Quotes About Addiction

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

My son is living proof that those like him can not only be treated, but can live lives free of the pain that plagued them and the disease that controlled them.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.

It was during that term that I began to realise that Sebastian was a drunkard in quite a different sense to myself. I got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enchant it; Sebastian drank to escape.

The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.

El sueño es la peor de las cocaínas, por ser la más natural de todas.

I'm a movie fanatic. I watch probably four movies a day - not because I'm a lunatic, but because I just love movies.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

I am a chocolate fiend.

The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to 'Fifa 14.'

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

'Trainspotting' is among my favourite films of all time.

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.