Addiction Management Quotes

I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I just hope by how I live my life every day that people can see there is another side to addiction. You can live with it and have a successful life.

I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!