understanding addiction....

A couple very closed minded replies. I kicked cigarettes after years of trying, and I was only at worst a pack a day. I am glad for some of you who we're able to quit drinking cold turkey. Many cannot without withdrawing. I am talking hallucinations, coma, and death. Even for functioning alcoholics. My wife is a nurse and this is very real. Addiction doesn't just happen to the weak minded or the mentally ill. Cigs, gambling, sex, drugs, booze... Some only need one try to get hooked. All of us know somebody with an addiction, many of us have or had one. Even when you have kicked it, you are still addict, and here is where the strong willpower is needed to stay away from it.