| • | "A recent study reveals that 57 percent of the lead characters in films are portrayed as smokers. Off-screen, however, stars have been turning to two new specialists in an effort to kick unhealthy habits. Here's a look at how they both stack up. YEFIM SHUBENTSOV. The guru Dubbed the Mad Russian, this Massachusetts-based healer employs 'bio-energy,' not medicine. The groupies Drew Barrymore, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, Billy Joel, author Amy Tan", InStyle Magazine | |
| • | "Courteney Cox and her hubby David Arquette mingled in the smoking area, with Cox hanging with her sisters-in-law Patricia and Rosanna Arquette", USA Today, Jan. 16, '07 | |
| • | video, youtube, when? |
| • | Rolling Stone, c. Summer '95 | |
| • | "It's Tuesday - show day - and the extremely Chandler-esque Matthew Perry is taking a break on Second Street, a tiny strip of cement outside Stage 5 that serves as a sort of outdoor smoking bathroom for the Friends cast members, who, with the exception of nonsmoker Schwimmer, come out here often to light up and schmooze ... a few of the Friends sneak out to Oprah's garage for a quick pre-show smoke", Rolling Stone, Jul. '95 | |
| • | pictured holding, Hard Copy, Sep. 20, '95 | |
| • | US Weekly, Feb. '96 | |
| • | "'Oh, no,' Aniston reassures her, lifting a half-empty glass of chardonnay, 'we're drinking.' 'I'll have a glass of that,' Kudrow says. 'But right now I need to go have cigarette.' 'Great,' Cox says, jumping up from the table almost before she sits down. 'Can I come with you?' And they're gone -- *bam!* -- out to the bathroom, like junior-high bad girls sneaking out of study hall to talk dirty and grab a smoke. 'What did that take, like, three minutes?' Kudrow says upon her return. 'And we already went through, like, our first boyfriends, different outfits and sexual things that are really annoying -- things we could never discuss out here'", US Weekly, Feb. '96 | |
| • | "delicately exhaling a puff of legal weed to the side of the table", "fumbling for a Marlboro Light", Sky Magazine (UK), Mar. '97 | |
| • | "She also respected our 'no smoking' policy and went outside", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jun. 19, '97 | |
| • | "smokes in real life", Bizarre, Mar./Apr. '98 | |
| • | "She smokes, paints, drives her silver Porsche at 120mph", Sky, May '98 | |
| • | started at 15, Howie Mandel show, c. Oct. '98 | |
| • | quit - one week into quitting, Howie Mandel show, c. Oct. '98 | |
| • | quit - said she had "Really quit, for six weeks now. But I want a cigarette every minute of everyday - except today", Tonight Show, Nov. 4, '98 | |
| • | "Friends actress Courteney Cox has turned to a therapist to help her quit smoking. She flew to Boston with fiance David Arquette for a two-hour seminar and hasn't had a cigarette since. 'I only wanted to quit if it was easy,' she says. 'I did feel different inside afterwards and I'm not smoking, so it must have worked'", TV Quick, Oct. 31-Nov. 6, '98 | |
| • | quit - "Courteney Cox credits a therapist, whose nickname is the Mad Russian, for curing her addiction to cigarettes", Sunday Mail (UK), Jan. 24, '99 | |
| • | "I promised my daughter I'd quit smoking", Houston Chronicle, May 11, '99 | |
| • | quit - Movieline Magazine, Dec./Jan. '00, p. 58 | |
| • | "David dropped to his knees in front of his parents and begged Courteney to be his wife. She says: 'I just broke down and sobbed. I was in such a state I couldn't even smoke - though I was desperate for a puff - because we had this no smoking pact. David had made me give up the 30-cigarettes-a-day habit I'd had since my teens'.", The People (UK), Jan. 9, '00 | |
| • | quit - Sep. 23, '98, along with her boyfriend using hypnosis, the next day he proposed, Rosie O'Donnell show, Jan. 27, '00 | |
| • | quit - "Courteney Cox Arquette and husband David both kicked their smoking habit together - thanks to a hypnotist. The 'Friends' stunner and her then-boyfriend wanted to quit their 20 a day habit but suffered with other methods like the nicotine patches. The couple sought help from a hypnotist who put them under such a strong spell that they have never smoked again. Cox explains, 'We decided to quit a year and a half ago and we went to this hypnotist'", World Entertainment News Network, Jan. 31, '00 | |
| • | "Did you cry? [when David Arquette proposed to her] 'Yeah, I cried. I was in shock. Then I said, 'David, you mean I can't smoke?' You see, we had just gone to a hypnotist together to stop smoking and I was so nervous when he proposed that I wanted a cigarette.' Had you been smoking long? 'I'd been smoking since I was 13.' Ever get the urge to fire up again? 'I want to smoke right now. It hurts.'", Heat, Apr. 27-May 3, '00 | |
