Reducing drinking could help with smoking cessation, research finds. New research has found that heavy drinkers who are trying to stop smoking may find that reducing their alcohol use can also help them quit their daily smoking habit. Heavy drinkers' nicotine metabolite ratio -- a biomarker that indicates how quickly a person's body metabolizes nicotine -- reduced as they cut back on their drinking. Source 2t.
Smoking cessation strategies targeting stress reduction may be more successful in women. Women are 31 percent less likely to quit smoking successfully, in part because nicotine replacement therapy is more effective in male smokers. Female smokers experienced more stress and craving than men after viewing cellphone-delivered stress-inducing images, report researchers. Although all smokers making a cessation attempt would likely benefit from interventions to reduce stress, these findings suggest that women could receive particular benefit. Source 5y.
For sure that if you slow down on drinking you can slow down on smoking. Something about drinking just makes you want to smoke way more than usual.