Quotes About Addiction

The body cannot crave nicotine. Only the brain can crave.

Remember: all you actually enjoy when you smoke is attempting to get back to the relaxed state that non-smokers enjoy throughout their lives.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

The only pleasure or crutch smokers receive when they light up is the perceived relief of the empty, insecure feeling of the body withdrawing from nicotine that nonsmokers don't suffer from anyway. 2. Each cigarette, far from relieving the empty feeling, actually causes it, so the perception of a pleasure or crutch is an illusion. It's like putting on tight shoes to get the pleasure or relief of removing them.

These cigarettes are the equivalent of wearing tight shoes to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.

Chasing the dragon is an art, you know – it must be done properly.

She was the scab he couldn't stop picking, the split lip he couldn't stop biting at, the loose thread he couldn't stop tugging

I don't do sober any more. Sober hurts.

Strange, isn't it? You keep having to check how disgusting it is. Then, one day, you check and you find you actually like it. Soon after, no other drink will quite scratch that itch. I've often felt that people are the same.

Simply put, most of us are addicted to the problems and conditions of our lives that produce stress. No matter whether we're in a bad job or a bad relationship, we hold our troubles close to us because they help reinforce who we are as a somebody; they feed our addictions to low-frequency emotions.

It becomes difficult to think or feel in any new ways when you are addicted to your outer world.

You might use your enemies to reaffirm your addiction to hatred, your parents to reaffirm your addiction to guilt, your Facebook feed to reaffirm your addiction to insecurity, the news to reaffirm your addiction to anger, your ex to reaffirm your addiction to resentment, and your relationship with money to reaffirm your addiction to lack.

Whether we're addicted to cigarettes, chocolate, alcohol, shopping, gambling, or biting our nails, the moment we cease the habitual action, chaos rages between the body and the mind.

When the emotions of survival have a hold on us, we need the conditions in our external world (our problems with different people, financial hardships, fear of terrorism, disdain for our job) to reaffirm our addiction to those emotions.

the long-term effect of living in survival mode is that we begin to thrive on—and become addicted to—these stress chemicals.

But it is imperative to realize that behind every addiction, there is some memorized emotion that is driving the behavior.

estados mentales representan una actitud motivada por los sentimientos memorizados anclados subconscientemente en el cuerpo. Una actitud es una serie de pensamientos conectados a un sentimiento, o viceversa. Es el ciclo repetitivo de pensar y sentir, sentir y pensar. Por esta razón debes definir el hábito neural que tu adicción emocional ha creado.

Most of us live in the past and resist living in a new future. Why? The body is so habituated to memorizing the chemical records of our past experiences that it grows attached to these emotions. In a very real sense, we become addicted to those familiar feelings. So when we want to look to the future and dream of new vistas and bold landscapes in our not-too-distant reality, the body, whose currency is feelings, resists the sudden change in direction.

La tecnología es una gran distracción y una poderosa adicción. Piensa en ello: puedes cambiar en el acto tu química interior y hacer que un sentimiento desaparezca al cambiar algo del exterior.

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.