There’s another true thing about addiction...
For many people, drugs and alcohol are really fun.
I had the two easiest - or perhaps the most slowly destructive - addictions.
Cigarettes and marijuana.
I quit both around age 40, not because I wanted to, but because I knew they would destroy my health if I did not.
Smoke free for 25 years (and I live two blocks away from a legal marijuana store!), but I thoroughly enjoyed every puff before I stopped.
Congratulations on choosing to live a healthy life. I still have a lot of homework to do on that angle myself. I’ve quit smokes a couple of times, meat too here and there, but the key is in every instance, the final decision was mine. Smokers can be very stubborn, even rebellious in our personal pursuits of happiness. Overt second or third party nagging to change my ways does not usually work with me, at least not in the long run.