Barack Obama President quits ... smoking

Michelle Obama says her husband was not a cigarette within 12 months, although the U.S. president has not yet confirm the claim



Jokes: Obama often jokes about the inability to quit smoking.
President Barack Obama has finally started smoking habit, Michelle Obama revealed.
"Yes, he says," the first lady told reporters at the White House, when asked whether her husband finally did what millions of Americans can not do it and quit. "It's been almost a year."
She said she did not know exactly when he left "because he never smoked a lot, and she never saw him light up.
Question about Obama's smoking last appeared in December, when the spokesman, Robert Gibbs was asked about this, and said that he did not see Obama smoking in nine months. This would put Obama's final clubs somewhere in March.
At that time, Gibbs stopped to say that the president had left immediately. But the president's wife was a bit more direct.
"He always wanted me to stop," the first lady said, explaining that his daughter Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, prepared at an age where he wants to be able to look them in the face and deny it if they decided to ask want if he smokes.
Michelle Obama said that the process of quitting was a "personal challenge" for a president who, when asked about it in June 2009, acknowledged that he often secretly occasional puff.
"I constantly struggle with it," Obama said. "Did I fall wagon sometimes Yes. I'm daily smoker, regular smoker?" No "
Obama said that he does not smoke in front of his children or his family, and declared himself "95% of cure." But he acknowledged that there was still time, "where I messed up."
"Once you go down this path, then this is something that you constantly fight with," he said.
Michelle Obama said she is very proud of her husband, but that it is not pressed him more.
"I do not really poked and prodded him on this," she said. "When someone does the right thing" do not mess with them. "