"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago."
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"Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention."
"The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them."
"An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day."
"I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco."
"I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago."
"It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful"
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
"There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke."
"Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me."
"Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living."
"I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop."
"It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to."
"What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle."
"I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know."
"Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk."
"I love cigarettes. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is."
"Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion."
"Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop."
"An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking."