--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not a smoker or former > smoker >
That much is clear from your list of alternative activities to smoking. Tueschat - I've quit a couple of times, once for two years and then, after falling off the wagon, I quit again this new year's and haven't smoked since. You have to really WANT to quit. It's sheer force of will. Nothing else will do it. And when you really WANT to quit, you will avoid situations in which you want to smoke, which it sounds like for you means drinking. So yeah, you might have to quit drinking, at least for awhile. Which totally sucks, but if you're serious about quitting, you really will have to alter your trigger behaviors. I, for one, quit campaign work because the stress drove me to smoking or wanting a smoke basically all the time. That said, I think smoking is a fantastic hobby. If I was sure I'd get hit by a bus and killed at 60, I would happily have kept it up.
