I get that. When I quit smoking I left a half pack in the drawer....
@Smokin Joe I had such good luck quitting alcohol that a few days later I decided to quit smoking,too. Same deal as with the alcohol. I kept a pack in the house and left a new carton on the dash of my truck to remind me that I COULD have a cigarette any time I wanted if if I REALLY wanted it.
Finally figured it was safe to give them away,and I must have rode around for a month with a whole carton of off-brand cigarettes on the dashboard of my truck,trying to find someone that would take them for free. Seems like everybody I knew were tobacco connoisseurs who would not let an off-brand cigarette touch their lips,so I may have just thrown the damn things away.
I am one of the VERY lucky people who can be around people drinking and smoking,and not even be a little bit temped to participate. And make no mistake about it,it has to do with genetic luck,NOT will power.
I have a great deal of sympathy for people I know who have tried over and over for years to quit drinking and smoking,and were never able to do it. NONE were able to quit smoking,but several were able to stop drinking for months at a time,and then for some odd reason fall off the sobriety wagon,and stay blind drunk for weeks at a time.
Addiction just hits some people harder than others. Will power/determination doesn't seem to have a damn thing to do with it.
As I have noted before on TBR,being lucky is the best damn thing you can be. Beats being rich or anything else you can be.