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Popular singer, Yemi Alade has opened up about beating a short-term cigarette addiction, revealing that she got addicted to smoking as a teenager but quit because “it didn’t work out.”
The Johnny hitmaker explained that she struggled with the addiction in private but hid it in public, which made her gave up the addiction because she wasn’t proud of it.
Speaking in a candid interview with Chude, Alade shared that smoking harmed her, adding that it affected 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.
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.