> rather than just extra addictive extra effective caffeine

That is a severe understatement. Nicotine is consistently ranked as one of the most addictive drugs, near cocaine and heroin.

Only about 6% nicotine users manage to quit every year.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-n...

▲ astura 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It might be addicting, but it's still overcomable, since 2002 there's more former smokers in the US than active smokers. 66% of all Americans who have ever smoked have successfully quit.

▲ simoncion 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You:

  Only about 6% nicotine users manage to quit every year.

Your linked article:

  Yet, only about 6 percent of smokers are able to quit in a given year.

Other than when it talks about prescription smoking cessation tools, the article does not mention anything other than tobacco smokers. The last paragraph of the article actually discusses the observation that the ritual of smoking often provides substantial behavioral reinforcement to the smoker who is attempting to quit smoking.

I also note that I was able to quit nicotine cold-turkey after smoking cigarettes for two years. I've never been able to quit caffeine... and -although it is notably shorter in duration- caffeine withdrawal is WAY worse than nicotine withdrawal.

	▲	huurtehoog 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for checking the source. Celebrating that is more important than me being right so kudos. If we're going by anecdote I know way more people who quit caffeine than nicotine.