My 3 cravings in 6 months

[REZ]

After 6 months of quit, I have had only 3 small craves worth talking about.

 

#1 was after drinking some Jack Daniels after work with some fellow workers.

 

#2 was after finding a unopened pack of smokes in my truck.

 

#3 was after shopping in a department store.

 

All three times I was lucky enough to have the same person there for support!

 

Looking at each of them, they were all started by different triggers.

 

#1 was obviously alcohol, my opinion one of the most powerful triggers!

 

#2 was by being in the presence of cigarettes, a who's going to know triggerI

 

#3 was a little unexpected because it came out of no where, letting your gaurd down trigger!

 

I have learned always expect the unexpected and watchout for the favorable conditions crave.

 

But I still have not had a smoking dream yet.

 

Just wondering how many of you remember your cravings?

[Jonny5]

I jad a trigger just last week. I found my old gas camping stove and took it to a job where I had no power to make a hot drink.

 

I had such a flashback of touring and using the stove and of smoking while waiting for it to boil.

 

Of course now it's just an irritation that can be igmorred. But it was a reminder that our brains retain the autocues for some time if they aren't rewritten.

 

Ps I hate smoking dreams. I'm always hopelessly hooked and depressed at the fact. So glad to wake from them.

[babs609]

i had a trigger tonight...after my dogs were viciously attacked.  After the adrenaline calmed down...I was looking for my "reward"

 

this disease never goes away....but it's one craving in...I would say...in 3 months...and that one was very mild.

 

I'll take the occasional crave any day over every 20 minutes

 

last smoking dream was in my first 6 months

[action]

Have had a few craves but not recently - noting really major that I can remember. But I did have a smoking dream. It was either last night or the night before. Can't remember which but it was not pleasant. Unfortunately I think I will have to contend with them for a long time to come. But like Babs said, better than having a crave every 20 minutes !

[Tink]

No dreams for me either  :blink:

 

You are kicking this quit - like a boss! 

[El Bandito]

I remember them all right!

 

What I get now are not really craves. They are irritants, or possibly reminders which might be a good thing.

 

Dreams, still get the odd one I think, but I'm terrible at remembering dreams.

[Ladybug]

I got the last big craving at the funeral...it didn't last long, I walked away from smoking people and I was fine. I never had those big overwhelming cravings and sometimes I still wonder if the big "BOING" will hit me one day. 

[beacon]

Every morning I get a urge? A thought? to smoke. It is related to the first cigarette of the day. No idea why. Also, the car cigarette. This I kill with gum.

[SueBeDoo]

That's good going Rez, I have several smoking dreams every week but they really don't bother me.

The last few days have been very hard and I have a bad feeling I'm not going to be smoke free much longer. That sucks but I'm at my witts end.

[Rain Forest]

I had very few craves when I quit smoking (this time… in my other “attempts before relapses, I had a lot)… this time around I had an attitude that made it really easy to quit.

 

I have 2 craves I can remember vividly:

 

1) Driving to the Plaid Pantry because I was sick of not “getting to” smoke… and driving around that damn block for about an hour… I refused to give in and my quit became stronger.

 

2) About 2 months into my quit, I went into my husband’s office and told him I really would like a cig… he said “well then, have one” and proceeded to tell me that the 7 packs I had told him to destroy when I quit, they were in his closet… I looked, and sure enuf, my brand, 7 packs, sitting right there staring at me… omg was I mad… so mad that I forgot I wanted to smoke… lol… he later told me it was a “test” for me… I was either a smoker or a non-smoker… I understand now what he meant but I could have kicked his ash then.

 

I had a few smoking dreams my first year of my quit, but they were always dreams of how I wanted one, but then felt guilty that I wanted one, then I’d wake up relieved it was a dream.

 

REZ, you have an amazingly strong quit… rock on!

 

Babs, wtf???  How are your doggys? OMG!!! I would be so upset.

[Nancy]

That's good going Rez, I have several smoking dreams every week but they really don't bother me.

The last few days have been very hard and I have a bad feeling I'm not going to be smoke free much longer. That sucks but I'm at my witts end.

Sue, what on earth???  You know smoking won't help anything...why are you thinking of abandoning your quit??

[Ladybug]

That's good going Rez, I have several smoking dreams every week but they really don't bother me.

The last few days have been very hard and I have a bad feeling I'm not going to be smoke free much longer. That sucks but I'm at my witts end.

 

Sue...talk to us....we are here for you. You can yell, scream, curse, cry, laugh...whatever is necessary and whatever will help. I can listen...so can everybody else here. You are loved and we are very proud of you.

 

You are a very special Lady with a funny English :-)

 

Sue....I am serious talk to us....talk to your quit buddy. Write in your blog or start one, write down what you feel in a post, either here or in the secret section. write it in a PM..just get it out. Sharing means you don't carry the burden alone!