What you say is true but at the same time, we are all responsible for ourselves, regardless of the help that has been offered to us. But I don't feel sorry for addicts. That includes myself who has been a nicotine addict and/or any other "addictive" behaviors I may have had in the past. I understand very well how hard addiction can be rather it be to cigs, alcohol, hardcore drugs, gambling, ect. Eventually you either wake up and change or destroy yourself with your addiction, and by doing so often do a lot of damage to those who care about you. There is nothing to pity in my book, at all. Addiction sucks. It can change us at our very core but in the end, we still have to be the ones to beat it. We have to realize that we are destroying ourselves. Nobody ever showed me empathy for my smoking habit. I took a lot of crap as a smoker. Maybe it was tough love in part. Maybe it was utter disgust in the habit. But it helped changed my mind in what I was doing.
