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I haven’t been smoking long- 5 months. I wouldn’t say I was addicted, but I still get daily cravings. Do non-smokers ever stop getting cravings?
Mike_T says:
I know exactly how you feel, I was in a very similar situation. I remember that I was so nervous at that time and I took it out on everyone around me. I didnt know what could I do until, thanks god, I found Smoke Deter. Now I can look back and laugh on myself and in the same time I remember how helpless I was. I hope that I'll never be in the same situation again
I quit smoking when I got pregnant (after 10 years!) and didn’t really have any cravings. I always thought having a coffee or driving in the car would be the worst to overcome, but after about 2 or 3 weeks I didn’t even miss them. Sometimes the smell of cigarette smoke makes my nicotine receptors perk up and then I fancy a smoke, but I find the worst cravings come if I’ve had a few drinks. If you can lay off the drinking (which isn’t too good for you anyway), you shouldn’t have too bad of cravings.
They do stop, but occasionally you’ll have a day when you fancy one.
My wife and I once quit for 3 months. We gained @45 lbs each. We could smell and taste everything again. It was horrible.I could smell my neighbors BO with him in his house with the door closed and me in my house.We started again.That was about 25 years ago.Never lost the weight after that.I wanted a smoke every minute for those 3 months. The only time I don’t smoke is when my head is under water or I drop my pack in the river (gold miner).My problem is that I LIKE smoking and have no desire to quit.If I had that one thing I could quit in a second.
On the other hand a friend of ours quit cold turkey as did my sister. She quit from 3.5 packs a day.Never went back.So I know it’s possible.
I quit after smoking for 7 years now its been more than a year since i Quit … I do get cravings very rarely like when I finish a huge(Mental) work or some times when I feel like taking a break .. But I say to myself a Strict and Big NO … I get over it in few Seconds
it’s been 17 years seen i quit smoking. i still have times when i’ll have a craving,not often but when i’m stressed or just sometimes when someone else is smoking. congrats to you for quitting and good luck to you.
There was for me. I don’t know exactly, when though. I quit smoking three years and nine months ago. I did miss it at first– going out after my coffee, in the car, walking, etc. The first time I had had a few beers without cigarettes, I did start to hunt for a stray one. One other evening, I was stressed, bored, a bit lonely, and started to hunt for one again. Instead, some neighbors/fellow students of my husband (he was in seminary) invited me to go out with them. They saw me in the parking lot and asked me along. Well. That was certainly much better. Eventually, it got better. Then, that June, I wanted it again. I think I had heard something about the six month mark, if you can make it that long, then you’re good. Well, it started when my husband and I took his sister to New York City for her graduation gift. (Paid for by my MIL who has no desire to go to the City.) It was stressful and a couple of times while there, I was thisclose to buying a pack. The only thing that stopped me was that the cheap packs were $5. (I paid $1.89 for my last pack. I saw how much the cheap packs in NYC are now when my husband, daughter and I were there, as of two weeks ago, but I don’t recall.) Instead, I just relished others’ second hand smoke. Later that month, I took a class at my husband’s seminary, Person in Ministry which took a look at the induvidual as a person, where s/he came from in terms of family dynamics, genetics (very basic, like why we do the things we do, not if I’m genetically predisposed to get cancer or something), faith history in terms of self (faith journey) and family history, etc. It basically ripped apart and rebuilt my faith. Something about that class stressed me to the point when, again, I was thisclose. When I realized how far I had come with not smoking, how others smoking was beginning to bother me, I didn’t do it. Plus, I just didn’t want to spend the money.
I think if you have a goal in mind, like to be healthy for your spouse, yoru current kids and/or your future ones, it can be more helpful. My husband was just sick of me smoking and essentially said it’s me or the cigarettes. He didn’t realize it at the time, but I had decided that I was sick of smoking, too. After ten years, it was just not appealing to me anymore. I think it also helped that we spent a weekend with my parents and I ran out and could not easily leave to get another pack. I went at least 34 hours without one, so I knew I could do it, I just wanted one more pack. I bought it, and smoked the first one right away and whole. Then I started to not only put off when I would go out for one, but only smoke half. By Friday, I was done. It was kinda my last dance with Mary Jane.
Now, I can’t stand the smell of smoke. I think it’s rancid and horrific and I instinctively stop breathing when I smell it. That means I cannot be around my husband’s sister and her husband long and I don’t want my daughter (who is only 13 months) to be around it long, either.
ive got for 2months now and i dont get cravings at all. i think its because when i look at someone smoking i tend to hate them lol