Accompanying the recent price hike in cigarettes is a proposed amendment to the Control of Tobaccos Products Regulations - another step the government is taking to try and reduce smoking and related non-communicable diseases. While these steps are necessary in helping curb smoking, quitting this addictive practice is easier said than done.

Here in the studio with us today we have Julian Leicester, quit smoking success guru who is also named as the cigarette slayer and Dr Tan Chong Chong, a clinical quit smoking consultant to talk to us about quitting smoking.

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