What's the easiest addiction to kick? The hardest?

The hardest addiction to kick is the one the addict does not want to truly kick. All addiction is a disease of the brain and each manifestation of addiction will be different, one person will be addicted to heroin.. and that will be the hardest to kick for them, another person will be addicted to nicotine and that will be the hardest to kick for them, another person will be addicted to alcohol and that will be the hardest to kick for them, still yet another person will be addicted to sex or weed or work or any destructive behavior that despite negative and sometimes completely disastrous consequences continues to be engaged in by the addict... to each addict this behavior will be the hardest to kick and likely the most difficult thing they do in their entire life. Now which behaviors or substances will have the harshest mental and/or physical side effects to stopping?

That is a question that can be answered in a more generalized sense.. science tells us that alcohol will actually kill the addict as they go through the withdrawal symptoms. (nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000... 1) Other drugs such as heroin or cocaine or prescription drugs or crystal methamphetamine etc. Etc. Will be nasty to kick and the physical and/or mental withdrawal symptoms will suck to the worst level of suck imaginable but they will not likely kill an otherwise healthy person (heroin might but not likely) experiencing the withdrawal symptoms from them.

Nicotine will present an extremely difficult challenge to the addict in stopping but stopping smoking does not have killer withdrawal symptoms.. they suck but they will not kill a person. Behavioral addicts like, sex ,work, gambling, eating, exercise addicts etc etc.Will have extreme difficulty stopping the addictive behavior but the withdrawals will not likely kill them. All of these addictions are dangerous and every addiction should be treated as the progressive and deadly disease it is but the withdrawals are not deadly here.

Addiction will effect every addict in the same way.. they will not have an easy time stopping and stopping on their own will be next to impossible. Whatever each addict is addicted to is the hardest addiction to kick. Only a small percentage of addicts ever recover the disease, addiction is too deadly a disease and must be treated for the rest of the addicts life and not one addiction could be considered easy to kick.

In my opinion that depends on the person. If you're talking about actual 'hard' drugs...street drugs....everyone picks their own poison, the one that they favor the most. For me Weed was the hardest drug to kick, and surprisingly enough meth was the easiest to kick.

Most people it seems it would be the other way around. I was 18 when I kicked the stuff, and I had no problems whatsoever. My doctors were even surprised on that one.

But two years later and I haven't touched meth and I hardly ever think about it. I think what makes meth difficult, is once you smoke it, you gain a sense of smell for it. In my opinion if you had to associate one word with the smell of meth it would be 'numb' and I luckily enough live across the street from a meth lab so if I go outside for a cigarette or to get in my car and take off, I smell it.

That is the 2nd hardest temptation I have faced to date, weed being the most difficult to resist since it's the easiest to get, majority of people do it, it's not considered as big of a deal as the rest, and so on. I'll stop know before I ramble too much! Good questions, I'm interested to see what others say @tealmyster.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.