HikingFish and MtnMike - congrats to you both. MM - Having seen your avatar a few times I'd always guessed you were an athlete....you have a sort of rugby player build it looks like.
I started smoking cigarettes at 15 and quit at 29. I spent half my life anticipating that cool Carolina smoke after meals, movies, sex, while driving....and it's a damned hard thing to rewire yourself after that long, especially where an addiction is involved. Been two yrs. and while I occasionally catch myself thinking about 'em, I'll never smoke another in my life, ever. That's it. Quitting for me was waaaay too damned hard to even consider a relapse/repeat of that.
Right now there are 8 Hoegaardens, 13 Bass Ales, and 2 Long Trails in my fridge. I love beer, but will only have 2 or 3 at a time, maybe once a week, then I won't have one for 2 weeks....much like Pete Hickey's smoking from the sounds of it. As for any illicit substances, well....
"I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk." - Steve Martin
