Adele '25' Album Release Date: New Music Delayed Due To Health Issues — Singer's Cigarette Smoking To Blame?

It looks like Adele has one pesky habit that is keeping her highly anticipated follow-up album to 21 from being released. According to new reports, the singer's smoking habit is one of the factors that is in play when it comes to why her album, tentatively titled 25, has been taking so long.

Should the British vocalist wait any longer to release the LP, she's going to have to change the name from 25 to 26, since she names them after the ages she was when recording them.

According to reports from the Daily Mail, the singer has finally realized what a burden smoking has become and how much it's affecting her career. The site's reporting that following the release of her second studio album in 2011 that doctors had pressured the starlet to give up cigarettes or she might not be able to sing again.

Since then the star has had to undergo surgery, cancel shows and even put a hold on her studio recording sessions. But the singer has tried to give up smoking in the past without much luck.

"Adele has tried to quit, but the cravings kept getting the better of her," the source explained. "She wants to get back in the studio."

She knows how much the habit is now affecting her career as she explained had she not chosen her current path that she would be smoking all day, every day.

"If I wasn't a singer I would still be smoking 25 a day. It's my favorite thing to do, in the world, I am gutted, I have had to give up," Adele told The Sun.

But it seems that the singer is finally ready to quit the nasty habit once and for all, as the source is revealing that she has gone to a hypnotherapist to curve her cravings.

Just putting this out there because this song has been stuck in our head for days: