"To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down"
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The husband detail does most of the cultural work. By naming his asthma, she shifts the story from individual self-improvement to relational responsibility. It's not just "I wanted to be healthier"; it's "my habit existed in someone else's air". His inability to "imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth" reads as both affectionate exasperation and an outsider's moral clarity. He becomes a mirror that makes the behavior look strange again, stripping away the normalization smokers build around the ritual.
As an actress and public figure, Combs also avoids the preachy PSA tone. She doesn't position herself as a cautionary tale or a wellness convert; she offers a lived workaround: tapering plus accountability. The context feels early-2000s-to-2010s celebrity candor, when lifestyle confessionals were currency and smoking was sliding from glamorous prop to socially inconvenient habit. The line lands because it turns quitting into something less like punishment and more like alignment with the life you already share with someone else.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Combs, Holly Marie. (2026, January 17). To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-stop-smoking-was-actually-really-easy-because-67224/
Chicago Style
Combs, Holly Marie. "To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-stop-smoking-was-actually-really-easy-because-67224/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-stop-smoking-was-actually-really-easy-because-67224/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.


