Katherine Heigl's Electronic Cigarette Solution

Katherine Heigl has kicked her addiction to nicotine thanks to a little plastic electronic cigarette.

The Life As We Know It star admitted to Parade.com that she struggled to quit smoking until she found this high tech solution. "Now I use an electronic cigarette. I know it's ridiculous, but it's helping me not to actually smoke real cigarettes.

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"You feel like you are smoking, and you get to exhale but it's just water vapor and not nicotine. I've been doing it for six months. Smoking sucks!

"The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'"

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Meanwhile, Katherine has shared on the difficulties of reconciling her husband Josh Kelley to the fact that her job involves her kissing other men.

"Actually, he and Josh Duhamel are good friends, but he would never come to the set when Josh and I had to like kiss or make out. It does make him uncomfortable because he's not an actor, he's a musician.

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"He always says to me, 'How would you feel if I had to make out with some girl in a video?' And I'm like, 'If you have to do it, you have to do it. But I wouldn't want you to come home and tell me what a great kisser she is and I should try her technique.' "