the face of a new quit campaign because giving up saved her family.‌Wendy Robinson and her daughter Amy Robinson are helping to launch the ‘Turn the Corner’ campaign. Wendy from Cleethorpes quit smoking after watching her mum unable to breathe as she died of COPD and determined her daughter Amy would not have to watch her suffer in the same way.‌Unfortunately, seven years after quitting, Wendy was diagnosed with kidney cancer and then lung cancer caused by smoking.‌But because she’d already quit her lungs had recovered enough for her to have life-saving surgery - which wouldn’t have been an option if she was still smoking.View 3 ImagesWendy and Amy Robinson take part in a quit smoking campaign wanting to spread the news giving up could save your lifeWendy’s daughter, Amy from Hull, also smoked but seeing her mum go through cancer made her stop and a month later she found out she was pregnant with her first child.‌Wendy said: “I’m thrilled to be here to see that. I wouldn’t have been if I’d carried on smoking. I owe my lung surgeon my life. He explained to me it wouldn't have been considered if I was still smoking. Wow, I’m so glad I stopped.”Wendy, now 54, was just 12 years old when she started smoking and ended up smoking 40 a day.She quit after watching her mum suffer: “It broke my heart going to see her intensive care, saying, ‘I can't breathe, can't breathe. I didn’t want my daughter to sit at my bed and see me like this, so that made me stop . I must admit I did fail quite a few times.”‌But then seven years after quitting doctors found some cancerous cysts on her kidney and had to cut it o...