Paul Giamatti became so stressed on the set of new TV movie John Adams, he took up smoking again - eight years after he quit. The actor, who plays United States founding father Adams in the two part historical epic, blames co-star Tom Wilkinson for tempting him to pick up cigarettes again in between takes.

He says, "I'd had enough. It was a tough job. John Hancock was on the phone to his agent... and Ben Franklin (Wilkinson) was having a Marlboro Light. So I said, 'Give a founding father a cigarette. This revolution is killing me.' It was a very tough time."

Giamatti is planning to take up yoga to help him quit: "It helped me quit smoking before. So it may help me again."

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