How Long

[nsd_user663_2507]

So to everyone deep in the quit mode: "How long did the craving last before you completely felt free to even go for a drinking party without a smoke?"

[nsd_user663_1988]

So to everyone deep in the quit mode: "How long did the craving last before you completely felt free to even go for a drinking party without a smoke?"

Drinking was gonna be a toughy for me and was always my downfall on previous quits. Your mind say's 'having just one cigarette won't do any harm' BANG! within a couple of months i was back to smoking full time. I went into this quit saying to myself 'NOT A SINGLE PUFF! I admit that to begin with it was a little hard but going to the pub is so much easier with the smoking ban in effect as there is no-one smoking around you. I have been out quite a few times now, even got quite battered on a few occasions but have never succumbed no matter how drunk I was.

I know what your feeling. It used to be drink in one hand and fag in the other and seems really weird when they're not together.You do get used to it eventually. It's just the harder part of the habit to break.

[nsd_user663_2162]

I, huh- don't crave smoke anymore, really :eek:

Sure, I never drank much alcohol (if at all) to begin with so I just don't suffer the alcohol-cigarette association at all - and that sure helps. But anyway I had lots of other triggers - I did smoke 30 cigarettes a day, after all - that I had to fight, only it's all kinda fading - thanks God! - I mean even the smoke-related thoughts are just occasional and don't bug me at all. I forgot what smoking tastes like and am in no way interested in finding out again!

So dear Yama relax and trust us life is gonna get easier :)

[nsd_user663_2507]

quite honestly DRINKING == SMOKING for me no matter what so I better stay away from it for a while...

I had quite in the past myself and found myself smoking again after having drank a few...

But according to the many people who had quit after having quit for more than 2 to 3 years said to me that they sometimes have smokes after drinking a few and the following day it was like nothing had happened...

I think in overall if you got a good concesus of what you can handle and what you cannot best is stay away from it.

For me until I completely get the smoking feeling or craving or wanting or etc... I will avoid anything tempting me.

[nsd_user663_2485]

Drinking & Smoking

The first time I quit smoking I quit for over 11 years. One evening I had had a few too many drinks and asked the person next to me, who was smoking, for a cigarette. Then I asked for another, then another. Next thing I knew, I was smoking again.

Now, 8 years after that, I've finally quit again.

That said, I must also say that the ban on smoking in public places has made it easier. No one will be sitting next to me having a drink and puffing on a cig. Remember the days when it was considered polite to OFFER a cig? Remember when people smoked everywhere--theaters, restaurants, airplanes, in a cab, at work? Remember when the REEK of cig smoke was everywhere--in people's cars, elevators, everywhere? Remember the piles of smokes in ashtrays, the squashed butts on floors at the tube stations and pub floors?

That's gone now, thankfully, so it's much, much easier than it once was.

So, I agree with Boudee; people are mad to have a few smokes with a drink...in fact they are mad for having a few smokes period. And, I don't see how having a few drinks would make me want to run outside in the cold and puff on a cig. I think I'd rather stay inside where it's warm and enjoy the drink.

Rob W

Quit Oct 18, 2007

[nsd_user663_1988]

Now with me being such a young pup at 29 :P, I don't remember when you could smoke everywhere, but I am old enough to remember when they had smoking carriages on the trains and you were allowed to smoke in cinemas on train stations platforms. It was the total norm.

Now over the course of 20 years there has become less public places that you can actually light up.

The ban in enclosed public places in July was just the nail in the coffin. People were moaning so much about it. Now only 5 months later, I have noticed that most people find it the norm. They don't hesitate to go out in their little groups and puff away, and they no longer moan about it.

I think it's great!

[austinlegro 11 Years Smoke Free]

these people are mad to have a few smokes with a drink, they are playing Russian roulette with them selves

aaaaaahhhh, Russian Roulette. Now there's a habit I had no trouble giving up.

Didn't need no filthy stinking patches either....:rolleyes:

hohoho

(still desperately trying to understand Boudee's signature)

[nsd_user663_1988]

I vaguely remember those days :rolleyes:

Your not THAT much older that me you know!:rolleyes:

Maybe all that Voddie has given you amnesia!:p

[nsd_user663_2454]

I may be odd, but I can drink without craving a ciggy no problem at all. When I smoked and was having a drink, it was with a group of non-smokers. So I either didn't smoke, or snuck outside like a dirty leper. Just before I quit, when I drank it was with my boyfriend - who hated me smoking, so I never smoked around him. My once-strong association between drinking and smoking lessened to the extent that I can have a drink and not even think about cigs!

Which is indeed a great thing given that there have been the odd evening lately where I'd have caved if I hadn't thrown a G&T down my throat instead