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> Giusi wrote:
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>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>> Probably true. My experience with addiction was my 25-year smoking
>>>> habit
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I could have used incarceration last January when I quit. It might still
>> be a good idea.
>
>
>> Seems cruel to lock them up and take their smokes away, though.
>
> I thought so too. Although the state did supply them with give-up-smoking
> patches.
>
> OTOH, considering their situation, any problems brought on by smoking
> would seem to be minor next to mental illness.

Except they are on top of the mental illness. I was crazed for a part of
the quitting time. I wanted to throw people under a bus or spit in their
eye. If I were a homicidal maniac, I would have done it. I think I would
have set fire to a nurse, probably. One that smelled of smoke from her
break ciggie.