Originally Posted by
imaquitter 
Everybody can stop drinking for a while but most of them go crazy when told to put out the cigs so I'll just have to build it up more to do that.
Ever notice that smokers don't really "go crazy" when they are on an inter-continental plane ride, even though they can't smoke, until the captain announces that they are about to land, and they start anticipating that next cigarette outside the terminal? Most smokers smoke about once every hour, certainly once every three hours, but even on a ten or twelve hour plane ride, they are just fine as long as the plane is in the air, when their Beast knows it can't and won't be having any cigarettes.
As soon as it gets close to landing time, though, the Beast starts salivating, and they start getting antsy. This is because it takes the anticipation of gratification of desire to cause 'cravings'. If you come down on the Beast like a ton of bricks, with a solid Big Plan, and you know that you absolutely won't be having any cigarettes, then you won't have to worry about the anticipation of gratifying that desire. Picture putting the Beast on a plane ride that never lands and you'll get the idea.