Nicotine Quotes

• If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

  Dick Gregory

  Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol, Drug

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• I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

  John Daly

  Believe, Golf, Protein

  "John Daly, novelty act or cult hero, still irresistible to Open crowds" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2015.

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• Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

  John B. Larson

  Teenager, Brain, Development

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

  Carrie Nation

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

  Aristotle

  Encouragement, Overcoming, Today

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• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  Umberto Eco

  Brain, Helping, Help Me

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• Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

  Tommy Chong

  Cigarette

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• Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

  Christy Turlington

  Feels, Depressants, Stimulants

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• I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine.
  But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

  Rakim

  Rap, Mean, Hip Hop

  Song: Microphone Fiend

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• I believe nicotine is not addictive.

  William Campbell

  Believe, I Believe

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• I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Believe, Addiction, Desire

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• Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking

  Amy Jenkins

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Evil, Sticks, Helping

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• 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.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

  Norman Mailer

  Psychics, Quarantine, Existential

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sex, Civilization, Numbers

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• If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

  Doug Stanhope

  Hands, People, Killing

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• Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
  Worst hangover that I ever had.
  It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
  Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

  Mark Knopfler

  Drinking, Hangover, Night

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• Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

  Glen Duncan

  Sibling, Grateful, Long

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

  David Eagleman

  Impulse Control, Labs, Study

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Believe, Thinking, Smoking

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• [A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Addiction, Regulation, Kicks

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• We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Addiction, Cost, Significant

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• Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Drug, Nerves, Tools

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum

  John Candy

  Years, Smoking, Hey

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