That's really not the case. Nicotine is highly physically addictive. "Habits" are involved in the way the mind links itself to the addictive substances and the effect of consuming them. My wife quit smoking 15 years ago, and walking in the woods still gives her near-uncontrollable urges to light a cigarette. Because she and I camped a couple time the first year of our relationship and she smoked a cigarette on a hiking trail. That's not habit-related. Having a cigarette was a more formative and powerful influencing memory to her than basically anything else in her life.
Being allowed cigar breaks during work also encourages use, since it’s a “free pause”
That's just anti-smoker bullshit. Honestly, if you work at a job where you need to smoke to get a break, you should be finding another job anyway. Let's just stick to hating the drug instead of the smokers.
That's really not the case. Nicotine is highly physically addictive. "Habits" are involved in the way the mind links itself to the addictive substances and the effect of consuming them. My wife quit smoking 15 years ago, and walking in the woods still gives her near-uncontrollable urges to light a cigarette. Because she and I camped a couple time the first year of our relationship and she smoked a cigarette on a hiking trail. That's not habit-related. Having a cigarette was a more formative and powerful influencing memory to her than basically anything else in her life.
That's just anti-smoker bullshit. Honestly, if you work at a job where you need to smoke to get a break, you should be finding another job anyway. Let's just stick to hating the drug instead of the smokers.