| • | "Courteney didn't want to be tempted by tasty but fattening Italian delicacies. So, after she finished her green salad with lemon wedge and no dressing, she went outside with her cell phone, chatting away and smoking cigarettes for 20 minutes", Star Magazine, late Jun. '00 | |
| • | "When i was little I stole a handful of candy and some lighters, this was before i smoked.", Tonight Show, Feb. 20, '01 | |
| • | quit - "David and Courteney Cox Arquette kicked their 20-a-day cigarette habit via hypnosis", New York Post, Mar. 8, '01 | |
| • | quit - "Shubentsov has already helped Billy Joel and Courteney Cox Arquette quit smoking... Shubentsov has no formal medical training, but employs 'bio-energetics' which involves waving his hands over a client while exhaling loudly", World Entertainment News Network, May 11, '01 | |
| • | quit - "[Drew Barrymore] gave up cigarettes three months ago, she tells us, with the help of Yefim Shubentsov of Brookline, Mass., who helps people break bad habits and has also worked with Billy Joel and Courteney Cox", People Magazine | |
| • | quit - "Friends star Courtney Cox-Arquette and husband David Arquette also made the pilgrimage to Boston. 'They never tried to quit before, because Courtney really liked to smoke, but knew it was bad for her,' says Whitney Smith, Arquette's assistant. 'They knew they'd both have to do it together because it is hard for one person in a relationship to quit. So whatever it is this guy did it worked, because to date they are two years smoke-free.'", USA Today, Jul. 11, '01 | |
| • | quit - "When Courteney and David decided to quit smoking once and for all, they decided to do it cold turkey and used a hypnotist and have been smoke-free ever since.", Redbook Magazine, Jun. '02, p. 112 | |
| • | quit - "Friends star Courtney Cox has revealed that she and David Arquette had to have therapy for six months before their marriage because they couldn't stop rowing after she stopped smoking. The slender 38-year-old's decision to give up the weed - the day before David proposed - apparently caused such stormy arguments that the pair sought professional help before they decided to tie the knot. 'We were fighting a lot. I think we replaced cigarettes with fighting,' says Courteney. 'Not that cigarettes themselves are good, but, when you smoke, you go into another room, sit down, breathe in and take time out. It can stifle your feelings. I was just so used to stifling my feelings by smoking. But when I gave up, I couldn't hold it any more' ", Daily Express (UK), Oct. 7, '02 | |
| • | quit - "When I smoked, I used to relax because I'd actually sit down to have the cigarette. But I haven't smoked in four years", US Weekly | |
| • | quit - "When I smoked, I used to relax because I'd actually sit down to have the cigarette. But I haven't smoked in four years, and I haven't sat down in four years either ... hardly hold anything in. If I think it, I say it. It's not always my best attribute. I used to be able to suppress it by having a cigarette, but I quit smoking", InStyle Magazine | |
| • | quit - "We got engaged and we both had just quit smoking and we were fighting a lot. So we went to the therapist, and he said you guys are not ready to get married...When you quit smoking (it's been five years now), you can't hold things in anymore. You get frustrated, you smoke a cigarette, you swallow something. But when you're not smoking, there's no outlet, there's no escape", USA Today, Oct. 9, '03 | |
| • | "Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn told pals Courteney Cox Arquette and Chris McMillan a happy secret in the back alley of Mastro's Steakhouse in L.A. during a recent smoking break", Philadelphia Daily News, Nov. 17, '05 | |
| • | "Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston were snapped outside Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills by photographers taking a cigarette break ... Joining them on the smoke break were two of Jen's best pals and trusted confidants, Courteney Cox and Jen's friend and hair dresser Chris McMillan", National Ledger, Nov. 22, '05 |
| • | cigar - in hand, Star Magazine, Oct. 17, '95, p. 8 | |
| • | many, The Globe, c. Nov. '95 | |
| • | full page, posed, holding, Loaded, Jan. '97 | |
| • | same, posed, from 1997, holding, Loaded (Classic portfolio supplement), Jul. '01 | |
| • | posed, from "Scream 2", holding, Neon, Apr. '98 | |
