Brian Posehn Quotes

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 off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

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

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

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

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment programs and four outpatient programs. He would do better for a while, but then relapse. Each relapse was crushing.

It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'

I quit drinking, smoking, doing anything bad.

And I want out of this life on drugs.