Frederik Pohl Quotes

I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

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

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

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

This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

I hate to say it, but, yeah, I'm a tobacco junkie.

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

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

I smoke, I want to get rid of the habit.