Smoking Quotations

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

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

You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.

Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

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.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

More restrictive smoking policies in the workplace prompt people to quit smoking. It is well-documented that most smokers want to quit smoking. This action by the hospitals may prompt those who desire to quit smoking to do so.

I would call this the smoking gun. All of us have been concerned and have guessed that the data we have so far has been the tip of the iceberg.

Nobody could pretend that the smoking ban is anything but negative for the pub industry. However, the fact that private members clubs are included in the ban means that community pub operators are not at an unfair disadvantage.

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

Let's assume steroids are very bad to take, but I have no doubt that they are not worse than cigarettes, ... I would never say that to the clubs as an individual who represents the interests of players, 'Gee, I guess by not allowing baseball to suspend and fine players for smoking cigarettes, I am not protecting their health.'

My first inclination is to vote to ban all smoking inside.

Maybe the restaurants could change the rules to allow smoking only at night when it becomes more of a bar setting.

Maybe this is a transitional period with no impact. Maybe these young people get married, cut back drinking, quit smoking and their diet improves. I can't wait to find out.

Nobody should have to breathe someone else's smoke passively and a smoking ban I am sure would be welcomed by the vast majority of people.

Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house.

Next to the things everybody does like smoking and drinking behind your parent's back, I did forge a drivers license when I was sixteen.

Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.

Obviously, nothing would make us happier than to have every one of our employees take advantage of our smoking cessation program.

Now that we know that smoking produces detrimental effects on treatment outcomes, it makes sense that this is a contributing factor that could affect the success of a clinical trial.

Peter Jennings was at the forefront of reporting on the dangers of smoking and tobacco throughout his career, and we are committed to carrying on his work.

We're looking at the bigger picture. A smoking ban is such a negative term. We're looking from a positive side rather than a negative side.

Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.

Maybe we'll try it non smoking and still, if worse case scenario as far as daily and monthly income requires, maybe we'll have to go back and re-do things.