Bollywood actors who successfully quit smoking
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01/10Bollywood actors who successfully quit smoking
Here’s a list of Bollywood actors who after painstaking efforts succeeded in bidding adieu to the unhealthy habit of smoking
02/10Salman Khan
Post undergoing treatment for his nerve ailment, superstar Salman Khan quit smoking. He also admitted that he has become more health conscious now than he was before.
03/10Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik did a lot of research, from reading to talking to people who have actually quit smoking so that he could too someday bid the habit goodbye. However, after five failed attempts, he came across the book ‘Easy Way To Stop Smoking’ by Alan Carr. The day he finished reading the book was the day he smoked his last cigarette.
04/10Ranbir Kapoor
During the filming of ‘Barfi’, Ranbir Kapoor had a friendly bet with filmmaker Anurag Basu about quitting smoking. However, the friendly bet proved to be a life-changing moment for the actor. He jokingly declared that post that day if anyone caught him smoking, they could kill him, burn him and call me fake. Reportedly he also had a bet with mother Neetu Kapoor, that for his love for the sport football, he would quit smoking and he succeeded.
05/10Konkana Sen Sharma
The actress decided to bid goodbye to the habit before embracing motherhood.
06/10Saif Ali Khan
The Nawab almost suffered a heart-attack due to smoking and decided to never touch a cigarette again in his life. He later even quit drinking.
07/10Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan cut down on smoking because it was a habit his kids Junaid and Ira did not approve of. However, he finally quit the habit after the birth of his youngest child Azad in December 2011. Although he had admitted that the stress before the release of his film ‘Dangal’ made him relapse, he made it a point to not touch cigarettes post that phase.
08/10Ajay Devgn
Ajay Devgn quit smoking because his wife Kajol was always against this habit.
09/10Arjun Rampal
Arjun Rampal quit the unhealthy habit out of love for his kids. He had started smoking back in college and took to Twitter to announce that he is bidding goodbye to the habit. His wife Meher too quit smoking.
10/10Vivek Oberoi
Ambassador of World Health Organisation’s anti-smoking movement, Vivek Oberoi quit smoking after he started visiting patients at a cancer hospital in Mumbai. He also doesn’t allow people to smoke on sets when he’s shooting.
