Originally Posted by chimblysweep
way to go! stick with it. it ain't easy but it's worth it.
i quit last in 2002. i've been doing well, but i still CRAVE when i'm drinking heavily. i think that'll never go away. you're drinking hard, you want a smoke, it happens.
i think the key is you can't have that "just one" at the bar, cuz that's how the whole thing gets going all over again.
I'm coming up on 20 years since I last quit. I say "last quit" because it took several tries that failed because of the "I'll only smoke when I drink" mindset.
Before long I was a chain-smoking alcoholic.