If you've had former addictions, do they sometimes come back to sneak up on you?

If you've had former addictions, do they sometimes come back to sneak up on you?
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answer:I’m a recovered alcoholic and also an ex-smoker. Alcohol ruined much of my life. I am 1 week and 2 days shy of my 14th anniversary of sobriety, and I can honestly say that no, it hasn’t come back to haunt me. It hadn’t until last night. I got sober through the 12 steps of AA. It worked for me. I don’t know why. It doesn’t work for everyone, and I don’t know why about that either. Quite a number of people get sober through other means of counseling and some on their own alone. Then there are the people who can’t get sober and die from the disease. Last night, I found out that my first AA sponsor decided to start drinking again after 25 years of sobriety. He’s been drinking for about a year and a half, and from his description, he’s fine. He’s drinking like a normal person, which means he rarely drinks. Since this news, there’s been a tiny voice in the back of my head wondering if I could drink again, too. A louder voice reminds the tiny voice that I am also bipolar and that I was drinking to self-medicate that disease. Drinking for me was never a normal affair of one or two ********* once or twice a month. Drinking was a daily thing. Drunkenness was a daily thing. I’m not going to drink at least for today. The few thoughts I’ve had about drinking today have been weak. They rise at the back of my mind, and they go. I quit smoking about 7.5 years ago, and that was hard. It was very hard actually. I have no cravings, and I don’t miss it in the least. I quit by weaning myself down from full strength cigarettes to mild and then to ultra mild. Finally, I bought the cheapest ones I could possibly find that tasted like shit, so giving up was a pleasure. I did use the nicotine gum for the first week, if I remember correctly. I have no magic words to offer only hugs for anyone battling any form of addiction.
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