There are a range of choices and lifestyles available to everyone. Habits and addictions, and choices play a role in that. Many people die from issues related

There are a range of choices and lifestyles available to everyone. Habits and addictions, and choices play a role in that. Many people die from issues related to their habits and addictions. But I do not think it makes sense demand a product or medical intervention as a solution to all of them. Many harmful habits or addictions are best tackled with planning, decision making, and human effort. I think a good litmus test for whether something can reasonably require medical intervention is the danger to your health from quitting. It makes sense to intervene for someone going through alcohol withdrawal, because they can be injured from it. It does not make sense for e-cigs, because if someone actually desires to stop, there isn't anything threatening them except their habit. What would the outcome be, if there was a product to reduce the effort of quitting nicotine? It would simply improve nicotine itself, by removing the biggest reason to avoid it. We'd end up with people habitually taking two drugs, nicotine and the 'quitting drug'.