{"id":13549,"date":"2024-07-18T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/simon-cowell-credits-vaping-with-helping-him-quit-smoking\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:09:43","slug":"simon-cowell-credits-vaping-with-helping-him-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/simon-cowell-credits-vaping-with-helping-him-quit-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell credits vaping with helping him quit smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simon Cowell has credited vaping with helping him to quit his 80-a-day smoking habit. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The music mogul, 63, said he switched to vapes after suffering from a bout of laryngitis last year that caused him to lose his voice. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt was really, really tough because I lost my voice.. and when that happened obviously I couldn\u2019t smoke, so that helped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018If I have done four days without a cigarette, I can do a week,\u2019 and then I thought, \u2018This is the moment, touch wood.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A flavoured vape was the key<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cowell, who would get through 80 cigarettes a day while often working through the night, said he had tried vaping in the past but not been successful. He said it took finding a flavour he likes to help him finally give up smoking. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe vape has been successful. It\u2019s a good one, it tastes nice and sweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have smoked for a long, long time and sometimes it is just habit,\u201d he added. \u201cBut these things do help.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The X Factor and Britain\u2019s Got Talent creator also revealed his driver used to smoke 40 a day and managed to quit thanks to vaping. \u201cMy driver was on 40-a-day and he has cut out smoking completely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cowell could be seen leaving the Britain\u2019s Got Talent studios earlier this year carrying his refillable vape. \u201cIt is quite sexy, it is big and chunky,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A lifestyle overhaul<\/strong><\/p>\n

The X Factor creator, who has son Eric, nine, with his 45-year-old fianc\u00e9 Lauren Silverman, admitted he used to stay up all night working, smoking and drinking lager. <\/p>\n

But a fall from an electric bike in August 2020 that broke his back and left him wheelchair-bound after six hours of surgery led him to change his ways. <\/p>\n

He said that, like his laryngitis that led him to swap deadly cigarettes for vapes, the accident turned out to be \u201cone of the best things\u201d that ever happened to him.<\/p>\n

Since overhauling his lifestyle, diet and fitness routine, he said he has managed to lose three stone in weight. \u201cIt had to happen sooner or later,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Cowell, due to turn 64 in October, said as well as focusing on his fitness, he now refuses to live his life around work.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cYears ago I would literally work through the night. That was just normal for me. Now there has to be a cut-off.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s kind of like 5.30pm or 6pm, and that\u2019s it. I don\u2019t break that rule, and weekends are weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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