Question for all recovering alcholics and ex smokers.

[TheSiege]

which

 

[glen]

different

 

[Canai]

Very different. But smoking (cause I haven't given up the booze yet 😉)

 

[Zolty]

I quit smoking because it made me smell bad and I hacked up phlem all the time. I decided the the pleasure I got out of it did not out weigh the downsides, so I quit. I have been naturally quiting drinking for a few years, my body just doesn't recover as quickly as it used to, as such I went from 3-4 nights out a week to 0-1. I doubt I will stop drinking, probably stop getting drunk at some point though. Hey I am only 24 so I figure sometime in my 40s.


Drinking is much more socially acceptable than smoking so I would say that smoking is far easier to quit.

 

[RichardE]

Wow was harder than both...


Sad I know 🙁

 

[glen]

Yeah, if I see a beer commercial, I am un fazed.

If I see a cigarette add, I am un fazed.

If I see an EverQuest screen shot, or Tribes, I can feel chemical changes in my body.

Seriously.

 

[James Bond]

My dad smoked and drank pretty much his entire life, he was completely addicted to both. He quit smoking probably 10 times over about 15 years, really struggling. One day my mom asked him to stop drinking because it was interfering with other parts of his life, he never had another drink.

 

[Coquito]

My father use to be hard on Newports & other crap while I was growing up. Once he realized he was poisoning his family, he stopped, but picked up drinking real bad. He will eventually drink himself to death because he really can't help himself anymore. He really thinks it's his problem to deal with. He gets angry, fustrated, & even cries if we drink all the orange juice in the house. He blames us for being wasteful, because we should know who really needs it.

I also nominate perscription & non perscription medication. Sleeping pills & painkillers contribute to more family isolation then even alcohol it seems.

 

[krunchykrome]

They kind of went hand in hand. Once I stopped smoking, the drinking stopped shortly after.

 

[mrrman]

never smoked but quit drinking 10 years ago for a better lifestyle, no regrets at all

 

[JRock]

I'm not a quitter 😉 I don't smoke, never have but I will never give up my beer.

 

[Sqube]

Google seems to indicate that the rate of recidivism with smoking is on the level of heroin. That, to me, would tend to indicate that quitting smoking is harder than quitting drinking.

Then again, addiction is a relatively personal phenomenon, and there's no telling how many factors count in what you become addicted to and how hard it is to break said addiction.