Given up smoking and struggling.

No one winds me up on here, that'd be like sheep winding a wolf up. Just not gonna happen.

Well its not quite as simple as that. I can't give up everything I enjoy doing for fear it'll make me want a cigarette. Otherwise that would mean not touching a drop of alcohol for the rest of my life. Which is absurd (to me, anyway).
Also, you seem to have just focused on the alcohol part - both my parents smoke and my friends smoke. I can't stop hanging around them just because it tempts me can I?

My friend did her PhD on nicotine addiction. She was telling me the triggering pathways are really difficult to break. As an ex-smoker I still get cravings after a glass of wine or cider and I quit over a year ago. I think it takes a long time for it to stop but the cravings are definitely less bad.

I think instead of going cold turkey (since your friends all smoke etc) you should try nicotine supplements. I know they look a bit dumb but the cigarette shaped inhalers are probably best and you can "smoke" them inside! hehe.

A wolf? You're more like one of those infuriating little jack russells that incessantly yap and nip at your ankles.

I usually think about dating...well i say to myself "who would kiss a smoker? i wouldn't" sooo yhh...that surely helped me

So you're admitting I annoy you?

Oh please I don't care about you enough to annoy me.