Can an addiction to stealing replace an addiction to cigarettes?

Actually addiction to stealing can reinforce your addiction to cigs. Simply because you'll crave for cigs so much that you'll be willing to steal it. But it's also true that one addiction can replace another. Regardless of whether you replace your addiction with a more accepted habit, it's still a whole lot better if you won't replace it at all instead free yourself from any kind of obsession. So the solution to any kind of addiction really is rehabilitation. By proper rehabilitation you learn not to become dependent on anything.