Be careful mate. I'm an expat with a lot of French friends, so I smoked socially for ten years. Could never imagine how someone could smoke all day, as it felt

Be careful mate. I'm an expat with a lot of French friends, so I smoked socially for ten years. Could never imagine how someone could smoke all day, as it felt disgusting, but a few cigarettes on a night out once a week was nice. Like I said, did that for ten years. So did my girlfriend. Then she tried vaping and I tried snus. Both addicted. 2 years in, on and off. The amount of wasted time and effort spent on, and irritability from, trying to quit, has been such a waste. Addictions are weird. Nicotine is hell to quit, but it's mostly mental. I build it up in my head to be some impossible thing, but it's really not. Cigarettes seem to have a grip on people far more insidious than snus or vaping, though. The real reason it's hard to stay off is the modern world we choose to live in. Full of stressors and always just a minute or click away from relapsing. Sometimes I think about how bad it would be to be an alcoholic. You wouldn't even be able to turn on the TV and relax without a beer commercial ruining your mindset. You leave your house and see a billboard. You get fed up, strength depleted, and walk in the woods to get away from all the reminders to drink. You see a spent can...