i drink cigs and smoke beer

I started smoking and drinking at 12 because I thought it would make me look cool and developed a pretty bad drinking habit in high school and college. After college it got worse and there were some severe consequences. Finally got sober at 30. I’d been trying to quit smoking for years but would always light up when I’d had a few beers and since that was pretty much all the time, I wasn’t able to quit smoking until I quit drinking.

I haven’t touched either in almost 27 years and I’m so much better off for it.

I hate everything about tobacco. Drink? Only specialish occasions.

I smoked cigarrettes and drank alcohol for years, started when I was fifteen and stopped cold turkey when I turned thirty. That was sixteen years ago.

Tobacco was way harder to stop since my habit was up to about two or two and a half packs a day. My alcohol consumption was very high too, entire bottles of whatever I could get my hands on. I would “pregame” at my own house while getting ready to go to a party or nightclub and that would be my first bottle of the that night. But it is no comparison to how the lack of tobacco made me feel.

Both my parents were/are heavy smokers, my dad had a heart attack due to his smoking habit ten years ago. I still miss him. My mom still smokes and she is not interested in stopping.

I now know I was self medicating so I could survive trauma and cope in school (ADHD and CPTSD is a rough combo) and a great part of overcoming substance abuse, was the love and care of my husband. He pushed me to want to be a better person and stay around longer in better conditions.

I used to. I have stopped. My life is much better without.

Smoking has always been gross to me. It stinks from a mile away and the breath of smokers is horrendous. Doubly so for weed. I also think vaping sucks. Most vapers just seen to not care about anyone in their surroundings. If there’s a vaper near me at a concert I find it hard to breathe at times, on top of not being able to see through their Thomas the tank engine sized puff of smoke.

I don’t mind drinking but I’ve never been a crazy drinker as I’ve not needed it to join in on the fun. I’ve not drank for the entirety of this year but that’s due to my adhd meds and I’ve not felt the need to actively not take them just so i can drink one night.

I’m a millennial.

Fellow older Gen Z here. Atleast in europe to not drink or smoke is quite unusual. But i am the same. I just dont see any appeal in it. For me smoking is throwing health and money out of the window. And i dislike the taste of alcohole plus what it does to a human

29 here. Kinda consider myself between generations.

I smoke tobacco, albeit very, very seldomly. About two packs a year, tops, plus a proper cigar roughly every quarter. Never vaped. Can’t do weed, because my job is federally regulated and I get drug tested too often.

I used to drink rather heavily, especially during the pandemic - I’d put away a bottle of rum or vodka over the course of nearly every weekend. I still drink sometimes, but nowhere near as much or as often. Mostly taste-testing homemade wine batches, every couple months. It’s been about a year since the last time I got pandemic-levels of drunk.

I can walk to 10 breweries in 15 mins from my house in Seattle. I love the taste of pretty much any alcohol. It’s a unique taste that’s an art in either beer or cocktails or liquor. I used to drink almost every day because of this. I’ve since stopped drinking most weekdays unless it’s a special occasion, like a beer release, friends over, etc. and I think it’s helping me. I’m not addicted, but it was a little bit different to quit because it was a way I’ve dealt with every day’s stress. My first drink was when I was 19 in Italy (am American) and enjoyed a few cocktails on my trip (not wine or beer at first).

I’ve only smoked cigarettes a handful of times with friends in very special occasions. I did cigars a couple times a year. I used to do taobacco pipe once or twice a month for a few years because I liked the taste with a scotch whiskey, but never enough to get a nicotine buzz. I only smoke weed nowadays, probably twice a month, but mostly vape pens.

My parents didn’t drink often growing up, but they smoked well before I was born. I’m a millennial so going to college it was kind of expected, and I grew to like it.

Tobacco: no absolutely not, I hate the smell and just don’t see the point.

Alcohol: extremely rarely, I have a well stocked bar at home, and used to drink alcohol a few times a month, but in the last few years two things happened.

1. I got a driving license and a car, I was 35 and got it late. I have a zero tolerance for alcohol and driving, no light beer, nothing, if I am going to drive I will simply not drink any alcohol. And since I got the driving license and car I want to be able to get in the car at any point in case of emergencies and not have to worry about having had alcohol.
2. I realized that alcohol was just simply annoying to me, I get hot, have trouble sleeping and the next day I am really tired and slow to get going, even after just having drunk a small ammonit. I apparently am a lightweight, and that it perfectly fine, alcohol doesn’t mean much to me, so I don’t feel like I am missing anything. I like the bottles of alcohol I have so I will save them for a bar shelf that looks cool. I do participate in toasts or celebrations when I know I won’t drive, I even have four bottles of cheap champagne with customized ribbons for Trump, Putin, Musk and Orban to toast with when the world is spared their existance, but that is the extent of my alcohol consumption.

no

I hate the tobacco smell (stink?) and ‘hard’ alcohol makes me nauseated, even just a glass. I do sometimes drink small amount of wine in social settings, not enough to get drunk. beer disgusts me though.

Nope.

At least not normally. I’ll vape in certain settings, and do enjoy smoking socially. But that shit is so bad for you, is unattractive, and expensive, that there’s really no reason to consume it on a regular basis. It’s like dessert to me, in that I really don’t need it all the time, I’m too focused on going the OTHER direction in life, so that when I DO consume stuff like this that’s fun and feels good, it’s in limited settings and quantity.

That being said, I’m really really weird and not like most other people in a ton of ways. So, largely, to each their own, but this is just my way.

I’m a millennial, for reference, my parents (mostly my dad) casually drank a bit when I was younger (like a six pack of beer on holidays, or a beer here or there maybe a 24 pack over a few months), but now that they’re retired, neither smoke nor drink except for special occasions. Also neither of them are gamblers (gambling is super stupid and I see it as intellectually cowardly. You wanna take a risk? Go try to do something powerful in the world that helps people).

I don’t really entirely like the effects of nicotine, alcohol, or cannabis, either. So they’re very social-coded for me. If I wanted to be out of breath, I’d go for a run. If I wanted to be loud and stupid, I’ll just be loud and stupid. If I need to relax, I’ll meditate. They’re self destructive to me, and my life doesn’t need more of that hahaha

Like everything, there’s a time and place for all of these. And my day-to-day life and long term health is not that time or place.

I do want to emphasize though, that we ALL have our vices, and we don’t entirely get to pick them. So I will not condemn anybody that has these other than pointing out why specifically I don’t.

Tobacco, no. I was on a construction crew one summer, everyone else chain smoked, I didn’t, then I went off to college and a week later couldn’t figure out why I was craving the smell of cigarettes. That was a rough semester.

Alcohol, 2-3 units/drinks a month. A glass of wine with the week’s fancy meal, maybe but that’s about it.

Cannabis, wake and bake. I use it medically, but could probably cut back a little. Not much tho, it manages a life threatening condition well enough my case got put into the literature.

The cult I grew up in was straight edge without all the ethics, so like even coffee was a big deal when I got free of that one

I enjoy my whiskeys, wine, beer and various other alcoholic beverages. They taste good and when enjoyed properly are part of a certain type of fun evening.

I don’t like tobacco all that much, but holy fuck do I crave the stuff. My lungs can’t take it anymore and I was always a very sparing user (ie the jackass who bums a cig maybe once a year, but never buys her own pack), so it’s been over a year since my last.

And yeah if my answer didn’t make that clear, I’m a millennial