Lady Gaga Stopped Smoking '40 Cigarettes All Day Long' After Quitting 'Cold Turkey'

Jul 18, 2022 by apost team

Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an American pop star, songwriter, and actress. The award-winning artist rose to fame in 2007 when she released her debut single, "Just Dance." The singer quickly garnered international fame due to her elaborate costumes, catchy lyrics, impressive dance movements, and powerful vocal talents. Her debut album, "Fame," was released in 2009. The album included several successful hits such as "Just Dance," "Bad Romance," and "Born This Way." The pop icon still holds the Guinness World Record for "Most weeks on the US Hot Digital Songs chart." In 2008, the international sensation released her chart-topping hit "Poker Face," which stayed on the US Hot Digital Songs for 83 weeks. 

While maintaining her highly successful music career, the singer ventured into acting. Gaga appeared in "Machete Kills" and "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For." In 2015, the Grammy-winning artist joined the anthology series "American Horror Story." Lady Gaga received a Golden Globe Award for her dazzling performance in the series. In 2019, Lady Gaga wowed the critics with her remarkable performance in her first lead role as "Ally Maine" in "A Star Is Born."

Along with starring in the film, the singer-songwriter co-wrote the majority of the songs within the film. The film's lead single, "Shallow," won two Grammy Awards and an Oscar. At the 2019 Grammy, during her acceptance speech for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, the international pop star took a moment to highlight mental health issues. Lady Gaga has always been transparent about her own battles with mental health and even launched a non-profit called Born This Way to improve mental health and support the youth. Activism has always been at the root of many of Lady Gaga's business ventures. From her music to acting, the fashion icon leads by example. 

Lady Gaga has always been transparent about her personal battles with mental illness. However, in an interview with People, the Grammy winner expressed how her sixth studio album, "Chromatica," was influenced by her depression.

"I spent a lot of time in a sort of catatonic state of just not wanting to do anything," the singer told People. "And then I finally, slowly started to make music and tell my story through my record."

At times, Lady Gaga felt threatened by her own success. Her international fame placed an overwhelming weight on the pop icon. The 11-time Grammy winner told Oprah Winfrey, during her 2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus Tour, how this pressure contributed to her "psychotic breakdown." In the end, she was forced to face the past traumas that she previously suppressed.

"I used to wake up in the morning, and I would realize I was 'Lady Gaga.' And then I became very depressed and sad, and I didn't want to be myself," she said. "I felt threatened by the things my career brought into my life and the pace of my life."

In an interview with Instyle, the "Bad Romance" singer retold how seeing herself in the public eye contrasted how she felt about herself.

"I think it took me some time to grieve about the things that have happened to me, and I couldn't be angry with myself for how long it took," she says, admitting that her glittery façade was often just that. "I've been depressed and been at the grocery store and seen photos of myself and gone, 'Well, I look like everything is good.' But I was secretly freaking out, and the world had no idea. 

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For Lady Gaga, music became her light in the darkness. In a "New Music Daily with Zane Lowe" interview on Apple Music, the "Always Remember Us This Way" singer explained how working on her sixth studio album helped transform the hurt they were feeling into happiness. 

"I put all my heart, all my pain, all my messages from the other realm that I hear of what they tell me to tell the world and I put it into music that I believe to be so fun and you know, energetically really pure, and I want people to dance and feel happy," Gaga said.

 "Someone asked me the other day what my goal was with this album and it actually sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud," the singer added. "But I go, I said, 'I would like to put out music. That a big chunk of the world will hear, and it will become a part of their daily lives and make them happy every single day."

Along with finding the light in the darkest moments of her life, the Oscar-winning actress also kicked her bad smoking habit.

In the interview "New Music Daily with Zane Lowe," the "Shallow" singer revealed that after multiple attempts, she finally quit smoking.

"I'm not smoking anymore, but I'd smoke 40 cigarettes all day long," she told the outlet.

"I swear on my life I'm not smoking cigarettes," she confirmed. "I completely quit — I quit cold turkey. But it was so hard. If you don't smoke, don't smoke! Because quitting is worse. It is so brutal. And I will never smoke again because I think I saw Jesus for an entire week. It was so awful."

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