Quotes About Addiction

Sko?czy?y si? papierosy. A jak si? sko?cz? papierosy, wtedy ogarnia cz?owieka raptowna ch?? zaci?gni?cia si? dymem.

I'm not addicted to reading. I can quit as soon as I finish the next chapter.

Cocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years

Codeine . . . bourbon.

I wanted it the way an alcoholic must want booze: badly enough to shove aside the hard knowledge that this was a truly lousy idea.

Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon.

Her mother used to say that hope was nothing but a heartache that hadn't happened yet. But Angela was still addicted to it. She had never learned how to give it up.

Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure

When she felt strong cravings she now phoned her sponsor instead of directly heading for the refrigerator. This is what I would call an "assisted pause"—together they could look at what she was feeling and explore some options on how to respond.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation. I've overcome abandonment and abuse. I've overcome physical and mental brutality, and fought back. I've triumphed over addiction.

You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.

The more I wrote, the less I needed to play. Once I got started I couldn't stop. This was my salvation. Writing was a better, healthier, and more enjoyable addiction than gambling, even though gambling was a hell of a lot more lucrative. Playing poker, the gratification isn't delayed. Writing, you sometimes have to wait years for the full punishment.

I'm a serial scroller, and whenever I have a minute to spare, you'll find me on my phone scrolling through Instagram.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I love to do Pilates, Bar Method, and spin. I'm addicted.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.