Bipasha Basu influences director to give up smoking

Aatma directorSuparnVerma has quit smoking, while Nawazuddin’s intake has reduced significantly.
Bipasha Basu’s tweet said it all. “Best piece of news!My director @Suparn stopped smoking from yesterday! Yayyy!”
When we contacted Aatma director Suparn Verma said, “Yes. I have quit smoking. I was not much of a smoker and had quit it during the shoot of Aatma itself, but then since I had smokers around, I would take a drag here and there and end up smoking close to 4-5 cigarettes a day.It acted as a stress buster, but I realized somewhere that there are better ways to release stress. I have resumed gymming again, so I have more than one reason to stop smoking.” The director added, “Yesterday, we went to Ajmer Sharif at 5 am and came back at 9 pm and I didn’t smoke the whole day. Today is the second day running.”
Ask him if Bips influenced his decision and he said, “Everybody knows she is a fitness freak, so nobody smokes around her. I am health conscious too and we exchanged fitness tips. So Bips was curious when she saw me smoking. She was like ‘You don’t even need a nicotine fix, so why do you smoke just like that?’”
What about Nawazuddin Siddique, who is known to be a habitual smoker? “Before he met me, he would smoke 15 ciggys a day. Now it’s reduced to just two. Maybe that is because people around him do not smoke.”