One of the hardest habits in the world to kick is a consistent craving to smoke. Cigarettes are generally know to be pretty unhealthy to those smoking as well as those in the immediate vicinity.
Cigarettes and cigars are filled with tobacco and nicotine, the latter being one of the most addictive ingredients to exist on this entire planet! Unfortunately, a lot of celebrities have found themselves hooked on cigarettes and cigars over the years. The good thing is that these particular celebs like Lady Gaga were able to leave their bad habit in the past.
10 Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd is such a great actor and it is hard to picture him smoking a cigarette but in reality, he was once a serious smoker! Seeing him in Marvel movies, as well as comedies and sitcoms, has become a regular thing for entertainment consumers all over the world. He was able to quit smoking with the help of a hypnotherapist named Kerry Gaynor. She helped him kick the habit using a method that actually worked for him.
9 Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow successfully quit smoking after being an avid smoker during her teenage years. As a team, she would smoke two packs a day! That is a lot… It sounds pretty excessive. Her father passed away from cancer in 2002 from smoking but that didn’t push her in the direction of stopping either. She decided to stop smoking after she found out she was pregnant with her first daughter. The pregnancy is what pushed her in the right direction.
8 Keith Richards
Keith Richards is the guitarist from Rolling Stones. He admitted in February 2020 that he was able to cut off his cigarette smoking habit back in 2019. He has a difficult history revolving around the use of alcohol and drugs so the fact that he was able to kick the cigarette bad habit is extremely impressive. He admitted that quitting nicotine was harder to quit the heroin but that he was able to finally let the addiction go by cutting down the number of cigarettes he was smoking per day until he was done smoking altogether.
7 Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen is a model and a lot of models collectively can agree that smoking is not good for someone in their profession since they earn money based on their appearance! Models are able to stay in the game longer when they are able to maintain youthful appearance and smoking really takes a lot of that away.
She revealed that in 2003 she decided to pursue a healthier lifestyle by getting rid of her smoking habit and replacing it with meditation and yoga.
6 Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones was photographed smoking cigarettes while she was pregnant in 2003. It caused a lot of backlash in her life because many people were extremely offended by the fact that she would put her unborn child at risk. It’s general knowledge that smoking causes a lot of issues to a pregnant woman and her unborn child. It can even cause the child to be stillborn. In 2005, she vowed to stop smoking in honor of her children.
5 Prince Harry
As shocking as this might sound, Prince Harry was once a smoker! These days he’s happily married to Megan Markel and the two of them make a very beautiful couple. Way before he cross paths with Megan Markel though, he was smoking cigarettes as a teenager.
He continued smoking habit for several years and struggle to let it go. Finally, with the help of a nutritional advisor he was able to give up cigarettes as well as improve his diet and lose a bit of weight.
4 Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa is everyone’s favorite talkshow host and soap opera actress. She has such an infectious personality with a beautiful outlook on life to match. Watching her on TV as an actress and spokes person has always been an enjoyable experience because of what an incredible woman she is. She admitted that she used to smoke in secret but that she decided to give it up because she wanted to be able to watch her kids grow up without a decline in her health.
3 Barack Obama
When Barack Obama was just a teenager, he started smoking cigarettes! Around the time of his 2008 campaign, he decided to start his first attempt at quitting cigarettes smoking. By the time 2011 came around and he went through his periodic physical exam, physicians took note of the fact that he was internally tobacco free. He had successfully been able to kick the habit. He claimed that Michelle Obama was the reason he needed to stop because he feared her disapproval.
2 Anthony Hopkins
Silence of the lambs actor Anthony Hopkins was able to officially quit smoking in order to free himself from a habit that can be so consuming to anyone’s life. Instead of constantly smoking cigars and cigarettes all the time in his daily life, he knew that he wanted to live a healthier lifestyle. He read a book called the easy way to stop smoking by Allen Carr and it helped him break free of the addiction cycle.
1 Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston was a smoker?! The truth is that she once was. She revealed in 2012 that she finally was able to stop smoking because she was regularly doing yoga. Yoga helped her get rid of her addictions to cigarettes and caffeine which is very impressive. She is not the only celebrity out there who swears by yoga. A lot of celebrities consider yoga to be an amazing method that helps improve many things in life.
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