These so-called experts make the statement as if they are revealing some profound insight into the mysteries of nicotine addiction. The statement is m meaningless. Of course you won’t stop unless you really want to. Why would you even make the attempt if you didn’t want to quit?
The second most common and equally ridiculous platitude is:
I can understand why smoking is commonly regarded as a habit. After all, there appears to be no other logical explanation. But are habits difficult to break? As an Englishman, all my life I’ve been in the habit of driving on the left side of the road. This causes some considerable inconvenience to Americans or Continentals who visit our Islands. However, they are fortunate in that the vast majority of countries that they visit also drive on the right and they are not inconvenienced. The people that are most inconvenienced by their obsession to drive on the left are the people who do so. Every time I visit the Continent or the States I’m forced to break the habit. Inconvenient it may be, but difficult it is not. I immediately break the lifetime’s habit and when I return to England, I find it just as easy to return to the left. The truth is that we make and break habits every day of our lives.
The only reason why we believe habits are difficult to break is because the most common ‘habit‘ that we would all really love to break is the smoking `habit‘, and because most of us find it so difficult or even impossible to break it, we assume that habits are difficult to break. Now with a habit that kills us and costs us a fortune, when all we have to do to break it is to stop lighting cigarettes, why do we find it so difficult?
