Quotes About Addiction

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Policies I advanced as FDA commissioner aimed to get smokers off cigarettes and onto less-harmful forms of nicotine delivery.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

If you said, 'I'm giving up smoking,' people would put on a parade. If you said, 'I'm going to eat more healthily,' people would say, 'Good for you.' If it's drinking, the first reaction is, 'That's so boring. You're going to be so boring.'

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Smoking is gross.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That's the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.

It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.