Having quit nicotine, I can say that it's simply a matter of wanting to quit. I do love smoking still, and have a pipe or a cigar roughly every two weeks, but my half-a-tin of 12mg nicotine pouches a day habit is gone.

I miss it, and I didn't want to quit, but it was financially a little silly and that much nicotine causes health effects. You can desire to stop something but also not want to. It seems fair to allow both to be true.

“Just say ‘no.’”

Where have I heard that, before?

In my experience, compulsive people can often be totally unable to quit; no matter how hard they want to.

That’s one reason that I don’t dis fat people (I could stand to lose some weight, myself, and I’m working on it).

Drugs like Ozempic, have been making big differences, here, as they attack that reptile-brain compulsion that makes quitting so difficult.