(Another "Cool Story Bro")
Stayed clean in the Navy. College corrupted me.
Four years of football games, party time, beer and weed. When Monday came, studied. Nothing until Friday except the pretty common "can I come over this evening"? Hump Day was a thing before the camel.
My degree said I could be a teacher. (UPS happened) My roommates, one retired a doctor, the other a dentist. I do not know how they did it. They partied harder than me.
When I got married, actually before, because there was going to be no , I do until I did. I vowed not to drink or smoke again. I was 23. I really never had difficulty with stopping. Got out of the environment, focused on right things.
I didn't know how lucky I was. Found out some 40 years later, both roommates had major problems in their families because both were alcoholics. Could not stop.