cigarette cravings..... argghh!

**Chevelle72** · 10-22-2011, 07:16 PM

I haven't had a cigarette in over 5 years, but sometimes (like now) I'd really like to have one. Don't worry I won't give in, my frugal nature is too strong. It was the primary motivation that kept me on the wagon thru those first critical months (and yes, years!).

but DAMN! how can the desire still be there after this long?

DH still smokes (outside). But for us "x-smokers" it still smells good most of the time.

For any others out there in the quitting process, don't get me wrong and DO NOT GIVE IN TO TEMPTATION. It's hard, very hard, but worth it. I promise!

**Uniwolf** · 10-22-2011, 07:30 PM

I hear that from several of my friends who use to smoke

Hubbs and I are just at the begining ... Some days are harder than others for us. But we keep chugging away. Good luck, and I hope the craving doesn't last long.

**Chevelle72** · 10-23-2011, 12:20 AM

Uniwolf,
At this point the cravings are gone in 5 minutes or less.

Good for you and yours for quitting, be strong!

**janal14** · 10-23-2011, 09:57 AM

You can do it uniwolf! This never smoker, but severe asthmatic, has a lot of respect for you.

I'm in the process of getting of an addictive prescription drug right now - tapering it off - and I'm miserable. I'll be thinking of you.

**wunsagin** · 10-23-2011, 10:31 AM

I quit 30mos. ago, I don't really get cravings but there are a lot of times everything smells like smoke, really strong like someone is in my house smoking and no one here smokes.

**Ponderer** · 10-23-2011, 11:20 AM

It will be 8 years for me this next April. The urge still comes every blue moon and it goes as quick as it comes. I just felt like one last week sometime and it really surprised me since I had not craved in over a year. It just made me chuckle truth be told, and then I went on with my smokeless life which I appreciate more then I can say.

For those of you working it.....don't stop, it is soooooo worth it!!!!!!

2 1/2 packs a day....smoked for 26 years....quit cold turkey 4/22/2004.

**shoiji** · 10-23-2011, 12:29 PM

Quit about 4 years ago. I have to admit that cigarette smoke really bothers me now. Sometimes I even forget that I ever smoked. But when I smell the smoke I always tell myself that is what I used to smell like.

Hang in there with the cravings. After the first month they get fewer and fewer. The money I have saved and the emotional stress is so worth not smoking ever again!!!

**DaveP** · 10-23-2011, 05:46 PM

Don't give in to temptation no matter how long it's been. I found that out the hard way. Quit last year for 2 months and I figured I had it beat and it wouldn't matter if I had 'just one'. Wrong. Here I am still wasting my money and my health on the damn things. Oh how I wish I had never started. Been smoking for 30 years now. If all that money had been put in a savings account I'd probably have enough to buy a really nice house, mortgage free. Sigh.

**pat in east texas** · 10-23-2011, 07:45 PM

I quit in 1985. I still dream of smoking and not getting re-addicted. Pipe tobacco smells good to me. But I hate to go into a place where people are smoking a lot. And I will not give up the freedom I have for a cigarette!

**brenda67** · 10-24-2011, 11:08 AM

HUGS,,,I quit 4 &1/2 yrs ago..smoked 27yrs @ 2/3 pack's a day. I love the smell of ciggarette's! I still do once in awhile get a craving..It would be the biggest letdown of my life if i were to ever go back to something that had such ahold of me(my health was going downhill very quickly @ 40yrs old) like no other addiction in my life! I wouldn't be a home owner today if I still smoked.. $10.00 a pack times 62/93 if a 31 day month..you do the math.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,