Addiction is mostly a choice

Addiction is such a thing that can be enough to destroy the life of a person as well as the family. When someone in the family is addicted, it creates impacts on other family members, such as quarrels, and disturbs the peace of the family. The word "addiction" can have a positive perspective, like the addiction of reading books, but from a general perspective, it is mostly used as a negative word. When we hear about addiction, the thoughts of drugs, smoking, marijuana, and other things come to our minds because those are the very common things that are used frequently by addicted people, depending on their preference.

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Those kinds of addicted people are considered evil people in our society, and everyone tries to keep a distance from them for safety and security purposes. Even if it is not good for the human body, people still consume it. It says that an addicted person cannot leave the habit easily, even if they want to. We can take smoking as an example. I have seen many chain smokers, and they also know that it is harmful for them, and some of them even said they want to quit the habit, but they cannot think about their day without consuming it. One question comes to mind: is addiction a choice or a disease? There is no correct answer for it. I believe that for some people it's a choice, and for some people it's a disease. Let me explain why I think so.

As I said about smoking, I am going to explain it with the same example. Based on my observation, most people start smoking because of curiosity or the influence of friends. That's why it's better to have good friends rather than keep friends who have bad habits like that. At the beginning, it happens because of curiosity, but it should have ended after trying it. Unfortunately, such a thing happens in rare cases. From time to time, they start to consume more cigarettes; it's just a matter of time before they become chain smokers. I believe that none of them were little kids who don't understand anything. They have the ability to understand the certain risk of smoking and then know the side effects of it very well. So when they smoke after figuring out their curiosity, it's fully their own decision, and it's their choice.

Some people don't consume it after the curiosity, but certain life incidents (painful) may trigger them, and they start consuming cigarettes again, and whenever they are in an obstacle, they repeat the same thing, and they make it a habit over time. Whatever the situation, smoking is their own choice, and there is no way to say that it's a disease in that case. So starting to smoke is the choice for sure.

People change over time, and it is not surprising if a smoker wants to give up smoking and try to live a healthy life. At least I have seen a few people who intended to quit smoking, and they had some valid reasons for doing so. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to stop smoking immediately. It takes time. Some people leave smoking for one or two days and then return again, as they feel they need to smoke; otherwise, they cannot continue any other activities, and they cannot focus on any work. That's actually true because they are used to smoking, and their bodies cannot accept the sudden change, at least for most people. They are determined to leave it, but because of the old habit, they cannot stop it immediately, and for them, it is indeed a disease, and diseases take time to recover from. One person needs to reduce smoking little by little, and after that, they should consider quitting it completely. That's the way they can come out of it, but it's not as easy as it seems, as they were addicted to it. But I believe that if anyone is determined to leave addiction, then they can make it possible, even if it takes time.

Observing many cases, I came to the conclusion that for most people, addiction is a choice, and they don't consider changing themselves, and only for a few people is it a disease, those who want to change their bad habit as well as the addiction.