Is it normal to want nicotine every time i drink alcohol

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My last cigarette was more than 4 months ago. It started when I was 17 and drunk at a festival, and it took a 'quitting' period of about a year and a half after that to stop buying cigarettes. Nowadays, I have zero cravings for cigarettes in ordinary life, but when I get drunk I remenisce about how relaxing smoking and nicotine felt.

Maybe because my first ever cigarettes were smoked when drunk, drinking now triggers that association. There is a packet of nicotine gum in the corner of my room, and whilst quitting I never bothered with the stuff because it causes a scratchy throat. Would it be so bad to get a little nicotine that way, or would even that count as me slipping back into my old ways?

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  • Karmasbitch
    10 years ago

    Very normal, alcohol and smokes go good together.

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  • kelili
    10 years ago

    I wish I could stop. I have friends who smoke only when they have a drink and my boyfriend refuses to have alcohol if there's no cigarette.

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    • Karmasbitch
      10 years ago

      I'm the same way, I need to quit smoking.

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  • OtherSide
    10 years ago

    If this wasn't normal, tobacco companies would go bankrupt. The drunk smoker is their base demographic.

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  • dirtybirdy
    10 years ago

    Two wrongs are just so right.

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    • Hannible
      10 years ago

      Yeaz I watched a Porno flick once called Two Wongs do make it right lol! Obviously asien girls!

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    • NotStrangeBird
      10 years ago

      Story of my love life.

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  • delling
    10 years ago

    I almost chain smoke when I drink. I've found I can offset some, but not all, of the cravings by drinking a lot of water.

    It sucks, because if I quit smoking, I might have to give up beer entirely.

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  • PsychoNikki
    10 years ago

    I smoke but when I drink I just HAVE to smoke. Like, I won't drink if I don't have cigs and my liquor store run always consists on stocking up on booze and a fresh pack of cigs. I think it's something like "social smoking". There are many people who only smoke socially when accompanied with an alcoholic beverage.

    Just look at the smoking area at any bar club during the day vs at night. Since the majority of the population no longer smokes it's an odd sight to see many people puffing away in a daytime social setting but step onto the patio of any club in the evening and it's like freaking 1950 out there. So yeah, I'd say it's totally normal.

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  • Darkoil
    10 years ago

    Yeah I usually only want a cigarette when I am drinking/drunk. I have an electronic vaporiser now though and I have that all the time but on the plus side I haven't had a proper one in over a month.

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