Originally Posted by
Forward12 
Guzzling coffee and chain smoking cigs was (and for the most part still is) the gold standard of AA.
I'm old enough to remember those days of blue-haze AA meetings. And I'm still guzzling coffee and chain smoking cigs. I'm not proud of it, I recognize the addictions and the health risks. I still use the term "sober," because I was a big old drunk, and now I don't drink.