Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people?
Sami@lemmy.zip 9 months agoNicotine feels great. It’s why I still crave it after giving it up a while back. Everything else involved is horrible but there’s a reason people get hooked to begin with.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 9 months ago
7 years smoke free still crave it, but it nasty and I have desire to start smoking again. Definitely an addiction that hard to overcome.
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Gave up 27 years ago, got cancer anyway, still have dreams about smoking. Once you’re hooked, the cravings never go away.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks for confirming my fear. 20 years for me. My dad been quite for going on 20 and only smoked for like 15 years and still gets craving.
glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org 9 months ago
I did not find that at all.
I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)
The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.
If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.
I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.