If you're trying to quit smoking to boost your health, there might be an added benefit.
Smokers trying to kick the habit tend to give up drinking as well, a new study has found.
Ex-smokers not only drank less in the first week of stubbing out, they were less inclined to binge drink.
They were more likely to be classified as 'light drinkers' - drinking within government regulations - compared with those who were not attempting to stop smoking.
Experts said this goes against the belief that people who have quit start drinking more as a result.
Smokers who have recently quit tend to cut down on alcohol as well as cigarettes, a new study has found
Lead author Jamie Brown, from University College London, England, said: 'These results go against the commonly held view that people who stop smoking tend to drink more to compensate.
'It's possible that they are heeding advice to try to avoid alcohol because of its link to relapse.'
Previous research has shown that smoking and drinking are linked - people associate lighting up with having a pint.
As a result those trying to quit smoking are often advised to drink less at the same time.
The study involved household surveys, where a total of 6,287 out of 31,878 people reported smoking between March 2014 and September 2015.
Of these, 144 had begun an attempt to quit smoking in the week before the survey.
They had also completed a validated questionnaire called the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test.
