Addiction is a habit. Habits are stimulus-response patterns. If you have had any given habit for some time, when you decide to stop, your mind will keep reminding you to engage in a certain conditioned response whenever you are triggered or exposed to certain stimuli. But just because, your mind reminds you that you used to do this or that in this or that situation, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are powerless to avoid doing this or that, once triggered
It's a disease. A Disease!!! Not a habit! How can you be in control of a disease?!
The body documents what the mind does and the fact of this physiological signature is not a disease but a reality of our corporeal psychosomatic organization.