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Beyond Willpower “Science, Therapeutic Alliance and Strategy in the Process of Quitting Smoking — A Conversation with Dr. Colin Mendelsohn”

Each cigarette carries a weight beyond habit: it is living memory, exposed vulnerability, and a daily act of survival. Addressing quitting smoking means unearthing deep layers—biological, emotional, social—that rarely receive the analysis they deserve. It is confronting the point where body and culture merge into a dependence that is not always chosen but almost always condemned. This conversation does not offer formulas or rigid rules. It is an invitation to rethink tobacco use as a complex human phenomenon, where desire and pain, chemistry and cultural narrative, pleasure, shame, and guilt intertwine. A gray area where the physiological dialogues with the symbolic, and every attempt to quit is an act of personal redefinition. It preserves the intimacy of a sincere conversation, unafraid of contradiction, doubt, or uncomfortable lucidity. Here, quitting smoking is not an end, but a beginning: an uncertain yet possible process to reconnect with the body, negotiate desire, and reconcile with a history marked by dependence. Today, tobacco use stands at a crossroads. On one hand, it persists as a habit resistant to decades of policies and campaigns. On the other, more realistic and co

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