“Don't say you can't give up drinking. It's easy. I've done it a thousand times.”
The Temperance Lecture
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“It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times ”
The Observer (1964-12-27)
Misattributed to George Bernard Shaw on The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 14: The War At Home. Fictional President Bartlett, smoking a cigarette, spoke the second half of the quote and attributed it to Shaw. His chief of staff disputed whether it was Shaw, and the President concurred.

As quoted in The Business of Baseball (2003) by Albert Theodore Powers, p. 61

“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).

“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.”
As quoted in In God's Care : Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery (1991) by James Jennings and Karen Casey