Smoking is so addictive that I decided to quit overnight two and a half years ago, and did.
(I've had flirts with other forms of addiction that were much harder to overcome - is not an attempt to sound cool.)
What's called addiction with nicotine is mostly social reinforcement.
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Yeah, well, at that point you can call reading the newspaper an addiction.
If you do something most of your adult life, or, say, from a very young age, it's extremely difficult to shake that behavior.
A lot of the issues defining addiction come from the disease model, IMO.
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