| • | candid, holding, The Sun (UK), May 8, '98 | |
| • | same, Film Review, May '98 | |
| • | posed, holding, Loaded, Jun. '98 | |
| • | same?, Loaded, Jan. '97 | |
| • | TV Guide online, Feb. 15, '00 | |
| • | dragging, from 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), News of the World Magazine, (UK), Apr. 29, '00, p. 9 |
| • | Cigar Glamour | |
| • | Celebs Smokers |
| • | smokes, website, when? |
| • | Celebs Smokers |
| • | Marlboro Light |
| • | "So what does this intriguing couple do for fun? 'If I gave you a list you'd think we're mental,' says Cox. 'We travel, we smoke, we watch movies.'", TV Guide | |
| • | "Right now it's Nikki's lunch break, but she doesn't feel like eating. In her dressing room, she perches on a couch, lights a cigarette...Her lunch break over, Nikki takes a last swig of water and grinds her Marlboro Light into an ashtray.", Gear Magazine, Mar. '01 | |
| • | "I did a TV movie once in a gym. I lit up a cigarette and got in really big trouble", FHM, Oct. '01, p. 152 |
| • | Celebs Smokers |
| • | "Sara Cox exhales some cigarette smoke", "She smokes more than a docker", "'Nah', she says, taking a lengthy puff", Sky Magazine (UK), Mar. '97 | |
| • | "The 5ft 9in beauty slimmed to 7 1/2 st on a diet of cigarettes, black coffee and low-calorie soups", The Sun, Jun. 18, '97 | |
| • | "a chain smoker", Daily Mail (Weekend Magazine) (UK), Dec. 5, '98 | |
| • | "Sara Cox is just pages away from finishing one of the most important books of her life - on giving up smoking. 'I really want to give up,' says the 24-year-old presenter of the entertainment news show Exclusive. 'But you can't stop until you've finished the book and I've got about eight pages left. I think it's going to take me about two months to read them! I began smoking seriously when I was about 19 but it was modelling which messed me up. I lived on cigarettes, coffee and low-calorie soups for two years'", The Sun (The TV Mag supplement), Apr. 10, '99 | |
| • | quit - "She has also given up smoking, in an effort to prepare her body for motherhood. 'It's been six weeks now, and I feel great. I'm that self satisfied,' she boasts. 'It was actually dead easy. I just got sick of it. I want babies in a couple of years as well, and getting pregnant and then giving up such a crutch as smoking must be really difficult. You can't do both'", Daily Record (UK), Jul. 10, '99 | |
| • | quit - "I gave up smoking four months ago. I used to do about 20 a day", The Mirror (UK), Oct. 1, '99 | |
| • | quit - "she gave up smoking four months ago", The Mirror (UK), Oct. 18, '99 | |
| • | "she summons up the energy to reach into her bag for a packet of cigarettes only to find she hasn't got a light. And neither has Minx. 'Sod it,' she philosophises. 'I was trying to give up anyway.'", Minx Magazine, '99 | |
| • | quit - "The one thing I have done is give up smoking. I'm so pleased. Starting smoking was the worst thing I ever did and I'd been smoking about 20 a day since I was 17. I read Alan Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking. You've got to keep smoking throughout the book and, as you read the last page, it says that you will never smoke again.", "When I was modelling, from the age of 19 to 21...I had a lot of coffee and cigarettes to keep my weight down." The Express, Jan. 11, '00 | |
| • | quit - " Television presenter Sara Cox, 25, has recently managed to stub out her last cigarette after being a 20-a-day girl from the age of 17. Sara readily admits that starting smoking was the worst thing she ever did. But she had a secret weapon that helped her win the battle to give up - Alan Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking. Sara explained: 'You've got to keep smoking throughout the book and, as you read the last page, it says you will never smoke again'", Scottish Daily Record, Feb. 23, '00 | |
| • | quit - "we do want babies, that was a little bit of the giving up smoking thing", BBC, May '00 | |
| • | "I lived on a diet of Slim-a-Soup, apples, endless cups of coffee, plus loads of cigarettes. I don't do that so much now. I still smoke and drink loads of coffee but I have learnt to enjoy food", Sunday People (UK), Apr. 22, '01 | |
| • | "she has fag burns on her coffee table ... Sara hung out the window for a crafty fag", Observer (UK), Jun. 24, '01 | |
| • | "'This has got to be the worst interview I have ever given,' she says apologetically as she lights up a cigarette", Birmingham Post (UK), Jul. 18, '01 | |
