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Dr. Kirath Sidhu
Doctor-Led Quit Coaching

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

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.

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 Accredited NCSCT Certified (in progress)
Founding Cohort

The first cohort opens later this year.

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
Read more

The thinking behind the method.

Why Most Attempts Fail
Why Most Quit Attempts Fail — And What Actually Works
8 min read · The three real reasons quit attempts collapse
Shisha Cessation
Quitting Shisha: What Actually Works (And Why It's Not the Same as Quitting Cigarettes)
9 min read · The social, cultural and pharmacological picture

Or explore the interactive quit-smoking education page — what cigarettes contain, the damage they cause, and the recovery timeline.

Common questions

What people ask me first.

Is this telemedicine? Will you prescribe NRT or other medications?
No. This is education and behaviour-change coaching, not telemedicine. I do not prescribe, diagnose, or replace your treating doctor. I provide structured guidance on what NRT and prescription options exist, and how to use them well — your local doctor or pharmacist signs off on the actual product.
Do I need to live somewhere specific?
No. The programme runs entirely online over Zoom and is designed for anyone with a private space and a stable internet connection. I currently work with clients across South-East Asia, the Gulf, the UK and Australia.
What if I've already tried to quit and failed several times?
That is the population this programme is built for. Multiple previous attempts are valuable data, not evidence of failure. The successful quit usually isn't the one with more willpower — it's the one with the right method.
I mostly use shisha or midwakh. Will this still apply to me?
Yes — explicitly. The behavioural environment around shisha and midwakh is genuinely different from cigarettes, and the programme accounts for that. Read the shisha-specific piece here.
When does the founding cohort actually open?
Later in 2026. The waitlist is real and small — I'm not running a launch with a thousand seats. Request the 7-Day Plan above and you'll be the first to know when applications open.
What does it cost?
Programme details and pricing are shared with the founding cohort directly. The 7-Day Plan and these blog posts are free, and they are deliberately the same evidence-based material the paid programme is built on — there is no bait and switch.
Start with the 7-Day Plan

Whether you join the cohort or not — the plan is yours.

It is the same first-week structure I use with my own patients. If it works, you'll know within the week. If it doesn't, you'll have a much clearer picture of where the actual gap is.

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