Can't speak for the OP but having watched family deal with addictions before, my answer to that question whenever it came up became "So what?". A dependency on

Can't speak for the OP but having watched family deal with addictions before, my answer to that question whenever it came up became "So what?". A dependency on something might be bad an and of itself, but usually the real reason why an addiction is bad is because of the negative effects it has on your life beyond just being dependent on the vice. If someone went from a dependency on alcohol to a dependency on coffee, no one would blink an eye because coffee's other problems aren't nearly as bad. In my opinion, anything that's even a little less bad than whatever addiction you're trying to break is a step in the right direction. You can worry about not having an addiction at all later when just having an addiction is the worst thing you're dealing with.