"Lobby Dosser" wrote in message
In general, the required change is the admission that you are an Addict. I
drank heavily from 18 to 23

So did I at the same age for several years. Every weekend, I'd have some
friends over and I'd drink two bottles of cheap wine during a card game.
After I moved out and was on my own with most of us going our different
ways, I drank very little after that. I think it was just the social aspect
of it that brought on the drinking.

time. I can take a drink any time I want and have no problems refusing the
second. If I smoke ONE cigarette, I NEED a carton.

Fortunately, I never had that problem. The ten years I smoked and then quit
had no noticeable addictive properties attached at all. Ten years later when
I was in the hospital for three months, I held the cigarette for a
quadraplegic acquaintence and the smell of the nicotine on my fingers
afterwards almost made me gag.