Originally Posted by
Mentium 
Given that this area of the forum is about secular approaches to stopping and given that I have a secular view of the world, I wonder what people here feel about the idea of simply stopping and quitting because one has simply had enough of the whole damned thing
There are probably people that do that all the time, we just don't always hear from them. In Smart recovery its called a "crystallization of discontent" and is probably the biggest motivator there is, I guess its kind of like living the decision instead of chasing it.