| • | "The pool clearly gets a girl in a whirl as Sara smokes a cigarette with Jon", The People (UK), Oct. 14, '01 | |
| • | "Newly-wed Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox tried a bit of bare-faced cheek at the Q Awards - only to be put in her place. In pursuit of a little superstar chit-chat the Breakfast Show host leaned over to Cher on the next table and, cigarette in mouth, inquired: 'All right! Have you got a light for my fag?' But good old Cher swatted her down to size in classic style. 'Sorry I haven't', she purred. 'Use one of the candles on your table. Just try not to set your hair on fire'", Mirror (UK), Oct. 31, '01 | |
| • | "she relaxed with a few drinks and cigarettes", The Sun (UK), Mar. 19, '02 | |
| • | "Half an hour earlier, Sara Cox had finished her Breakfast Show on Radio 1. Now, feeling as drained as she always does after getting up at 4.30am and being noisy, chaotic and full of banter for three hours every weekday morning, she wants coffee. And cigarettes. And a drink ... 'Yeah, I do drink a lot,' she reflects, rummaging for a cigarette", The Times (UK), Jun. 15, '02 | |
| • | "the sexy ex-model is happy to admit she's still often snapped looking slightly the worse for wear - with a fag in one hand and a drink in the other", Daily Star (UK), Sep. 2, '02 | |
| • | "lighting a cigarette", Heat (UK), Sep. 7-13, '02 | |
| • | "she was downing lager and chain-smoking at the Supergrass gig in London's CC club before going to a private bash", The Sun (UK), Sep. 28, '02 | |
| • | "With 200,000 listeners gone up in smoke, Sara Cox sure is puffing. We caught the gobby Radio 1 DJ enjoying a hit of nicotine after presenting her breakfast show from Nottingham as part of the station's OneLive roadshows", Daily Star (UK), Oct. 26, '02 | |
| • | "she lights a cigarette", Heat (UK), Dec. 7-13, '02 | |
| • | "If you had to go to a desert island what three things would you take? 'Am I allowed to take Eminem? I'd give up cigarettes before I go so I'd leave them behind'", UK NewsQuest, Mar. 29, '03 | |
| • | "[Zoe Ball and Sara Cox] became notorious for their beer-swilling, cigarette-smoking and party-loving antics", Daily Express (UK), Dec. 17, '03 | |
| • | quit - "Sara Cox, 29, Why she quit smoking: She's pregnant. How she did it: With the book Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking, which focuses on the reasons why you smoke. 'You smoke while reading it and as you read the last page, it says you'll never smoke again,' Sara says. 'I've given up now and I'm so pleased'", The People (UK), Mar. 7, '04 | |
| • | "I was stunned when I found out I was pregnant. I'd been smoking and drinking all weekend. Let's just say it cured my hangover instantly. Now I don't even feel like drinking", Daily Star (UK), Mar. 11, '04 | |
| • | "she wants a fag", The Guardian (UK), Feb. 5, '05 | |
| • | quit - "The moment she discovered she was going to be a mum, DJ Sara Cox vowed to put her foul-mouthed, beer-swigging, fag-smoking days behind her. The original ladette chucked her ciggies in the bin, hid the corkscrew, and began a nine-month regime of exercise and healthy eating. 'My life changed from the moment I saw that blue stripe on the pregnancy test,' says Sara, 30. 'I knew I couldn't have a fag or a drink.' But old habits die hard. On the day she stopped breast-feeding her baby daughter Lola, Coxy lapsed into a two-week bender of booze and ciggies. She fell monumentally off the wagon at the 41st birthday party of DJ Norman Cook, the husband of her best friend, TV presenter Zoe Ball. 'I went bananas,' confesses Sara. 'I went off the rails on beer and fags....I did my last breast-feed on the morning of Norman's party. Then I went to their house and Zoe put a glass in one hand and a fag in the other. That first drink and cigarette tasted great...I can't diet like I did when I was modelling - coffee and fags all day, with the odd apple...Since I've had Lola I've had a lot more respect for my body. I've given up smoking and I'm trying not to drink every night' ", Daily Mirror (UK), Jul. 30, '05 | |
| • | "as she lights a cigarette", website, when? |
| • | holding at a party, Sunday Express Magazine (UK), Mar. 26, '00 | |
| • | candid, holding, The Sunday Express (Magazine supplement), Mar. 26, '00 | |
| • | same, Daily Telegraph (Magazine supplement), Jun. 3, '00 | |
| • | candid, puffing, Sunday Express (Enjoy supplement) (UK), Mar. 18, '01 | |
| • | with Zoe Ball, News of the World (Sunday Magazine), Apr. 22, '01 | |
| • | candid, holding, Heat (UK), Sep. 7-13, '02 | |
| • | candid, holding, Heat (UK), Dec. 7-13, '02 |
| • | Celebs Smokers |