From personal experience, I don't find nicotine to be addictive. My example: Prior to college, I never took a drag off anything. In college, during a mode of self-destruction, I took up smoking a pack of cigarettes a day (I know, WHAT A REBEL!! ;). That lasted for two months until I noticed my once bright white teeth turning a faint shade of yellow. I immediately gave up cigarettes cold-turkey with no withdrawal effects whatsoever. While smoking, I didn't "crave" cigarettes, it was just a thing to do. I think the whole mystique with cigarettes and their "addictiveness" is a combination of different factors, pick and choose from the following; 1) oral fixation 2) an alternative to nervousness and figgitting/figiting 3) repetetive stress disorder and 4)not for nothing, but it does still look kind of cool/gives someone the feeling that they look like James Dean while smoking :) That's just my opinion/observation. If I had to give cigars up tomorrow, I'd do so pretty easily, but why would I?