Originally Posted by
steve-in-kville 
Somewhat related to this, I was told that for as many years as a person was addicted, that was how many tries it would take to quit. Old wives tale?
(Don't mean to hijack this thread...)
Worse. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
One of the scariest things you can read about when learning about drugs and how they work is the failure rates for people who try to quit once they've become addicted.
I also think there's a tonne of people who don't question enough how much and how often they're drinking.