Quotes About Addiction

Todas las razones para dejar de fumar, hacen que sea más difícil dejarlo por otras dos razones. Primero mero, porque provocan una sensación de sacrificio. Siempre pensamos que nos están obligando a sacrificar a nuestro pequeño amigo, o apoyo, o vicio, o placer, o como quieras llamarlo

porque crean una distracción. Siempre nos concentramos en las razones por las que no deberíamos de fumar, pero nunca analizamos las razones por las que fumamos. La verdadera pregunta es: '¿Por qué necesitamos hacerlo?

Smoking creates an artificial feeling of insecurity and emptiness.

Allen Carr saved my life.

only reason you ever thought it did was because each joint brought a little bit of relief from the craving caused by the one before.

We very quickly start to feel cleansed, but the Little Monster is demanding its fix. If we're using the wrong method, we interpret these cries as "I want a joint," and although we might hold out to begin with, eventually the Big Monster will have its way and we find ourselves back in the trap.

You do not need to smoke. It's the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn't the last thing you do.

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

A smoker's reaction to any stressful situation is to light a cigarette.

For example, those of you who think it is just a habit, ask yourselves why other habits, some of them enjoyable ones, are easy to break, yet a habit that tastes awful, costs us a fortune and kills us is so difficult to break.

I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn't be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.

Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it

The true situation is this: when you are addicted to nicotine and are not smoking, there is something missing.

for me, is the saddest thing about smoking: the only 'enjoyment' a smoker gets from a cigarette is temporary relief from the discomfort created by the previous one. All the smoker is looking for is the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that they had before they started smoking in the first place.

HOW the ADDICTION STARTS • ALARM BELLS • THAT EMPTY FEELING • ONE CIGARETTE LEADS TO ANOTHER • RE-PROGRAMMING YOUR BRAIN • THE KEY TO ESCAPE

Alcohol doesn't benefit anybody except the industry that peddles it. There is no demarcation line between "normal" drinking and problem drinking; it is all part of the same disease. The problem drinker is just at a more advanced stage.

Less intelligent creatures would heed that warning, yet the human species has been brainwashed to ignore it. Smokers who are already hooked say, "Keep trying, it's an acquired taste.

The desire to drink comes from the Big Monster—the illusion that drinking gives us pleasure or support. • The edgy feeling we get when we're without a drink is merely the Little Monster wanting to be fed. • The Little Monster was created by drinking in the first place. • Therefore drinking does not relieve the anxiety, it causes it.

kill the Big Monster first. You unravel the brainwashing and see alcohol for what it really is: an addictive poison that controls and debilitates those who take it. Then the Little Monster is easy to deal with. In fact, you can enjoy the process, confident in the knowledge that you're destroying a mortal enemy.

what we are 'enjoying' when we smoke after a period of abstinence is not the cigarette, but ending the state of wanting or needing it.

Physically I was so low that I knew that if I didn't stop I would soon be dead, yet mentally I was so dependent on my 'crutch' that I was prepared to die rather than stop.

When I had tried to stop previously there were weeks of dark depression. There would be odd days when I was comparatively cheerful but the next day I would invariably sink back into the misery and depression. It was like clawing your way out of a slippery pit—you feel that you are nearing the top; you can see the sunshine—and then find yourself sliding back down again.

So just relax, keep your mind open, and accept the feeling for what it is: the Little Monster fading away. In this frame of mind, these become moments of real pleasure rather than moments of struggle.

It's not your personality that addicts you, but an addictive drug.