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Topic: Psychological urge to smoke always returns
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sweet-scorpion
Moderator Posts: 2375
From: CO, USA
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted December 19, 2014 12:06 AM
  
It only takes several days to a week, on average, for nicotine to leave the system so the body won't crave it anymore, or so I've been told. While this does seem apparent, I have severe psychological cravings for nicotine that continue to persist months after quitting. I will miss the sensation of holding and smoking cigarettes, and how it made me feel.  I have been especially stressed lately, and the psychological need is only increasing. Does anyone have any success stories or tips to share to curve these psychological cravings? I really do not want to start smoking again. I quit for a second time, and that is enough. IP: Logged |
Lexxigramer
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From: The Etheric Realms...Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat...& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 19, 2014 12:14 AM
It is not always easy.
The psychological addiction is definitely in my experience, the most difficult to conquer.
However the nicotine does amp the addiction.
Try E-cigs to wean off of the tobacco/nicotine addiction.
You can get them in varying tobacco flavors and nicotine strengths;
all the way down to zero nicotine!
Good luck!{{{hugs}}}
PS.
The E-cigs lit tip colors are wild!IP: Logged |
aquaguy91
Moderator Posts: 10398
From: Uranus
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted December 19, 2014 12:14 AM
Get a vape pen! That's what I did.IP: Logged |
Lexxigramer
Moderator Posts: 4404
From: The Etheric Realms...Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat...& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 19, 2014 12:15 AM
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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
Get a vape pen! That's what I did.
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PixieJane
Moderator Posts: 5758
From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted December 19, 2014 12:16 AM
I've known two who said even years after they quit they'd still dream of smoking and sometimes want to light up...but it eventually faded. The key for both of them was to find something else to do when bored and when stressed. These were the two biggest problems but once they made a new habit (which takes awhile to build, you can't just create a habit in a week or even a month) to deal with these aspects of life then it became much easier. They also enjoyed bragging rights on how long it had been since they last lit up. And another observation of mine is that those who are most likely to succeed at quitting are those who don't hang around smokers, at least not until they have it kicked. Frankly, I'd think the monetary value would encourage one to quit as well. I once found the special deals on cigarettes at a store which astounded me (I live in California so they're more expensive here) and asked what the normal prices were...I don't see how many blue collar folk can smoke AND put food on the table and I was told some choose to go without food and other necessities just to keep sucking on a cigarette. Seeing the savings of not smoking (don't forget insurance, damage to property, health care bills, etc) would seem motivation enough to me. ('Course I can say the same thing about alcohol which often includes legal expenses as well and so many other things.) IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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From: Pluto/house next to NickiG
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted December 21, 2014 11:28 AM
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PisceanDream
Knowflake Posts: 1373
From: Here
Registered: Jun 2014
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posted December 21, 2014 05:11 PM
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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
Get a vape pen! That's what I did.
100% agree. It's like a placebo, in a sense. IP: Logged |
sweet-scorpion
Moderator Posts: 2375
From: CO, USA
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted December 22, 2014 11:11 PM
Hey everyone. Thanks for all the encouragements and kind words.  The Virgo in me is paranoid about trying vaping, since I don't know enough about it, and I've heard some negative things. Apparently there is not too much known about its longterm effects [?] and I met someone who said vaping weighed him down and made his chest feel heavy. I don't trust using a vape pen... it sucks. I will be OK, I just need to take the advice to replace the idea that smoking = relaxation with something more lucrative and something far healthier. I really need to learn how to meditate, but my Mars-Mercury makes even sitting still for long periods of time very difficult. Time for a book on tape or a video how-to guide! Lol... if I can keep my attention trained on it long enough. IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 48202
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 23, 2014 11:42 PM
My brother chewed on plastic straws. IP: Logged |
Faith
Knowflake Posts: 9501
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Registered: Jul 2011
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posted December 26, 2014 10:33 AM
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Originally posted by sweet-scorpion:
Does anyone have any success stories or tips to share to curve these psychological cravings? I really do not want to start smoking again. I quit for a second time, and that is enough.
Black coffee? I quit cold turkey many years ago...I've described the process before...I capitalized on my resentment towards a friend of mine who betrayed me. She was a chain smoker and I resolved that I didn't want to be anything like her. Any time I felt like having a cigarette, I thought about how it would make me more like her, and that was extremely off-putting to me. Not everyone has a traitor friend handy to reproduce my "method."  After my resentment wore off, reading health books took over as my main way of dealing with cravings (which lasted over a decade.) But seeing all I had to GAIN by not smoking was helpful... Like my friend smokes and her skin is not as good as mine even though she is younger...she has papery crinkles around the eyes. Sometimes she also smells like cigarettes though I am POSITIVE she doesn't know it, since she has never tolerated smelling any way except clean and freshly-showered. But I think her sense of smell has been affected. But anyway, back to the coffee... When I smoked, it was a ritual of "darkness"...I would honor my darker self, I would invite fire into my heart region to kindle a sense of emotion, I would think of myself as strong because here I was performing a death-defying act. For me, black coffee achieves some of those same objectives. It's even acidifying like smoke, and very hot, so it duplicates that sense of mildly scorching my heart region. And it's black....oh I think I said that before. Well the color black is significant to me...it represents what I am trying to get in touch with. Possibly this is a Scorpio issue...I have an 8H moon and Scorpio NN, plus sun square Pluto. I also eat very dark chocolate...it's blackness hits the spot. So I eat and drink Pluto  instead of smoking it. Which is not ideal when health is my goal, but at least coffee and chocolate have antioxidants and are life-preserving in that way. Good luck 
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aquaguy91
Moderator Posts: 10398
From: Uranus
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted December 26, 2014 09:26 PM
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Originally posted by PisceanDream:
100% agree. It's like a placebo, in a sense.
Not really. You are still getting nicotine and you are inhaling something but it's not nearly as bad for you. IP: Logged |
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