Melgibson was smoking in the womb

Mel Gibson struggled to quit
smoking because he started
when he was in the womb.
The Mad Max star is still battling
his addiction to nicotine after
quitting last year and he's
convinced it would have been
much easier for him to quit if
his mother hadn't been a
smoker when she was pregnant
with him.
The actor tells Wenn, it is a
hellish habit to break. Your
neurons are involved. My
mother smoked when I was in
her womb. I first had one when
I was nine years old and I
thought, 'Yes, I missed this!' I
knew I missed it.
And 45 years later, after every
single artistic decision; every
decision I'd ever made was
done with a cigarette. To not
have that is pretty hectic. It's
worse than crawling the walls,
which I did for a while. There's
no more fun things left. I just
don't do anything fun
anymore; but that's dying isn't
it? I mean you die in stages. You
let things go in pieces. It's
mostly over halfway through.
But glum Gibson, a new dad,
admits quitting smoking is just
the start of a new health
regime for him: I try and eat
right and exercise a little.