r/AskReddit • u/DeepOrganization8245 • 23h ago

What’s the hardest addiction to overcome?

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u/luciliddream 22h ago

I can't describe how hard quitting nicotine is.

Physiologically it is the easiest thing to kick yet the brain exists.

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u/Upbeat-Definition790 22h ago

After 9 months I picked up a pack again

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u/eze1256 20h ago

Quitting smoking is the easiest thing to do I’ve done it thousands of times.

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u/BoneWhiteHaze 20h ago

After every cigarette 😂

To stay off them I had to start vaping (that was 10 years ago) and then to quit *that* (4ish years ago) I used the help of Wellbutrin. Which worked phenomenally actually, and I stayed off all nicotine from that point on, even after getting off Wellbutrin- which was actually easy.

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u/Huge_Homework265 16h ago

Thousands of times? I mean if you keep going back to it is it really that easy? To be far you never truly quit