Quote Originally Posted by euphoricism
I never understood this. Ive smoked cigarrettes before, and I've never become addicted. Shit, I had 3 cigarrettes last night at a party. I certainly dont feel the need to run out there and buy a pack now. Maybe I just have a low propensity toward addiction? But it always made me scoff at those people who say its so hard to quit. Just... stop buying them? I don't get it.

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1) It takes a good amount of smoking to get physically addicted. 3 cigarettes won't do it.

2) There are other social addictions associated with smoking that are MUCH stronger than the physical addiction, and much harder to get away from (see boost's examples in his other thread about smoking).

3) As boost pointed out in this thread there might also be other personal issues tied to smoking where the cigarettes themselves don't have as much to do with the addiciton as these other issues, but they gave been psychologically tied together. Same is true with any addiction.

4) jukejointroach said you're a fucking idiot, which definitely isn't true, but what I think he meant to say is that you're statement showed a surprising lack of thought, like you didn't even try to consider why smoking could be a difficult problem before dismissing it. At the same time, I see exactly where you're coming from. It SHOULD be so simple to deal with. But it's not. A lot of human problems have this attribute.