“I had to take the patches off”: Leonardo DiCaprio’s Decision to Stop Smoking Gave Him Hellish Nightmares of Mass Murders That Left Him Disturbed

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the gems of Hollywood. Working with some of the biggest directors in the industry, he has become an A-lister and one of the most bankable stars.

Despite all the respect he has earned for his work as an actor, his personal life seems to sometimes overshadow it all.

His infamous dating scandals and habits often make headlines that taint the shiny image he has worked hard to build.

Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Titanic actor often makes headlines for his love of parties and allegedly dating women way younger than him.

The actor also struggled with addiction to smoking cigarettes for a long time.

When the actor finally decided to quit, he struggled and had nightmares.

Leonardo DiCaprio had hellish nightmares after he quit smoking

There was a time when fans noticed that almost in every photo taken by the paparazzi, Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted smoking a cigarette.

The smoking habits of the actor soon became the center of the headlines about the actor.

But the actor decided to change that and quit the hazardous habit. But the journey wasn’t an easy one.

Leonardo DiCaprio.
In an interview with Parade, Leonardo DiCaprio talked about how hard it was to finally quit smoking.

The actor shared that he had used nicotine patches once, which is a common method people adopt to quit smoking, but it made things worse for him.

He shared,

“I usually don’t [remember my dreams].

But when I used a nicotine patch when I was trying to quit smoking, I did have bloodcurdling nightmares of mass murders, and I woke up in the middle of the night and had to take the patches off.”

The actor even confessed in the interview that he would have picked death over nightmares if he were given a choice.

He soon decided to stop wearing the patches and find other alternatives.

After this, the actor started using electronic cigarettes, which are for now considered somewhat less hazardous than cigarettes.

Leonardo DiCaprio once made a photographer delete a photo of him

As already mentioned above, the actor was often photographed smoking by the paparazzi.

In one such instance, he made a photographer delete his photo so that his mother wouldn’t find out about his addiction.

Photographer Steve Eichner, while talking to Page Six revealed he captured DiCaprio along with Johnny Depp while they were working together on What’s Eating Gilbert Grapes.

In the image, the Titanic actor, who was 19 at the time was buying a cigarette along with his co-star.

Leonardo DiCaprio.
The actor then approached the photographer and asked him to delete the said image before it got published and his mother found out about his smoking habits.

Seems like later he grew more comfortable with his mother knowing about his smoking, as he has even smoked in the middle of interviews.

Well, the actor has now left smoking cigarettes but still indulges in it at parties, as spotted in occasional photos.