So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

Here is the short story long.. One version is this article, another version is that poptarts and sugar cereal is the gateway to state dependent memory. Having sugar rushes and lows feel cozy for people and they replicate it with the cigs booze and drugs. It does go back to human connection, but the childhood human connection of cinnamon rolls and donuts are not helpful later on.