“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.”
Peter McWilliams
“Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.”
C. C. DeVille
“Impulse control means learning to think it through before you act it out.”
Terence T. Gorski
“Addictions are a state of body ones state of mind indulges”
BJ Morin
“People don't treat smoking as an addiction. They treat it as a dirty habit.”
Renata Tate
“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.”
David Ryan
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
Shirley Chisholm
