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>> cybercat wrote:
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>>> Probably true. My experience with addiction was my 25-year smoking habit
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>> My wife works at a state psych hospital the "cares" for people who have
>> done the worst and most violent things imaginable. The state passed a law
>> that would require the patients to give up smoking. I thought that the
>> switchover might have some bad outcomes given that it's one of their few
>> allowed indulgences but everything went smoothly. It seems that in a
>> controlled environment, it's not too difficult to give up certain
>> addictions and reach 100% compliance.
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> I could have used incarceration last January when I quit.

I really, really know what you mean.


It might still be
> a good idea. Seems cruel to lock them up and take their smokes away,
> though.

Yeah, that's the thing. They literally couldn't GET smokes. The test is
quitting when you can get them. And it probably helped that the doctors
could adjust their medicines, too, to addres some of the withdrawal
symptoms.