What percentage of recovering alchoholics smoke?

Answer 1

All the recovering alcoholics who were smoking earlier (100%) continue to smoke. Alcohol dependence is caused by certain biochemical neurotransmitter disturbances (probably genetically determined) that cause 'compulsion' or 'addiction' factor. In the recovering alcoholics it is a miracle that they are coming out of the dependence. It is considered by some that getting off nicotine dependence (smoking addiction) is more difficult than getting off alcohol dependence. Just as medical treatment helps giving up alcohol, if medical treatment is taken while giving up smoking it would be easier to give up smoking. Such medical help is most often not sought by people in their sincere effort to give up smoking.