14 DAY TRIAL // If you’re a smoker trying to quit, Gerard Butler can relate. On a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Scottish actor came clean about falling off the wagon after 4 years and offered some helpful tips.
Gerard was once a heavy smoker, something that Leno did not hesitate to tell him when he did another interview with him a while back.
Since then, though, he’s changed: he managed to quit the bad habit for 4 whole years and then, one day, he simply started again, he admits.
As the video below will confirm, Gerard started smoking again because of one night he hung out with good friend Russell Crowe, who is a heavy smoker himself.
“I was smoking then I stopped for four years,” he says.
Whereas some people can just quit (sometimes even cold turkey), it wasn’t easy for Butler to ditch the habit.
“It took me 40 attempts to stop. I was hypnotized 23 times, I had my veins injected with sodium pentothal had my ears electrolyzed and my hands lasered,” he tells Leno.
“About three months ago, I was out with some friends – Russell Crowe was one of them. There was 12 of them and 11 of them were smoking. That was it, I was off,” the actor comes clean.
He smoked for another month and was then back to his previous healthy life. Even if was for only a short while, he did not enjoy it.
“It was only a month, it was a little blip. I’ve got to tell you, it was horrific,” Gerard explains.
In the same interview, Gerard also talks a bit about his latest film, “Machine Gun Preacher,” based on the true story of a man who moves to Africa to help children, in his own unique, unconventional way.
Check out the second video as well to hear him talk about that.