Community Experience · Baidu Tieba (Quit Smoking bar)
One Scare, Two Quits: Stopping Alcohol and Cigarettes Within a Week
After a night of heavy drinking brought on racing heartbeat, shortness of breath and sweating — and an emergency-room visit found sinus tachycardia — a community member quit alcohol, then finished the last cigarettes and quit smoking four days later.
Experience snapshot
- Quit method
- Cold Turkey, Quitting alcohol at the same time
- Years smoking
- Not reported
- Cigarettes per day
- Not reported
- Quit attempt number
- Not reported
- Age group
- Not reported
- Gender
- Not reported
Reported outcome
Not reported beyond the start of the attempt.
What can be learned
A health scare can become the trigger for quitting two habits at once.
Evidence status
This is a single community report (community-report). It describes one person's experience. It does not constitute medical advice or scientific evidence.
This page summarizes a community-reported personal experience. It does not constitute medical advice or scientific evidence. Identifying details have been removed.