Quotes About Addiction

Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.

I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

You don't even realise how much you need Internet, but it really stops you from doing a lot.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I think anything with a serialized storyline is a perfect match for binge-watching.

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

It is kind of a strange thing when you face things in your life, you know like addictions, that often you will find that you will deal with it a little bit but then you will slip back into old ways.

I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.

I remember when 'Stranger Things' came out, if I had to watch one episode a week, I wouldn't have been nearly as into it as I was when I just sat there and watched the whole thing in, like, two days.

This guy's testimony is awesome. I hate my testimony. I wish I was addicted to heroin. But no. I had to grow up in a somewhat functional family situation. It's just not fair. Why can't I be a crack addict who robbed Fort Knox using nothing but a can of hairspray and a plastic ice cream scoop? Thanks a lot, God.

I need you like a needle needs a vein.

Carbohydrates are as powerfully psychoactive as nicotine, alcohol and opioids, and are as rapidly addictive. Unless you are a performance athlete, most Type 2 diabetics are simply people who over time have transitioned away from eating for the nutritional value of food toward eating primarily for the endorphin release and emotional management effect of a powerful psychoactive drug called sugar.

Cognitive behavioural therapy for carbohydrate addicts begins with abstinence (see definition below) and removal of the drug from a patient's local environment.

According to glycemic index principles, it would be fine for an alcoholic to drink beer, but not whisky since beer raises your blood alcohol level more slowly, making beer healthy, but whisky not. If abstinence is curative, what value is there in the science of less? Asking a diabetic to count their carbohydrates is no different than asking an alcoholic to count their drinks.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.