Hi Breezy816,
First of all, congratulations on your first few days.
Second, in regards to temptation on your trip, I have a few thoughts.
1) If drinking is a trigger for smoking, you might want to avoid drinking for a while. You can still have plenty of fun on vacation without drinking. When I first quit, I was scared to drink for a while. When I finally tried it a few times, I actually discovered that I just didn't like drinking as much as I did before. My theory is that I was getting more intoxication value from the smoking binge that went with the drinks. So now I don't drink so much, and that's fine. Gives me more time to enjoy life in other ways.
2) You might be able to flip the reasoning about travel and smoking. When I was in the quit process, I actually detox'd from nicotine earlier than I had planned. Why? Because I knew I was going to be on a plane to a foreign country, and I wasn't sure if I would have access to nicotine lozenges. I also didn't want to risk relapsing into smoking and then dealing with having to find places and times to smoke while travelling. (Travel by plane can be a real pain, in terms of trying to get regular smokes in between flight legs, finding the smoker's area if there is one, etc.). So, long story short is that I was happy to be able to travel without nicotine. It was empowering and freeing to not have to answer the call of the Nico-demon for the first time in years.
3) oh, and when your smoking friends light up, just leave the area. Don't stand around, sniffing up the fumes and hoping for a secondhand hit.
Just let them smoke while you enjoy your meal, a book, the view, etc. (Carrying mints and something to read and/or do with your hands while waiting can be helpful, too.)
Good luck to you. i hope that you will be able to treat this trip as a reward for your quit efforts when it arrives.
