You don't have answer this but I have to ask, did you find some other less severe addiction to cope - like marijuana for example? I ask because, well, your username.
I would definitely consider myself being 'addicted' in that sense when I smoked pot.
I didn't get any joy out of recreational activities I was engaging in unless I was high first. I always felt like like the buzz wasn't as good as it could have been if I were high.
A few months after quitting that went away though.
Weed also made me lazy and paranoid after a while, so it was actively damaging to me.
I don't smoke anymore.