Ha, did you expect to get any more than get counseling ...or choose a different hobby (working out, playing sports), which is probably what your counselor will probably tell you when he agrees that you aren't an alcoholic.
The sad truth of it all is that this is and has always been the way of the American hard-working male (this is my opinion, derived from being and working with said males).
You really have three choices (at least these are the ones I see to answer my alcohol problem):
1) Work less and suffer the innumerable consequences.
2) Move somewhere (read out of the U.S.) where working the hardest isn't the only metric of success and thus work less with fewer consequences.
3) Smoke anyway, which is what I do when I can ...considerably better than alcohol (do your research before you flame to all those passionate rule following types)
The sad truth of it all is that this is and has always been the way of the American hard-working male (this is my opinion, derived from being and working with said males).
You really have three choices (at least these are the ones I see to answer my alcohol problem):
1) Work less and suffer the innumerable consequences.
2) Move somewhere (read out of the U.S.) where working the hardest isn't the only metric of success and thus work less with fewer consequences.
3) Smoke anyway, which is what I do when I can ...considerably better than alcohol (do your research before you flame to all those passionate rule following types)