Hi all, new here.

My issue is related to social smoking addiction.

I am a cancer survivor, 12 years now, and the last 3-4 years I have been enjoying a social smoke over a few drinks whenever I was going out. I think I started this over work stress, but all my life due to my cancer situation I was over-protected by my family and I guess starting up rare secret smoking was a rebellion way for me to say I am perfectly fine and can do whatever I want. It might sound stupid but I had the need not to be treated differently than others at the time.

Now I think I am kind of addicted to the social combination of smoking and drinking. I only smoke 2-5 cigarettes on a night, and I don’t go out more than once a week, except during holidays. But I live in a culture where 98% of people smokes and is around me 24/7 so is very hard for me to not have 1 cigarette on my second drink on a night out.

Every time I do that the next morning I feel bad from alcohol and smoking hangover. My throat hurts and I feel awful from the guild of doing it.

All these worries are because I had cancer and I somehow got to believe by others that if I smoke I have higher risks than anyone else to get cancer again, even though I barely smoke compare to them. Is that true?
Also, is the amount of smoking that I do a lot that I should really worry?
Any advice on how to completely stop smoking when drinking?

I’ll appreciate an thoughts and suggestions on the subject.

Many thanks.

L