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So let's say there's a person whose addicted to nicotine. Then, they bond with a spren and get access to stormlight healing. Like Teft, this person's addiction has become a part of his spiritual identity, so it can't be healed by stormlight.

If this person smoked and then sucked in stormlight, would the stormlight remove the nicotine like it removed alcohol from Shallan?

If it did wipe away the nicotine, would the surgebinder feel withdrawal symptoms, or would the stormlight prevent those symptoms?

If stormlight didn't heal the withdrawal symptoms, what would happen if the surgebinder was a heroin addict, where the withdrawal symptoms could kill them? Would the stormlight actually cause the surgebinder to die? Or would it keep the surgebinder from dying, but also not heal the withdrawal symptoms, keeping them on the verge of death?

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21 minutes ago, Gray to said:

If this person smoked and then sucked in stormlight, would the stormlight remove the nicotine like it removed alcohol from Shallan?

Yes.

21 minutes ago, Gray to said:

If it did wipe away the nicotine, would the surgebinder feel withdrawal symptoms, or would the stormlight prevent those symptoms?

Shallan can get rid of a hang over.

21 minutes ago, Gray to said:

If stormlight didn't heal the withdrawal symptoms, what would happen if the surgebinder was a heroin addict, where the withdrawal symptoms could kill them? Would the stormlight actually cause the surgebinder to die? Or would it keep the surgebinder from dying, but also not heal the withdrawal symptoms, keeping them on the verge of death?

The withdrawal symptoms could be avoided but the craving would still be there.

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I think it might have to do with how they view themselves. If they view the pain of withdrawal as something that they deserved to suffer from, Stormlight may not heal the symptoms. Perhaps Stormlight will prevent it from killing the Radiant, but they will still feel the pain.

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11 hours ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

The withdrawal symptoms could be avoided but the craving would still be there.

This is the key, it would be able to heal the physical fallout of the withdrawal, but none of the psychological dependence which can often manifest as pain in it's own right, depending on the nature and severity of the drug.

9 hours ago, SirWolfe said:

I think it might have to do with how they view themselves. If they view the pain of withdrawal as something that they deserved to suffer from, Stormlight may not heal the symptoms. Perhaps Stormlight will prevent it from killing the Radiant, but they will still feel the pain.

That's fair, though at that point it feels like the psychological fallout being reinforced by the Stormlight, manifesting a pain almost entirely because the person feels that they should have pain.  Not sure where Im going with that, but it's curious

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10 hours ago, SirWolfe said:

I think it might have to do with how they view themselves. If they view the pain of withdrawal as something that they deserved to suffer from, Stormlight may not heal the symptoms. Perhaps Stormlight will prevent it from killing the Radiant, but they will still feel the pain.

Even if they feel deserving the actual toxins that cause the pain will be quickly removed so the pain will quickly go away.

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