Yep,it should go on as we are not all AAs here so Singleness of Purpose does not apply on this particular forum. At least the word alcohol is tied in with it unlike a lot of subjects here lately.

Now I also happen to think, like Nicky, that they wasted a lot of money and quite a few rats on this research because addiction to alcohol is quite unlike addiction to tobacco. I think it is generally true, however, as the article states, that most alkies are smokers in general.

I don't know whether this is more true in the UK than in other countries but there is a big drive growing here re tobacco usage. All public buildings are by law smoke-free. At all the meetings I attend I would say that 60% of the people there go out of the room to smoke at the break...less than the article purports.

My personal story is that I could stop smoking through willpower but I could not stop drinking. Being an all-or-nothing type, when I first went into AA - about 8 years ago - I decided to stop smoking and drinking at the same time. I was advised to tackle one problem at a time but thought I could do it. Ego, resolve and delusion got in the way!!! I definitely needed the programme but thought I knew best - bog standard alkie approach then.

Surprise, surprise - I relapsed. But not to nicotine - to alcohol.

I had great motivation to give up smoking and did.

But my alcoholism had progressed to a point that I was personally powerless to do anything about it. That is why only God could help me and He did when I was finally desperate enough to surrender.

interesting DT when this comes up it allways brings to mind the thiq hypothesis which can be googled and i know most of us have read this on varioud links T
here are many studys that have been done in simple language it would apear there could be a similarity in the way alcoholics process alcohol retaining some small part aceltehyde which builds up thiq in the brain of alcoholics and the fact that tobbaco smoke also produces aceltehyde

which makes us something close to heroin addicts riv, but for God sakes don't tell the purist!!

BTW folks, Primary and single are not the same thing.