Quotes About Nicotine

#1. She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car's hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.

Brigid Kemmerer

#2. Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.

Scott Stossel

#3. The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

Sebastian Faulks

#4. Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

Tommy Chong

#5. No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face ...

Carrie Nation

#6. Nicotine is a fast acting drug with short lived effects, which you can assume by the fact that you need to smoke often.

Gudjon Bergmann

#7. The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Gray

#8. The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

Phillip Adams

#9. If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

Doug Stanhope

#10. I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

R. J. Reynolds

#11. His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.

Stephen King

#12. More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

Deepak Chopra

#14. A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

Hal Duncan

#15. There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the way the smoke rises in curls, that feeling of peace as the nicotine hits the back of the throat. I will give up smoking when they invent something better than smoking.

Chloe Thurlow

#16. As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women?

Richard Yates

#17. The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.

Jimmy Carter

#18. When you eat sugar, according to research by Bartley Hoebel of Princeton University, it triggers a response in the same part of the brain - known as the "reward center" - that is targeted by cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and other addictive substances.

Anonymous

#19. Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

Christy Turlington

#20. Rose Marie, wrapped in a wool shawl, was sitting on a lounge chair, smoking a cigarette; nicotine gum, she said, was for pussies. She was a short woman, going to weight, with an ever-changing hair color.

John Sandford

#21. I believe nicotine is not addictive.

William Campbell

#22. I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Umberto Eco

#23. I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

David Eagleman

#24. There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive ... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

Rush Limbaugh

#25. I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine.
But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

Rakim

#26. After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.

Tom Brokaw

#27. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

Sharyn McCrumb

#28. Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life ... even nicotine cravings

Aristotle.

#29. Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

Ian Fleming

#30. I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

John Daly

#31. Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#32. Smoking marijuana, as long as you leave the nicotine out of it, is certainly no more damaging than having a drink, and I suspect better for you than having a drink.

Richard Branson

#33. I still look at my job as being a doctor of the people, and I'm going to look at the science ... If we can find a viable alternative that gave us harm reduction as people are withdrawing from nicotine, I'm happy to engage in that science and see if we can do that.

Richard Carmona

#34. Maybe he's got a nicotine crave on. That must really suck: being a zombie who can't get a smoke

Kirsty McKay

#35. Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Carrie Nation

#36. Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#37. Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the lung greedily absorbing the nicotine. Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction.

Jo Nesbo

#38. The cigarette hung unlit from his lips. Was he doomed to roam forever in his ghost state, always wanting to light that cigarette? A small twinge of satisfaction rolled through me at the thought of him in permanent nicotine withdrawal.

Deanna Chase

#39. If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine
off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the
tanks to control you.

Dick Gregory

#40. All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.

Ole H.

#41. Nicotine addicted, persecuted, her day is a maddening circle of tea and biscuits, baking, smoking, the necessary fiction of the housewife.

James Claffey

#42. We crossed the Avenue Bosquet against the light and then we made an arbitrary left into the Rue Jean Nicot. Joe stopped at a tabac and bought cigarettes. I would have smiled if I had been able to. The street was named after the guy who discovered nicotine.

Lee Child

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

Glen Duncan

#44. No one answers. It feels as if I'm not there, as if I'm as invisible as the nicotine they're inhaling.

Ida Lokas

#45. Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class.

Buddy Wakefield

#46. We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.

Tana French

#47. Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

Allen Carr

#48. She often had a temper that made a PMS-ing harpy going into nicotine withdrawal look like a chubby fuzzy bunny that burped daisies and shot rainbows out its ass.

Amy Lane

#49. They stamp the slush off their boots with autopilot eyes and answering-machine voices while they wait for their drug of choice - caffeine or nicotine or sugar - to kick in and render their bodies at least tolerably functional until the first break. Out

Fredrik Backman

#50. It started with nothing more than a yearning for nicotine and beauty.

J.K. Rowling

#51. 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

John Candy

#52. These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

Elizabeth Winder

#53. We are basically in the nicotine business ... Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

R. J. Reynolds

#54. By now the night tastes of nothing but ash. But nicotine substitutes for food, nicotine substitutes for sleep, and there is so little time left for the future, once all the demands of the present are taken care of.

Francis Spufford

#55. So you're out here mainlining caffeine and nicotine, or what?
Gotta have my fix. I mean, I prefer a good morning fuck to wake me up.
Well, it's a good thing you've got the coffee and the cigarettes, then.

Sabrina Paige

#56. Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Norman Mailer

#57. I had never tasted nicotine until I kissed your mouth, and I had never craved a cigarrete until you left...

Francisco Castro

#58. Last Halloween I ran out of candy and I had to give the kids nicotine gum.

David Letterman

#59. The nicotine worked to calm his nerves like a Swedish masseuse.

Mark C. Scioneaux

#60. Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations ... and it can defeat that nicotine

Napoleon Hill

#61. [A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

R. J. Reynolds

#62. Nicotine had been isolated and synthesized in the nineteenth century. In pure form, it took an ounce at most to kill the average adult.

Deborah Blum

#63. Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

Mark Knopfler

#64. He smelled of moon swamps and old Egyptian bandages. He was something found in museums, wrapped in nicotine linens, sealed in glass. But he was alive, puling like a babe, and shriveling unto death, fast, very fast, before their eyes.

Ray Bradbury

#65. She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good. She

Mike Omer

#66. Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

John B. Larson

#67. Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

Bill Hicks