Nicotine Quotes

“Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“As a French poet once said, some people smoke to put nicotine in their veins, others to put a cloud between them and others”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“It has always been more about a relapse than it is about quitting. I have met hundreds of people who quit cigarettes every day. But do they succeed at it?

No, they just quit every day.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“For some people quitting foods, say chocolate, can be as hard as kicking heroin is for a junkie. Food hooks people by triggering the exact chemical reactions triggered in the brain by hard drugs. Or nicotine. Or alcohol. Or shopping. Or sex.”
― Rebecca Skloot

“No one answers. It feels as if I’m not there, as if I’m as invisible as the nicotine they’re inhaling.”
― Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi

“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, From Russia with Love

“it's hard to find people who actually like smoking. Some are hooked; others try forcefully until they are hooked as well.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“I was just a little buckaroo when they first invited me to Marlboro Country. I loved being a cowboy; and smoking seemed to fit right in with riding, roping and wrangling. But once I got to where the Flavor was, it would take me four decades to find a trail out of Nicotine Canyon. I finally ran out of reasons to smoke...when I ran out of air...”
― John Aaron, Romancing the Smoke: Reflections of a Nicotine Addict

“It is way less foolish to throw your money away than it is to use it to buy and then consume things such as cigarettes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Human use of tobacco began as early as 12,300 years ago, according to recent evidence unearthed from Utah, a few hours' drive north of where the tobacco hornworms that repelled the spiders were studied. Previously, the oldest evidence of tobacco use by Indigenous peoples of the Americas came from pipe residues dating to around 3,300 years ago. As scientists did with ‘Sid’ the Neanderthal, researchers can recover nicotine from the tar­ tar of human teeth discovered in the archaeological record. Tartar from both an Indigenous woman buried around 630 years ago and a man buried 420 years ago not far from where I live in what is now Oakland was positive for nicotine.”
― Noah Whiteman, Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

“Einbeita sér, Steinn, sagði ég við sjálfan mig. Þetta er bara skýrsla. Þú ert enga stund að lesa þetta. Ég settist aftur við, leit á skjáinn, stóð upp, ákvað að laga kaffi. Að lifa í líkama er eins og að eiga hund, ýmislegt sem þarf að gera til að halda honum góðum. Kaffi er gott til að halda honum uppteknum á meðan hugurinn fæst við lestur. Næstum jafn gott og nikótín. Sestu drengur, sestu, sagði ég við hundinn í mér og gaf honum kaffi að naga. Það dugði, ég varð aftur læs.”
― Haukur Már Helgason, Staðreyndirnar