Put the cigarette down!


These celebrities used to love puffing away on their cigarettes. However, they woke up and realised that that tobacco is very bad for your health and quit. But just how did they ditch the habit?




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Courteney Cox


With hopes of ending with her nicotine habit, ‘Friends’ actress Courteney Cox visited a hypnotist along with then-husband David Arquette. This was revealed by their assistant Whitney Smith who, in 2001, told USA Today they decided to do it together “because it is hard for one person in a relationship to quit”.




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Cameron Diaz


Diaz used to smoke 20 cigarettes-a-day but quit in 2000 when in training for ‘Charlie’s Angels’. She eventually started smoking again but ended up quitting once and for all because her parents were upset with her bad habit. Cameron said: “I was setting a bad example.”




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Katherine Heigl


‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star Heigl told The Washington Post that she tried lots of methods in order to stop smoking but none of them worked. Heigl unsuccessfully tried to use nicotine gum and patches, however, years later she told Parade that using an electronic cigarette was actually helping, since “you feel like you are smoking”.




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Charlize Theron


In 2011, ‘Bombshell’ and ‘Monster’ star Charlize told Vogue that she was “highly addicted” to cigarettes. But she beat her habit by using hypnotherapy.




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Jennifer Aniston


‘The Morning Show’ star Jennifer Aniston wrote a brief text for her yoga trainer’s book ‘Yogalosophy’ explaining how yoga helped her defeat her nicotine addiction. In the Mandy Ingber book she also revealed yoga helped her reduce her excessive caffeine consumption.




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Prince Harry


According to The Daily Mail, Prince Harry started smoking as a teenager. Prior to his wedding to Meghan Markle, however, Harry quit cigarettes and decided to live a healthier lifestyle.




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Paul Rudd


The ‘Ant-Man’ star gave hypnotherapy a chance in an effort to quit smoking. It turned out so well that he even helped other celebs who were struggling with the same problem, including Lynn Collins and Rashida Jones.




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Barack Obama


Former President of the United States Barack Obama struggled to stop smoking for several years. Everything changed, however, back in 2011 when his wife Michelle Obama announced her husband had not smoked for a year. Two years later he joked to NBC that what really helped stop lighting up was “he was scared of his wife”.




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Ashton Kutcher


During a 2006 interview with Jay Leno, ‘That ‘70s Show’ star Ashton Kutcher explained he was able to end his nicotine consumption thanks to the book ‘The Easy Way to Stop Smoking’ by Allen Carr. Ashton the publication features a method that encourages the reader to quit smoking gradually and not leaving it from one day to another.




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Jon Hamm


“It’s glamorous on film, but it’s not glamorous waking up and smelling like an ashtray”, the ‘Mad Men’ star told PEOPLE in 2007. While he did not reveal how he managed to quit cigs at the age of 24, he stated that the cigarettes his character Don Draper smokes, were actually herbal and did not include any tobacco.




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