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A lot of interesting points...
Frankly, I believe addiction is a mental thing more than most people are willing to say. I drink and come from a vast line of alcoholics. But I do not drink often, and I do not need to drink, ever. I ENJOY drinking now and then, with friends or at the club or over dinner. I smoke (cigars and hookah) and enjoy it. I probably light up the hookah once or twice a week. Smoke cigars with a slightly less frequency. I enjoy them now and then. I do not need them (obviously, I'm without alcohol or much tobacco here in the 'stan), despite coming from a large family of addicted smokers, the older of which seem to invariably die of lung cancer. So, addiction is in my family, and probably in my genes. Why am I safe? My only addiction is NOT being addicted. Addiction, to me, is a weakness. If you cannot live without some substance, than your life has gone awry. Hell, I was playing World of Warcraft too much and decided to stop. Just not worth it.
so, the moral of my story is this. If you want to smoke weed, sweet. Good for you! If you want to smoke weed and don't care about your SO and s/he leaves you, sweet... you didn't care. If you care about something, and it requires you to stop something else, you have to decide what's more important to you. If you can objectively make that decision, than you are on the right path for you. If you cannot, then there are issues that you really need to look into.
Also, quitting doesn't mean forever. It means quitting. If you CHOOSE to take something back up, it doesn't forego the previous quitting. It's that way with anything else. Why do people assume vices are so vastly different?
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