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Old 02-09-2010, 05:59 AM
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Tazman53
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Welcome to SR darkpen, lots of good people here for support.

Darkpen what you have described in your drinking history is the progression of alcoholism, very similar to my progression at your age, but I was not nearly ready to stop at that point, glad to hear you are wiser then I was.

I too was a smoker, when I finally broke down and saw a doctor who specialized in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism he put me into medical detox, I asked him if then would be a good time to quit smoking as well? He told me that I really needed to tackle one addiction at a time, he suggested that I not even try to quit smoking until I was solid in my recovery from my alcoholism.

Well I actually listened to him!!! LOL I quit smoking exactly one year after I began my recovery, it was really hard, but I used the same steps I had used in AA to overcome my drinking to quit smoking.

darkpen that is my experience, I know a few people in AA who quit smoking at the same time they quit drinking, but most of them quit drinking first and then quit smoking later.
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