Gillian Jacobs Quotes

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

I could never afford to be in a position where I could do something stupid, so I gave up drinking.

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.

The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-6 times each day. You have to make that choice even when you really don't want to. It's not a single choice, and it's not easy.

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.