That's very true. That's always been my strategy for quitting anything in the past. If I'm not around drugs, I don't do them. The problem is that booze is legal and available anywhere, so it's a little harder to isolate oneself from it. Still, if I wanted to quit, I'd stop hanging around all my friends who drink. It would suck, but that would be my first step.

Well do they put out?

I know. It's the reason that I got so deep into drugs I think. It's a family trait I believe. Not a hereditary disease.

The point I'm trying to make is that kicking drugs is a choice. You CAN stop. I'm living proof. Don't buy into the shit they tell you about what addiction is. That's how it gets you for life. I've seen it a lot of times. As soon as they go to that psychiatrist, and he convinces them they are sick with a disease....it's all over.
Then he writes them a perscription for some shit, and a lifelong addict is born.

I have been having problems again also. It is hard shit to deal with. I met my wife almost 3 years ago, and I was doing great then. Looked like an NFL strong safety type and pretty much had things together. Then we chose to get married. Weddings and planning with the mother in law are awful. We have family issues with a father (I am the step-father) that is a 100% ass and doesn't like paying his child support because he lost in court. Now, it is coming back on us again. Most likely going to have to go to court over this again. I didn't even know how bad it was until the past year. Our daughter is on Adderall and is a complete space monkey almost all the time. I have also had several issues myself recently, including no income. Credit stuff building up, loss of faith in many things, etc. That makes for one pissed off wife, let me tell ya. They are usually pissed about something anyway, but hey. lol I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Good luck to you. I am sitting here at this time with two Keystone Lights sitting in front of me. I feel ya man.

I drink too much and I chew. Going to quit chewing....AGAIN....starting Oct. 1. I quit for a year and just started chewing again for some stupid reason....once I got back to over 1 can a day, I realized I needed to quit if for no other reason than for my kids.

I don't drink a lot, but I drink often enough that I'm concerned. You know, a couple beers a night. Maybe I shouldn't be all the concerned because I don't sit around and get drunk, but just the fact that I feel like I want to have a couple beers every night kind of concerns me.

I think that is where AA comes in handy, it gets you away from that group of friends and gives you a group of people to make friends from.

Chewing is a really disgusting habit...even as a dude it makes me disgusted.

Butch up.

Trust me...I agree. We have some butch ass lady at my work that chews. Talk about disgusting.

Good Luck SR, If you put you mind to it and really want to do it, you will get through it.

People, places, and things is what they call it. Meetings can be good, but there are entirely too many way crazy people for me to deal with that all the time. There are good people, but most are not really trustworthy.

The wife is on me to quit dipping again as well.

A friend of mine does it...he always has bottles and cans full of spit around it's just gross.

I'd rather have someone smoke and blow it in my face and I'm a non smoker than watch someone dip and spit, that's how much it bugs me.

Yup. I've been doing it for so long that it doesn't bother me, but I can see why it would bother anyone else.