How your favorite stars quit smoking By Stars Insider of StarsInsider | How your favorite stars quit smoking Everyone has a vice. For millions of people, that vice is cigarettes, those sinister sticks of tobacco that give you a buzz at a deadly cost. On January 11, 1964, the US Surgeon General Luther Terry released the bombshell report that definitively linked smoking with cancer, kicking off the eventual decline of the wildly popular bad habit. Still though, decades later, smoking has people in its grips, even celebrities with all the best access to health resources. Many stars have kicked the habit, however, thanks to everything from family persuasion to hypnotherapy. Click on to find out exactly how your favorite stars quit the vice.