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Doctor-Led Quit Coaching

Quit smoking, vape, shisha or midwakh — with a doctor in your corner.

Read the full Doctor-Led Quit Smoking Guide →

Evidence-based, behaviourally structured quit support for cigarettes, vape, shisha, midwakh and dokha. Designed for the long tail of months 2 and 3 — where most quit attempts quietly fail.

Doctor-authored Evidence-based Multi-substance Online · worldwide
Free · Sent personally by email

Get the doctor-written 7-Day Quit Plan

The same first-week structure I give my patients — day-by-day, what to expect, the 4Ds craving toolkit, and how to stack the layers that actually work.

Dr Kirath will personally email you the PDF within 24 hours. No spam, ever. Unsubscribe any time.

The case for behavioural support

Most quit attempts don't fail in week one. They fail in month three.

Pharmacotherapy gets you through the chemistry. What's missing for most people — and what doubles long-term success rates in the evidence — is the behavioural layer.

3–5%
Long-term success rate of unaided quit attempts (no NRT, no support).
~2×
The increase in success rates when combination NRT is used correctly.
~2×
A further doubling on top of NRT when structured behavioural support is added.
Who this is for

Built for every form of nicotine — not just cigarettes.

The pharmacology of nicotine is the same regardless of how it's delivered. The behavioural environment around each is different, and the coaching adapts to that.

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Cigarettes
Daily smokers, social smokers, and "I only smoke when I drink" patterns
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Vape
Pod systems, disposables, refillables — including dual-use with cigarettes
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Shisha
Waterpipe, hookah, narghile — including the social/cafe pattern
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Midwakh
Small-bowl pipes; dokha tobacco. Common across the Gulf and diaspora
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Multi-source
For the most common pattern: shisha + vape, or cigarettes + occasional shisha
The method

A six-session programme designed around the long tail.

Not a single consultation. Not a course. A structured programme over eight weeks — calibrated to the real curve of relapse risk.

Read the full framework: The Quit Stack →

01

Intake — your full nicotine picture

A 60-minute deep dive into every nicotine source, every previous quit attempt, every trigger, every concern. The plan is built around your actual pattern — not a generic protocol.

02

Quit-day preparation

NRT and pharmacology guidance (scoped as education — the actual prescription comes from your local doctor or pharmacist). Trigger map. Environmental setup. The week-one schedule is built before quit day arrives.

03

Quit day + 72-hour support

A live session on the day, then check-in messaging through the peak withdrawal window. The hardest 72 hours are not done alone.

04 – 06

Three follow-ups across weeks 2, 4 and 8

The phase where most quit attempts quietly relapse. We work on habit replacement, identify your highest-risk events in the 30 days ahead, and build the plan for each one. By week 8, the pattern is consolidating.

Programme details and pricing are shared with the founding cohort. Join the waitlist below.

About the coach

Dr Kirath Sidhu — Occupational Health Doctor

I'm a medical doctor based in Penang, Malaysia, specialising in occupational health. For years I've worked with multinational manufacturers and individual patients across South-East Asia and the Middle East on workplace health, medical surveillance, and lifestyle medicine — including smoking cessation.

This coaching practice is the natural extension of that work. It is scoped as education and behaviour-change coaching, not telemedicine or prescription. The medical training shapes how I assess, what I recommend, and what I refer back to your treating doctor — but the deliverable is structured support, not clinical care.

If you have tried to quit before and it didn't work, the most useful thing I can probably offer you is a clearer picture of why, and a method that addresses the actual gap.

MD · Occupational Health ASP Medical Group ISO 45003 Certified Practitioner NCSCT Practitioner Training
Founding Cohort

Cohorts open by invitation, in small batches.

Founding clients work with me at a reserved rate, in exchange for case-study permission and feedback that shapes the programme. The cohort is intentionally small. The waitlist runs through the same form below — request the 7-Day Plan and reply to the email to register.

Get the Plan + Join the Waitlist
Recommended reading

The long version of what we cover in the first sessions.

Quit Smoking · 10 min
Quitting Cigarettes: What Actually Works
The honest version of what the first month of quitting actually looks like, and why willpower is the wrong frame.
Quit Smoking · 8 min
Why Most Quit Attempts Fail at the Same Moment
The Day 3 wall, the chemistry behind it, and what the people who get past it actually do differently.