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This could be useful for informing addiction recovery within institutionalized individuals, such as soldiers or prisoners, but not within the general public. The addict is unlikely to change their entire life structure to defeat the addiction since they know that would defeat the addiction, and that's not what the addiction wants.

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I think you're right, but for other reasons.

First, most people don't like or can move far away.

Second, if your habits revolve around more abstract stuff than "seeing the office entrance where you smoke every day", you can end up changing some concrete circumstances and end up with the same abstract ones.

That is silly. Most addicts don't have the resources to change their life structure, where would they go? what would they do? how would it be paid for?. It is only the rich who can check to a rehab clinic.

It's a mistake to think that the only people who are addicts are the poor and destitute. There are plenty of addicts, perhaps the majority, who haven't managed to destroy their lives (yet).

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