By this time it's too late, and the person is hooked.

The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

They have an incentive to keep us hooked.

without sustained external pressure it seems certain Mr. Cameron would still be hooked on the interests of big tobacco companies