Smoker Whoopi GoldbergWhoopi Goldberg is on course to get her Christmas wish to quit smoking. The View co-host is down to two cigarettes a day with 9 days to go before Christmas Day. She admits she knew it was time to dump her bad habit after seeing a hard-hitting TV commercial, in which kids appeared to be breathing second-hand smoke. She says, "I saw this commercial where these little kids who were laying in the bed… and one of the kids breathes and the smoke comes out. "Something about seeing those little kids exhale that smoke made me think, `OK, Whoop, maybe it’s time to stop.’" Now, Goldberg only has to control her book-buying obsession. She adds, "I was addicted to books. I would go in and I would buy 20 books every time I passed the bookstore and then I realized I wasn’t reading any of them… I just wanted to buy them."
