It wasn’t surprising that what he was doing lead to that result.

It was that it was a slow creep that lead him down the path and sometimes you don’t realize where you’re headed until you have a come-to moment where you take stock of your life.

He's still at it https://www.reddit.com/user/dickfromaccounting

I don't think so. It's more that in many cases, knowing that a behaviour is bad for you is woefully insufficient to make you actually stop doing it.