Quotes About Addiction

I fell into seed and nursery catalogs, discovering a new addiction I have never recovered from. Indeed, I feel quite virtuous when, reading a catalog with 150 old-fashioned and species roses in it, I order only fourteen.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

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The fact that we use our phones twice as many times as we think we do indicates that a lot of smartphone use seems to be habitual, automatic behaviors that we have no awareness of."7

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Fear can be headier than whisky once man has acquired a taste for it.

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Food is my drug of choice.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.