Good answer! Thanks for the links.

In all my days of working at a drug treatment facility AND in all my days of seeing people who have smoked weed for many years have to quit (BTW - those two eras in my life never overlapped in any way), never have I seen anyone have any problems quitting. Sure, they will try to get around having to quit or miss it after they quit, but when it comes right down to it and they have to for an important urine test, they do it with ease. I remember when I quit, it was a heck of a lot easier than dieting. It was like...let me find a good comparable situation in my life...it was like giving up my daily morning routine of getting a Frappucino in the morning on my way to work. I loved those things when they first came out. Anyway, I had to cut out caffiene and had to quit those. Yeah, it was disappoitning for a couple of days, but that was about the extent of it. Meanwhile, I have smoked cigarettes for ten years and have had four very determined tries at quitting and still can't.

It's interesting to hear you talk about people having breakdowns from psychological addictions. I know that some people can get addicted to ANYTHING! I've seen a guy addicted to Benadryl for it's sedating effect. I've also seen a lady addicted to Tylenol, not the PM type, just Tylenol as this was before the PM formulation came out. She believed in her mind that she couldn't live without it and would get pains, which I am sure were in her head, when she didn't get her Tylenol, yet she has no history of physical trauma and all medical tests were negative. Maybe she had fibromyalgia (as this was before fibromyalgia became known to be real and not just in your head) or maybe she was just a highly addictive personality, who knows!

I think the moral of the story here is everything in moderation and the definition of an addiction is to obsess over something. If you find yourself obsessed over something, ANYTHING, it's time to stop it and do something different.

I smoked every day for over six years and quit abruptly, cold turkey, and had no problems at all. No irritability. No sleeplessness. No anxiety. I did have loss of appetite, but, frankly, at the time I needed to lose some weight from all the weight I had gained from munching out. LOL!

I'm not saying your answer is wrong. It effects different people different ways, I guess. Kind of like when they give speed to ADD (attention deficit disorder) kids and it helps them focus while, if you give it to a normal person, it wires them. I guess we are just all different.