Originally Posted by
soberlicious 
If they did, fewer people would successfully quit. Learned helplessness has not yet been popularized in relation to quitting smoking. Thank goodness.
When I was drinking, I didn't have to learn to be helpless, I was helpless. I couldn't stop drinking. I could drink for 2-3 days straight and not even know what happened to me or what I had done or where I had been. When I was on a binge, my mind was totally centered on getting and obtaining alcohol and anybody in my way got run over.
My drinking and drug use had nothing to do with my unresolved issues, I simply could not stop when it was in my system.