Bill Nighy Quits Cigarettes and Sugar

British actor Bill Nighy is most known for his roles in Love, Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean.  Now, the 59-year-old has decided to take up a new cause as he’s approaching the later years and has made some drastic changes in his lifestyle habits.  Most recently,  he became the spokesman for the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon in England in hopes of encouraging people to take advantage of public parks and exercise.

Bill told the Daily Telegraph that he quit drinking alcohol 15 years ago, but now he has quit smoking and also cut out sugar.

“One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say one thing to anybody starting out in life, I would say: ‘Whatever you do, don’t smoke.’ I have had to recover from that and I have been lucky that I have been able to stop.”

He then goes on to explain that quitting the cigarettes caused him to rely on another vice for awhile; sugar:

“I hit sugar when I gave up cigarettes. I binged my way off cigarettes on fruit gums, Lion bars and Magnums. I have no brakes in certain areas. I tend to gorge, so to be free of it is marvelous. It also means I eat lots of fruit, which I never used to. And it means I am hungry, properly hungry, when I’m supposed to be. So I don’t snack. God, I sound so marvelous.”

And lastly, here’s what he had to say about exercise when it comes to his new found lifestyle:

“I don’t have a strict regime, but I do a bit of exercise, and I try not to put things in my body that might hurt me.  In the modern world, one needs to do something in terms of exercise because we don’t do manual labour any more. With any kind of exercise, what I like is the reward. You get to feel much better, and that’s what keeps me coming back.”

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