I'm nicotine addict. I had had at some point "moment of clarity" and I stopped to use nicotine. Almost two years I was free and than I got moment of "disclarity

I'm nicotine addict. I had had at some point "moment of clarity" and I stopped to use nicotine. Almost two years I was free and than I got moment of "disclarity" and now I couldn't find one more "moment of clarity". It is simple to say "you can decide to stop having addiction", but to really decide to stop and to stop you need something more than just a will to stop. If you believe, that decision itself can stop substance abuse, than think about what is the more probable outcome of such a decision: freedom of addiction or failed attempt to stop. I have no statistics, but looking at other nicotine addicts I would say that decision means almost nothing. Maybe in 1 from 20 cases decision to stop leads to remission. One can argue that in 19 cases there was wrong decision, but it is more likely that there are some other causes, and decision is not cause of remission, though essential accompanying factor. Addiction is something you cannot comprehend by just abstractly thinking about it. You need explore it either by trying, or (preferrable) by studying addicts or at least reading articles wrote by scientists who are studying addiction.