Rakim Quotes

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?

I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

I'm an addict for underwear.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

The Spaniards generally call it Tobacco. The leaves thereof being dried and brought into powder, they use to take the fume or smoke thereof, by sucking it thorough pipes made of clay, into their stomach and head; from whence it purgeth superfluous phlegm and other gross humours, and openeth all the pores and passages of the body: by which means the use thereof not only preserveth the body from obstructions, but also … in short time breaketh them; whereby their bodies are notably preserved in health, and know not many grievous diseases, wherewithall we in England are often times afflicted.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

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

There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

I only eat so that I can smoke and stay alive.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.