I quite for 3 months then crumbled this week Rivalino - we're(alkies) definitely over-represented aren't we? Ah well, I'll let it go sooner or later

P

The same thing is heard here in the U.S. For good reason.

Detoxing from alcohol is stressful enough. To add more stress by stopping nicotine at the same time is setting the alcoholic up for relapse of both. It's common sense.

Most alcoholics who sober up eventually quit nicotine down the road anyway.

I've never heard or seen anybody who relapsed on alcohol because they continued smoking. I've also never read anything to that effect.

Sorry rivalino, we'll have to agree to disagree.

As I said g8fi2b not my opinion here but an article in an online magazine
ABOUT.COM ALCOHOLISM
I to have never heard anyone say they relapsed because of continueing with nicotine but how would they know Thats why sciantists do research isnt it

I know there's a fad here in the UK health system to encourage people to change everything at once, not convinced that would of been good advice for me!

Ah well, opinions like a-holes like they say - everyone has them! Some people get them published in scientific journals he he :))

P

I'm grateful I didnt have an issue with nicotene. I know many of us come in with dual addictions. I'm fortunate in that when I treated my alcoholism with the 12 steps; my other "ism" went away too......

As a girl, I did have an eating disorder and when I drank, even as an adult, it would sometimes rear its ugly head. Even when I didnt act on it, the cravings were an issue.

When I got into recovery, it too went away. I occasionally get a craving to indulge in self destructive behaviour but without booze to lower my inhibitions, and to basically tell me "to hell with it go for it" its not a problem.

I had to quit the alcohol first. Then I stopped smoking at my one year anniversary from drinking. Smoking was so important back then (we could still smoke at most meetings!!!), so it was part of the social aspect of AA for me (alot like the social aspect of my hanging at bars and drinking and smoking). I have to say, God graced me not having the desire to drink any more, but man would I like to have a smoke every once in a while!

For the sake of my children, I am so glad I quit though!

JonW.

Makes me sad when I see someone who is sober getting sick from smoking. I want you all to be healthy 100%!

Quit smoking-gotta say that no matter if you stay sober, cigs will getcha in the end. Or make your life really less enjoyable.

xo

After more then one year sobriety I'm still unable to stop smoking. I keep praying, though. I have no problem with alcohol because of smoking. I try not to feel bad about it, but the truth is that I do, fits nicely into my depressive, addictive nature. Must work on it. Powerless over smoking! Admitting it. Do something about it. It would help me to feel better about myself. Oh the list of the positive things of stopping smoking is long....
Well, I'll let it go sooner or later , as the others say. At least I have the hope.
I don't think that nicotine increases the craving for alcohol. Know people with years and years of sobriety still smoking. Also know people who managed to give it up soon after giving up alcohol.

We're not doing ourselves any favours delaying giving up the smokes for any reason. I didn't have them during detox because I detoxed in hospital and smoking wasn't an option. When I went from detox to rehab is when I picked them up again because everyone else was smoking so the addiction kicked in again. I continued smoking for another year, afterall, the excuse I was giving up drinking was a good one yeah. A year later I got the wake up call when my little girl watched an ad on tellie which showed a Mum dying from smoking. She looked at me and said "Mum I don't want you to die". And I never wanted a cigarette again. As G always say's, the want has to be more than the need. Tis true.

I quit smoking a few years ago and I've been sober for 4 months. It was really hard to quit while I was still drinking but I managed to do it somehow. I was so sick of having all these habits control me. I just up and decided it was time to quit and never looked back. I really do not think I could have done both at the same time.

Thank God someone brought this up. Yes ,reserch is showing that addressing tobacco cessation in early recovery actually helps. Of course when one is addicted to two sunstones the two get linked and become part of the drug taking ritual. The last three deaths in our local AA were from tobacco, not alcohol.

There was a program on Sirius XM. A guy with 25+ years of recovery (from Alcohol and drugs) relayed the addictions that are out there

Alcohol
Drugs
Nicotene
Sex
Food
Gambling
Hoarding

Walk out the door and go to McDonalds on a given day. Lots of pain being medicated

Why doesn't anyone suggest that it's too stressful in rarely recovery to give up pot?

Donttread-- that is a very good point. I have heard people here say not to quit cigarettes when they quit drinking because it is too much to handle at one, but I have never heard anyone suggest that it is okay to keep smoking pot.

If you are going to commit to yourself to stop drinking poison, why not make the commitment to stop inhaling poison at the same time?

Nicotine is deadly. The sooner you quit smoking the better.

I hear you Dt I smoked reefer my first 6 months, still got hooked into AA ,cause I loved to read and be around other people! But honest to God smoking weed without having Alcohol as a buffer (depressant) about freaked me out ,on more than one occasion, then when I was freaked out enough I was ready! And already had a boat load of comrades in AA too....

Interesting I've found though in the amount of things killing you others than stimulants though . Tip of the iceberg the poison avoidance to those things to (coping mechanisms) does to a human soul as you carry on in a status Quo sort of way of dealing with your inner life:(
Billy