I used to get bad blackouts too where I wouldn't remember what happened for a considerable part of the night.
Those days are over now luckily. I drank like crazy in my student years and developed a massive pot belly. Fast forward 5 years later after college and my drinking is much more normal. I drink perhaps one or two nights a week, and in general, not a great deal. Having said that, I have had a smoking problem that has been enabled by drinking: I will not smoke for two weeks, have one drink, and bang, I want a cigeratte.
Long story cut short, I feel like my life could do with stopping drinking completely, thus stopping smoking too. I've had stretches of sobriety before, but always caved in due to a number of reasons. Ultimately, there is always some ones birthday, or some hot girl who wants to go for a drink with you, or a nice bottle or red wine to drink with your family over christmas, or even office parties.
It is a commitment to stop, but I feel I would like to, so I can really feel as good as I can on a day to day basis and get more done and feel more on top of things. Smoking and Alcohol, even though I only drink occasionally seems to be linked to keeping in a rut and feeling stuck.
Those days are over now luckily. I drank like crazy in my student years and developed a massive pot belly. Fast forward 5 years later after college and my drinking is much more normal. I drink perhaps one or two nights a week, and in general, not a great deal. Having said that, I have had a smoking problem that has been enabled by drinking: I will not smoke for two weeks, have one drink, and bang, I want a cigeratte.
Long story cut short, I feel like my life could do with stopping drinking completely, thus stopping smoking too. I've had stretches of sobriety before, but always caved in due to a number of reasons. Ultimately, there is always some ones birthday, or some hot girl who wants to go for a drink with you, or a nice bottle or red wine to drink with your family over christmas, or even office parties.
It is a commitment to stop, but I feel I would like to, so I can really feel as good as I can on a day to day basis and get more done and feel more on top of things. Smoking and Alcohol, even though I only drink occasionally seems to be linked to keeping in a rut and feeling stuck.