I don't know for certain but I expect that if you have never been truly addicted to something, you cannot know how it feels. For me, it is a compulsion beyond my control. If I smoke ONE cigarette, I have to smoke a pack. If i drink even one sip of a beer, it is as if a black hole opens up somewhere in my body that just HAS to be filled. Active alcoholism $crews up my life. That is why I have to be so vigilant in not putting myself in the position where I would take that first drink. Everytime I drink, I suffer the effects of doing so for YEARS. And cigarettes are going to kill me.
Thank you for sharing everybody.