Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He...

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has...

She went weak in the knees and could barely walk as she followed him, trembling with fear. Her hopes for a happy future with Jordan came crashing down. Whoever had told Jordan she was free...

It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.

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.

When you push someone’s head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn’t matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It’s just a natural process. If their head is under...

Some, they didn’t make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let...

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it’s better than smoking, that’s what I say. It’s the new, lung-safe cigarette.

I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you’d never do. You’ll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly...

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They’re all addictive.

Kujua ukweli juu ya uraibu wa madawa ya kulevya kunaweza kumsaidia mtu kujua madhara ya madawa ya kulevya.

I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY

How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that “once an alcoholic or addict, always an...

Sometimes…Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith.Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength.Sometimes addiction is the opposite...

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it’s you I’m addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You’ve read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you...

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

What they don’t tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I...

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary – grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there’s still time.

Too many codeine pills,Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals

Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

There’s so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

What the hell is that?” he asked.”Magic mushrooms.””I’ve always wanted to try those,” he exclaimed. “They sound so cute.

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

I think it’s easy to stop smoking; it’s just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and...

I lived to be forgotten because I’d forgotten how to live

as i discovered, the path to sobriety is a precarious, complex journey. you obviously want to purge yourself of something that has been so destructive and has had such a grip on you. but in...

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I’m so in love with you I can’t stand up.

If the president is serious about ending our oil addiction, he needs to commit to accelerating the solutions available today, like stronger fuel-economy performance standards for all vehicles, hybrid vehicles and clean-burning fuels made from...

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their “loved ones” or friends or business associates or political...

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety,...

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more...

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

There is no cell culture for depression. You can’t see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the morning, a midmorning bracer before attempting anything serious, a few modest cocktails at...