Having quit nicotine, I can say that it's simply a matter of wanting to quit. I do love smoking still, and have a pipe or a cigar roughly every two weeks, but my half-a-tin of 12mg nicotine pouches a day habit is gone.

I miss it, and I didn't want to quit, but it was financially a little silly and that much nicotine causes health effects. You can desire to stop something but also not want to. It seems fair to allow both to be true.

“Just say ‘no.’”

Where have I heard that, before?

In my experience, compulsive people can often be totally unable to quit; no matter how hard they want to.

That’s one reason that I don’t dis fat people (I could stand to lose some weight, myself, and I’m working on it).

Drugs like Ozempic, have been making big differences, here, as they attack that reptile-brain compulsion that makes quitting so difficult.

I think its better to say that people can have multiple, competing, desires, especially at different time scales. Nothing about the human condition as I can understand it makes this unreasonable, since I don't subscribe really to the idea that people really are a singular, coherent, entity.

I would buy 3 at that price, good grief.

The universe being a giant toilet in the process of flushing is delightfully Doug Adams inspired.

It's that constant sucking sound ...

This just transported me to the past, shopping with my mom... The difference in tone is sharp vs. e.g. modern Wal-mart

Thanks, appreciate being called a garbage person. Have you considered having empathy for people with different views than you?

> Have you considered having empathy for people with different views than you?

This is an interesting response in a thread defending an abortion ban.

Have they turned those squishy-sounding different views into horrifically inhumane absolute laws that affect every female person in the state, passing through the state, or considering taking a job (or keeping an existing job) in the state?

> Have you considered having empathy for people with different views than you?

No. On this topic I don't give a damn about people who have the wrong point of view.

Not a dupe, previous post from the same site here: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38685782), talking about an adjacent topic.

That was an error in HN's dupe detector (a failure case of the software). Fixed now.