I don‘t think it correctly reflects Buddhist teaching, though.
You become a new person moment to moment and even „you“ is not putting it correctly and everything is tied together by cause and effect regardless.
Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the Buddha is only teaching by skillful means. So that quote may be the right thing for a particular addict at a time. In that sense it is true, but not as an absolute truth for everyone always.
Makes me think they have not met a single addict ever. This quote makes absolutely zero sense. Most addicts stay addicts for the rest of their lives. They fight their addiction most days if not every day.
You become a new person moment to moment and even „you“ is not putting it correctly and everything is tied together by cause and effect regardless.
Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the Buddha is only teaching by skillful means. So that quote may be the right thing for a particular addict at a time. In that sense it is true, but not as an absolute truth for everyone always.