In high school i was stupid, so i started hanging out in the smoking area. One thing leads to another and now ten years later i still have a pack a day habit. I should quit and i will quit if my wife gets in a family way, but it's a daunting task that i keep putting off.
I have been drinking since I was about 14, i grew up in a small town in Quebec, where the drinking age was really more of a sugestion. Again in High school I wasn't too bright and drank large volumes of beer and vodka simply because I could, the drinking was fun, the hangovers were not. Nowadays I go about 8-10 months between drinks and i haven't been drunk in years, mostly because i have beter things to spend money on, and partly because the buzz hasn't gotten any better over the years, but the hangovers kick my older ass much harder now.
I never really used drugs, IE weed, hash, shrooms ect. ect. because i don't like being high. Weird but true, but i just don't enjoy the feeling of being detached from myself.