Quotes About Addiction

Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.)

Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. We must beware of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites.

I'm addicted to this exercise — I never skip a day!

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.

Sleep deprivation is my drug of choice.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.

Tobacco is a harmful weed, the learned physicians are agreed. It stains the teeth and bites the tongue, and injures larynx, heart and lung, it spoils the whiskers, taints the breath, and sends man to an early death...

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

To many, the cigarette is a portable therapist.

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.

The cigarette is a mortal passion.

A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.

Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it.

They become so obsessed with their supply that they ignore their friends, their jobs, the needs of their children, and their own health. Addicts are blind to everything but their own needs.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Because sex, drugs, and religion all hinge on the same kind of simple neurochemical events: addictive, euphoric, exhilirating - and all, equally, meaningless.

he didn't drink to numb his senses. He drank to try to cleanse himself from the inside out. He pressed

Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.