HSC. Officially the pothead school. Just kidding.
On a serious note, depression is a really bad thing. And if you feel like you're starting to feel depressed more than normally, try to recognize when you should seek help. I don't know if it's to that point yet, but if you feel like you are unable to quit on your own and feel like its pulling you farther down a path you don't want to go, seek help.
I had a psychological dependence on sleeping pills for most of my teenage years. I was first prescribed them to help me sleep, and after years of taking them I just thought to myself that I needed them in order to sleep. Whenever I did not take them for a day or two I swore to myself that I couldn't sleep and usually pulled an all nighter at those times. However, it was just until last semester (well winter break) that I realized that I did not need them and that I felt that I needed them to feel a certain way (sleepy or relaxed)... in reality it was all psychological, in that I took the opportunity during winter break to finally settle once and for all whether it was all in my head or not. I'm doing fine now, it just takes me an hour or two to fall sleep (unless I'm exhausted or have had alcohol
) instead of popping a pill and passing out into sleep.
Anyways, you've always been a nice guy to me and I'll miss having someone on these forums who's from VA and relatively close to me in vicinity, even though I don't know you IRL. =\