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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan

cigarette smoking for what it is: an addiction.

Yet a bunch of FReepers still claim it's a habit.

10 posted on 10/01/2011 2:03:18 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)

One of the following is true.

Smoking is a habit.

-or-

With sufficient willpower, one can just stop an addiciton.

When I quit smoking, I picked a day when I would start not smoking, if you follow me, and did it. I think I stopped indulging in a habit. You may think I stopped partaking in an addiction.

It’s all the same to me,or at least, the result is the same; I used to smoke, I don’t smoke now, and I don’t want to smoke.

So it’s mere curiosity that makes me ask, what do you think? Did I stop a habit, or an addiction, simply by wanting to hard enough?

13 posted on 10/01/2011 6:19:05 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (I have been called intolerant. It's true. I refuse to tolerate the intolerable.)

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