Arnold wrote:
> Anyone managed to give up cigarettes and alcohol and never looked back?
>
> If so, I would be interested to know the techniques you used, coz I am
> struggling with 'will power'!

Giving up both addictions together would be a pretty rough row to hoe,
so choose one at a time. Were it me I'd first tackle the smoking, a
far more harmful/debilitating addiction. Unless you're a full blown
fall-down-in-the-gutter everyday alkie you can easily cut down on
drinking to a more socially acceptible level but not smoking, any level
of smoking at all will eventually kill you, and a more horrible death
you don't want to know about.. and no one who really smokes can ever
just cut down, not for more than an hour.

I smoked for many years, tried every BS method ever devised... only
thing worked was a stern warning from my doctor that if I continued I
wouldn't last two years, and cold turkey (OB food). At various points
in my life I also boozed too heavily (in the military, going through a
nasty divorce, and a few others), but never so heavily that I couldn't
function. It's been many years now since I've had more than a drink or
three, that's it... most times one glass of wine with dinner or a 2ni,
and not every day either. I think the smoking triggers the drinking
much more than the drinking triggers the smoking... when you stop
smoking I think your drinking will taper way off.

Give up the smoking, not tomorrow, right now, I know of what I speak.

Sheldon