View. comments. It seems that serial smoker Simon Cowell will be kicking the habit in time for his new arrival. The music mogul said in an interview that he would be giving up his cigarettes and not be smoking in front of his son, after he was criticised for puffing away near his pregnant girlfriend Lauren Silverman.'I won't do that,' Simon told LBC 97.3.e's changed his tune: Simon Cowell says he will give up smoking when his baby son arrives.