How long does it take to get rid of an addiction completly? So let's say you were a smoker, when could you smoke again with full control?

You will nevery fully overcome addiction. I know someone 14 years clean from heroin and it still haunts them, i know it always will, they will always crave the feeling, yet numbness.

I'm clean from cutting for 6 years, but it still crosses my mind everytime i get angry.

My mother tried quitting smoking for most her life, but she always gives in.

Someone else i know smoked, quit for about a year, was offered a cigarette, said yes, and then was hooked again.

Addiction can get easier, but it's always going to be there. No matter what the addiction may be. When someone thinks they overcame the addiction and then they finally act on it again in the mindset that they can control it this time, that's usually just the addict trying to trick their brain into telling it it's okay, you're not addicted, just so we don't feel the guilt.

Ridding of an addiction includes not doing it again. Although trying to control the urge, ie, the urge to smoke, alternatives of smoking includes using nicotine patches and nicotine gums to reduce the ‘need’.

Never

For most people, never. the body does not forget the chemical cascade and the positive feedback that results. You introduce the addictive substance, and the body falls into its long training and proceeds to process the chemical(s) as if you had never stopped. There are possible ways to retrain the mind-body system so that the individual learns to associate negative consequences and reactions to the substance(s), but that requires a lot of work and the results are uncertain, and (of course) require exposure to the substance while attempting the retraining.

If you look at many ex-smokers, as an example, they address the problem by convincing themselves that cigarettes are repulsive and disgusting and avoid ever getting to the point of smoking one. they preempt the cycle, disrupt it before it starts. That is a form of training. It does not address the chemical response that would happen if exposed to the substance.

Never.

Hi no sorry it takes over again with most people.

You really cant. Thats how addiction works. Its possible to teach a point where youre no longer physically dependant on the substance, and thst varies hugely depends on the petson, the level of use, and the substance, but mentally, any time you reuse, theres the potential for a relapse, so once youve been addicted, there will never be a time you can safely return to the habit

never

You can't that's the whole point, addiction is FOREVER

Define control at a neurobiological level