[Lazamataz]

Quiting an addition is simple, want to quit and quit. People that can’t quit don’t want to!!!! There’s no half way.

You often strike me as very cantankerous and not a terribly deep poster.

However, this is the single most profound and true thing about addiction I have ever read on this forum.

Well done.

Signed, Laz -- a former addict.

[zeestephen]

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.

[Jonty30]

There is that. However, most people need the social support to be able to keep from being tempted. Not everybody has a family member or friend they can visit to keep them occupied until temptation passes.

It also helps to develop a healthy fear of that first use.