You're being very selective. If someone stops smoking, you ignore that. As soon as they start again, you cry "addiction!". But if it was an addiction, it would be very hard to stop in the first place, which for many people it is not. An addict cannot stop doing something without great difficulty yet many smokers do stop, with no difficulty. It hasn't ocurred to you that if they do decide to start again, that it might just be out of choice. It certainly cannot be due to addiction because an addiction would have made it hard to stop, which as I say is not the case for many people. And your comparison is flawed because it is one dimensional. What I am saying is that addiction involves two things : a substance, and an individual.
Poor old eilonnwy, to make herself feel better about her addiction, she actually believes that all smokers are in the same boat as her. She doubts it when someone tells her that they have stopped smoking for very long periods of time with no trouble at all, and she reverts to spouting the usual mantra about nicotine. She can't even believe that we're having this discussion, that's how brainwashed she is. To her, nicotine is like heroin. What about chocolate? Is that addictive? Many people can't stop eating it. Then again, others eat it occasionally. Eilonnwy probably thinks chocolate is also like heroin.
Poor old eilonnwy, to make herself feel better about her addiction, she actually believes that all smokers are in the same boat as her. She doubts it when someone tells her that they have stopped smoking for very long periods of time with no trouble at all, and she reverts to spouting the usual mantra about nicotine. She can't even believe that we're having this discussion, that's how brainwashed she is. To her, nicotine is like heroin. What about chocolate? Is that addictive? Many people can't stop eating it. Then again, others eat it occasionally. Eilonnwy probably thinks chocolate is also like heroin.
