If the smoke when they go out to bars, then they have not quit. Sorry.<br />There are no exceptions when you quit.<br />Period.
Absolutly not!<br /><br />The only reason I have made it 132 Days today is the fact that I learned what tricks my mind had played on me all the other times I quit smoking.<br /><br />.... Once you quit, you are a non smoker. Period. "have a smoke with a beer"... It's just another trick your mind plays with you. your brain LIKES Nicotene, and if it can trick YOU into giving it what it wants, it will!<br /><br /><br />I've failed many times in the past, a few weeks into it, "reward" yourself... and your right back on it.
I understand this mentality, but in the cases I have seen, it truly is an exception. They only smoke when they drink, whether it be three days since their last cigarette, or three months. It's not an excuse to continue smoking, they do not frequent bars more often just to have an excuse to smoke. My girlfriend in particular, she smoked about 3 times a year, only when she went out to bars.<br /><br />I know they have documentation on different mental/physical states induced by drugs, and they truly are separate. If a person learns something while high on dope, he will remember it better the next time he is high than he will when he is sober, because he learned it while high. I figured it was much the same effect, but I don't see much to support my theory here.
I think you are correct in that these people are the exceptions. But I know so many who do just that it makes me wonder. My fishing partner and I were just talking about that last Saturday. With us we think it will be a DO or DONT type thing. Which is why we were talking about it in the first place.
Take care, Heinz
