Cigarette Dreams

[RonJ]

I've been off the smokes for nearly three years. Once in a while I still get a craving but it's usually short lived. Lately I've been having very intense dreams about smoking. I can taste the full flavor and feel the rush you get from the first few puffs. It feels so realistic. I also feel the disgust with myself for starting again after so long. So far I've been able to resist smoking in my waking hours.
Any other cigarette dreamers out there? Did they stop after a while.

 

[max]

I quit 41 years ago, but have dreams that I have started again.

 

[pmosley]

Dream about buying a few packs at the local convenience store and it should quickly turn in to a night$$mare!

 

[blujax01]

I will be free for three years this coming October. I don't have cravings but people ask how I quit and when I begin to tell them I drool. Not "drool-bucket" amounts but my mouth definitely begins to water uncontrollably -

AS IT IS RIGHT NOW!

I just wonder What the Hell was that??, shrug my shoulders and move along.

Insidious addiction, ain't it?

 

[Rule3]

It's "normal" Smoking was so ingrained in you brain it will be there forever. That's why (nicotine) it is one of the most addictive substance known. Quitting the physical takes 3-4 days, the rest is mental.

"One is too many, 100 is not enough.

The urge will pass whether you smoke or not."

I don't dream about it any more as it's been a longer time.

I remember driving in the car after quitting for several years and my hand just involuntarily reached in my shirt pocket to pull out a a pack, wasn't even thinking of smoking, weirdest thing ever.

Hang in there, dream about sex or something

 

[pharman]

Ad on TV

Check out the ad on TV where the sickly looking woman is getting dressed; puts on wig and adjusts her voice box to start her day...quite graphic... that is enough for me not to start again...also I can't afford $5 a pack! Dreams aside...just don't take the 1st one and you'll be OK. The 1st one sets up the addiction that follows. When I did quit I had to ask myself "what did I actually get out of this?" Nothing...just more craving for more.

 

[Shooting Padre]

I didn't quite smoking twenty-seven years ago, I was delivered from it. Take it as you will, I absolutely could not get rid of the habit myself. But one night I felt that I had no faith if, having told my wife the only way to for me to quit was to give it to God, and then buy more. Long story short, I never had another cigarette or the urge to smoke after that night. I was smoking two and a half packs a day. It's beyond my understanding, but that's what happened. I'm glad to hear how others here have quit. Great job guys.

 

[giddyupsut]

I quit in 96 and still reach for the imaginary pack in my shirt pocket occasionally.
That nicotine grabs you by the Boo Boo and it doesn't quit.

 

[pawncop]

After I quit, the dreams were pretty intense. I continued to have them for several years.

The dreams lessened in frequency and intensity as time continued, but every so often, I will be firing up my pipe and taking a long draw of Borkim Riff, or Sail or what ever I used to smoke.

 

[RightArm]

Stopped at 5 cigs per day instead of 3 packs. Never quit all the way. Seems good enough considering I completely quit drinking nearly 3 yrs ago. My doctor doesn't complain.

 

[bloo]

Been 22 years. 2 pack a day habit stopped cold turkey. Still sometimes I get a real craving for a smoke. Then I remember the heart attack that gave me the incentive to stop.

 

[Straightshooter2]

I quit 5 years ago this month but a couple of months ago I did have dreams for a few nights about smoking a Marlboro or two. I quit with the aid of Chantix and only had to use it a month rather than the three they recommend. What they say about Chantix changing your mood is true so anybody using it, be very careful of your emotions. I was mad at the world while using it!

BTW, on the one year anniversary of quitting in 1998 I bought a very nice Pentax DSLR with the money I saved from not smoking. So for those still smoking, think how many Smith & Wesson's you've spent at the convenience store.

CW

 

[Beemerguy53]

I quit almost 30 years ago, and I don't miss it at all.

Perhaps having had my first cancer operation eight years after I quit smoking has something to do with that...

 

[Beemer-mark]

I quite 21 years ago, after smoking 2~3 packs of unfiltered Camels for 25 years. It took about 15 years to really get rid of the habit. During that time I couldn't stand it and would "bum" a cigarette once in a great while. The worse thing was getting a whiff of a cigarette, it would either make me intensely sick or drive me to "I just had to have one". Second hand smoke after 15~20 years would smell so delicious I'd have to leave where I was.

I came to the conclusion that I would not be a slave to an addiction. Tough but just hang in there. I had an acquaintance who did heroin and thought shooting that drug was less addictive the smoking.

 

[Onomea]

Been quit seven months. This time...

Yeah, I miss it. But every time I have quit before, probably a half dozen times, I would get to the point after a few months where I'd think, "Well, just an occasional smoke won't hurt me," and I'd fire one up.. Be back at a pack a day or more in no time. This time I am hoping I'll stick with it.

 

[NCTexan]

Interesting that when I clicked this thread, this ad was embedded to the right of the initial posting.

 

[DeadAye]

I had my last cigarette 3 years ago this July.
I had a smoking dream a week or so ago, but they're few and far between now.
They were quite frequent for the first 2 years, but have almost stopped now.

MAN - I'D LOVE TO HAVE A SMOKE
But I know better - I'd just have to quit again and I ain't going through THAT again!

 

[Rule3]

Check out the ad on TV where the sickly looking woman is getting dressed; puts on wig and adjusts her voice box to start her day...quite graphic... that is enough for me not to start again...also I can't afford $5 a pack! Dreams aside...just don't take the 1st one and you'll be OK. The 1st one sets up the addiction that follows. When I did quit I had to ask myself "what did I actually get out of this?" Nothing...just more craving for more.

It is pretty graphic! If that doesn't deter someone, not much will.

When I finally quit, I would look at people (especially at work) and I could ID the smokers by their greyish color and lines and wrinkles.(more pronounced on Women)

Then they would walk by and the smell was awful.

I used to smell like that!

 

[GatorFarmer]

Pipe tobacco handrolled nice and thick.... I have one or two a dayu. Big bags of it are $11 at Walgreens. Value like that and it is a shame not to smoke.

 

[amazingflapjack]

I was diagnosed with emphysema at age 26-almost 40 years ago. Like every thing else that I needed to get shed of, I received my deliverance from the Lord, and was healed at the same time. No dreams.