why do i feel withdrawals for nicotine(cigarettes) in library stronger than any other place???

Question

is there any link between smell of books and marlboro lights lol?

i feel like there is some smell which makes my withdrowls worse

you cant be bored in library

Answer 1

Have to agree with Cram1313, I was thinking along the lines of the smell of the books but it is more than likely because you are bored, and when smokers have nothing else to do they often smoke...

Answer 2

There is nothing like a smoke when reading a good book. That is the reason, I think.

I smoked for almost 40 years about 20 a day and I stopped two years ago. If I did it you will too. The urge to smoke is 95% psychological and 5% the need for nicotine. If you were stranded on a desert island without cigarettes you would NOT freak out... You would accept the fact that you had no cigaretts and you would get on with life -- the 95 I mentioned. If only people realised this they would stop with no difficulty. I was amazed how easy it was. Take it from me... you are and feel a totally different person the moment youi stop smoking.

Answer 3

Interesting question! Perhaps there's a psychological reason that you feel the withdrawls of nicotine more so in a library than anywhere else. Are you accustomed to smoking cigarettes while reading a good book? If you have created this link in your mind to books and smoking, being in a library, surrounded by books may make you want a cigarette. What does a library mean to you? Is it a place of relaxtion? Meditation? Since smoking is also used to relax and meditate, maybe there's a corelation.

Now for an off-the wall PHYSICAL explanation. I notice that when I'm in a libary, I get very thirsy. I believe the reason is that the air is usually more dry in a library because all of the paper products absorb moisture; and typically, you don't have wide-open windows in places like that. Cigarettes contain chemicals that also make a person thirsty. They can dry your system out. Perhaps, when you're in a place that's dry--you equate that to the feeling you feel when you've smoked a cigarette.

Answer 4

You are picking up the smell of smoke from the pages of the books you are looking at. I have a good nose and can tell if I'm smelling cigarette or pipe tobacco. Makes you think, there you are sitting reading and the last person to use this book probably sat on the toilet smoking whilst reading it????? Now wash your hands

Answer 5

The correct answer is that people have been smoking around all those books they've checked out over the years and had in their houses, their studies and their offices, and you're smelling the stale smoke and nicotine, so it triggers a nicotine fit in you. It's that physically simple.

Answer 6

I agree with Blazergirl, you know you can't smoke so you want to more than if you were in a place you could smoke and also agree the smell of the paper in the books is part also.

Answer 7

I visit the elderly where ever they happen to live in my job. Some of their neighbors seem to watch me or be hostile to me if I don't fit with the neighborhood I am visiting. Once they understand I am there for a good reason, it has been fine. Some pretty tense moments, though!

Answer 8

Maybe because you know you can not smoke in the library makes you want to smoke more. Just knowing that could trigger something in you to desire it more

Answer 9

Spending anytime at all among shelves of books almost always triggers a bowel movement. Its a phenomenon I've experienced all my life. Trouble is...I love books.

Answer 10

I quiet places you have stronger urges because there is nothing there to distract you. Try chewing mint gum. I have been 6 weeks on AUG 7 with out a cig

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