| Whenever we say that stopping an addiction can be easy, many who have struggled get angry and some take offense. If they have been trying to stop their addiction for months or years and continue to struggle, they look at their experience as a testament to how hard it is. Some have given up hope that they will ever be able to change. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
We didn’t say stopping an addiction IS easy, we said it CAN BE easy. It’s true. The addiction disease theory and the culture it has created in the western world has overcomplicated the problem of habitual, heavy substance use. It’s brought in an entire cavalcade of causes, symptoms, and misinformation that make people feel helpless and hopeless to change, and none of it is true.
In spite of all of this misinformation in our culture today, the good news is most people do change. And, it turns out the less they buy into the addiction disease mythology, the more likely they are to solve their addiction for good. | 
