Chain Smoker Kid’s Amazing Transformation 

Indonesia: Ardi Rizal, once a chain-smoking toddler, who became an overnight sensation for puffing 40 cigarettes had successfully kicked his habit and now excels at school. The nine-year-old kid now was discovered in a poor village in Sumatra, Indonesia, and grabbed the headlines in 2010 for his chain smoking at the age of two.

"At first when we were weaning Ardi off the cigarettes he would have terrible tantrums. But now he doesn't want them," says Diane Rizal, Ardi's mother.

The pictures of his smoking grabbed the eyeballs of Indonesian government who acted as succor for the child. The government put him in a rehabilitation center and was successful in discarding his habit.

However, his smoking got replaced with food and weighed 24 kg at the age of five. To make Ardi move away from his binge eating habit, the family consulted a nutritionist. And in four years Ardi shedded his excess weight. The boy’s amazing transformation truly inspires many.