I was just wondering about this since the smokers I know also drink excessively. Is there really a connection between smoking and drinking alcohol?
Can Smoking Lead to Alcohol Addiction?
– October 5, 2008Posted in: Alcohol Addiction Treatment
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Smoking and alcohol consumption actually happens to be interrelated. Nicotine increases alcohol cravings and alcohol boosts smoking effects. This is why smokers are usually drinkers too. If the person is really dependent upon smoking and alcohol, it’s always best to get addiction treatment. Treating both smoking and alcohol addiction simultaneously would be the best way to go, as treating only one first might only lead to relapse soon after.
While there is a correlation between drinking and smoking, it’s not a guarantee. There are a lot of smokers out there who don’t drink, and a lot of drinkers who don’t smoke. It’s got a lot more to do with the tendency toward addictive behaviors in general. In fact, the report the earlier poster cited actually says that it is more likely for individuals who are smokers, but don’t smoke every day, to have the highest rates of problem drinking. In other words, drinking is more likely to induce a non-smoker to smoke. In any case, smoking is a health hazard and it is best not to ever start.
There may be but need not be. Many people who drink in company tend to smoke especially if the drinking started at an impressionable age. Then again both these activities are perceived as “fashionable” in some segments of society. It may also be related by common “addiction” receptors in the brain.
A person may be drinking or smoking because of factors within the self like depresson or personality problems, which we psychiatrists term “self-medicating”. The latter may be extended to include other substances of abuse too.
I can’t think of any way that smoking leads to alcohol problems. Unless you drink simply to to keep company with smokers
There is definitely a connection between smoking and alcoholism, as the study referenced by cielo showed, but it’s important to remember the principle of science that “correlation does not imply causation.” That is, just because there is a connection between the two factors doesn’t necessarily mean that one causes the other. It could very well be that another factor causes both of them. There are personality traits that could drive a person to be both a smoker and a drinker. Obviously, neither smokers nor heavy drinkers are typically very health-conscious people, and both obviously also share a proclivity to becoming addicted to drugs. They are also probably not happy with themselves. It seems to me that these common personality traits are likely what are really causing the connection.
To answer the second part of the question, yes, they should definitely seek addiction treatment. Their actions put their health at risk, and if they don’t work on their psychological issues, they might also risk getting into even more dangerous drugs.