Share Your Quit Smoking Story - Stories to Help You Quit Smoking » famous names http://www.quitsmokinghub.com/blog The Official Quit Smoking Blog - Quit Smoking Support, Advice, Opinions and Stories Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:18:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Mel Gibson Quits Smoking http://www.quitsmokinghub.com/blog/2010/02/mel-gibson-quits-smoking/ http://www.quitsmokinghub.com/blog/2010/02/mel-gibson-quits-smoking/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:31:08 +0000 Quit Smoking Admin http://www.quitsmokinghub.com/blog/?p=5 Mel Gibson, actor and star of Edge of Darkness and upcoming films such as The Beaver and How I Spent My Summer Vacation, quit smoking after 45 yearsDon’t know when Mel Gibson quit smoking cigarettes, or fags as he lovingly refers to them. But, he recalls the quit smoking process. Gibson quit smoking cold turkey it appears and he recalls the first three days without a cigarette as “torture”. He felt like an axe murderer, he says. The implied reason he quit was because of the birth of his eigth child, Lucia, with his partner Oksana Grigorieva. Having kids will do it.

Parents will endure any sacrifice, no matter how painful, for their children. Ironically, Gibson’s mother smoked “when I was in her womb”. Gibson began smoking at age nine.

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