Should quitting alcohol be so different from quitting smoking? That's a good question. Lets look at the two substances and compare them. Have you ever known anybody who smoked so much that they didn't remember what they did the night before, smoked a ciggarette and killed someone in a car accident, lost their children because they couldn't stop smoking, smoked a ciggy and attacked someone in a in a violent rage, or tried to kill themself after smoking a ciggarette? Well if you have, your're one a in a millon.
Quitting alcohol and quitting drinking are not one in the same because they're two different animals. The structure and the function of the brain changes as a result of drinking. Doing this repeatedly makes some of these changes permanent. You drink enough alcohol and your body will become physically dependent on it. Without it you could die. Never heard of anyone dying from not smoking a ciggarette.
Is quitting smoking difficult, hell yeah.....so is quitting coffee, but I don't see us on a site talking about how coffee is ruining our lives.