Withdrawal Symptoms Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

Drugs scared me.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I feel like a caffeine addict.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Drugs have always scared me.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.