Do cigarette cravings ever go away?

Question

I haven't smoked for over 2 and a half years... and it wasn't really the nicotine that i was addicted to.. more the motion ... the rolling it and the motions of inhaling it.

I STILL... get the urge to do that. I just want to sit down with a cigarette and relax.....

I bought a packet the other day and just sat there rolling them for my friend because i just HAD to..

Does it ever go away?

WONDERFUL....

Answer 1

They do after a while of not smoking

Answer 2

I think it involves a big, really big unlearning process. The drug (nicotine) addiction part goes away pretty quickly and without much pain. The real problem is to unlearn a habit which was ingrained by repeating it 20-40 times a day for 40 years in my case! The moot question is --- how much time will it take to completely unlearn the habit? The answer is --- perhaps more than my life time. The saving grace is that the pain reduces exponentially --- it becomes insignificant in less than 2 percent of your smoking years. But it will never become zero. And you have to pass through each connection to break it (or weaken it) I hate the day I smoked my first cigarette. Now I have only two choices--- be a smoker OR an ex-smoker. And an ex-smoker is a different animal than a non-smoker--- unfortunately. Hari Misra

Answer 3

I haven't smoked for six years, and still I get a craving, but as was said above, it's a nostalgic type craving I get for the holding and smell of a cigarette, especially when i'm having a cup of tea and reading a book (god I used to love that).

You will yearn, but you will also come around to the fact that you gained nothing from it. I have moments of weakness, but then I realise, I don't want to get ill from something that I need not have done!.

Answer 4

January 1971 was my last cigarette. I can't stand the smell of them as they affect
the asthma. The funny thing is that for years I have had dreams that I was smoking and woke up feeling guilty. Strange things can happen; but don't give in
as you have WON THE BATTLE!! YEAHHHHHH!! Don't allow temptation to have
you rolling cigarettes for someone else. That is a big temptation. Take care, friend, you can do it!!

Answer 5

I 'm in year 8 of not smoking, afterover 55 years and, yes, the craving to smoke does go - well it has for me.
But I still miss the rituals of rolling my own fags and of filling my pipe - that part has been has been every bit as hard as stopping smoking iteslf.

Answer 6

No because smoking becomes part of your subconscious, hence people still dream about smoking years after they quit. Just keep ticking off the years since you last had a cigarette.

Answer 7

Its been 6 years for me and every now and then I get the urge, but then I think about the misery it was to smoke and the urge goes away.

Answer 8

agreed.

I haven't smoked for maybe 4 or 5 years...and I still get the urge.

but I've never given into it. And most of the time I'm repulsed by smoking. It certainly is strange...

Answer 9

I wouldn't know,don't mean to offend you but i hate the very sight of cigarettes and the ugly disgusting smoke that comes with them. But to answer your question, I think that if you put your mind and soul into the "giving up" of cigarettes then you can probably do it.

Answer 10

I have been a non smoker for 11 years now and I will still dream that I smoke...and that I am hiding...its funny the cravings go away for awhile but them come back now and then especially when I have the notion to drink....

Answer 11

Yer asking the wrong guy. I've been smoking like a fish for 34 yrs.