Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

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

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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!

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

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

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.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

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.

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

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

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.

It is hard to quit smoking. Every one of them looks real good to me right about now. Every cigarette looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and moistened shut with Claudia Schiffer's pussy.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.