If you said, 'I'm giving up smoking,' people would put on a parade. If you said, 'I'm going to eat more healthily,' people would say, 'Good for you.' If it's drinking, the first reaction is, 'That's so boring. You're going to be so boring.'
I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.
One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.
Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn't be successful until I let the street life go.
I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.
Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.
I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?
When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.
A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.
Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
