“I think there’s a degree of luck and intellect involved in giving up things that hurt you. It seems to me it comes down to this.
Drugs and these things are wonderful when you first try them. They haven’t been around for all these millennia for nothing. First time it’s mostly pleasure very little pain, maybe a hangover. And as you increase and keep using whatever it is, the pleasure part decreases and the pain part, the price you pay increases until the balance is completely the other way and it’s almost all pain and there’s hardly any pleasure. At that point you would hope that the intellect would say Ohhhh, this doesn’t’ work anymore, I’m going to die. But you need people around you that can help you and you need something to live for.” George Carlin