Famous singer Yemi Alade has talked candidly about overcoming a brief cigarette addiction, disclosing that she had a smoking addiction as a teenager but gave it up because “it didn’t work out.”
The Johnny hitmaker revealed that she battled the addiction in secret but concealed it from the world, which prompted her to give it up as she didn’t feel proud of it.
In an open interview with Chude, Yemi Alade said that smoking harmed her voice.
“Some people say I don’t smoke, I don’t this, I don’t that. When I was in the university I tried smoking. I did not work out. But before it did not work out, it worked out a bit too much. I started needing to smoke before I go to bed. I was getting addicted to that lifestyle. But also, in public, I would hide the cigarette.
“So, I was like, ‘What’s this life; the discomfort that I can’t go to bed without smoking and then when I go out, I am going to hide the cigarette?
As a teenager in the university trying to figure out life, I also made certain decisions for myself that if I’m going to hide to do something, I will not do it. Because I like to be aware of my environment and my decisions. And I just said I don’t think cigarettes are for me.
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“They are not for me. And they harmed me, they affected my voice anyways. So I stopped. Smoking for me did not last up to a year,” she expressed.
Nigerian rapper Temidayo Omoniyi, popularly known as Zlatan Ibile, has revealed that he quit smoking and hasn’t smoked in four years.
The ‘Zanku’ crooner made this known during an interactive session with fans on Snapchat recently.
Responding to a fan who asked if he still smokes, Zlatan revealed that he quit smoking four years ago.
He wrote,:
“A day can’t pass without someone asking me this question. Yes, I quit smoking 4 years ago. And I have no issues with smokers.”
