Smoke?

[anomie]

No way. But I tried to start several times in college. (About 80% of my girl friends in college smoked.) Yet, never got hooked.

Must be genetic. You're a smoker or you aren't.

[AndrewB]

No way. But I tried to start several times in college. (About 80% of my girl friends in college smoked.) Yet, never got hooked.

Must be genetic. You're a smoker or you aren't.

I think it applys as follows,
your physical cravings las t ~2days
mentally is what gets u hooked

[loft306]

yeah an adiction is a mental craving of a a physical desire..... used to smoke and chew but still only chew......

[Dapper Dan]

I think it applys as follows,
your physical cravings las t ~2days
mentally is what gets u hooked

As a long time smoker who has been quit for over 10 years, I disagree. The physical cravings for nicotine are horrendous and can last many months and sometimes over a year. Nicotine craving is very painful. It is as if every cell in your body cries with agony. Just one cigarette will make the pain go away. It's so easy to say to yourself, "nothing is worth this!" and yield to smoking a cigarette to make it go away. When I quit, the pain stayed with me for several months. It comes intermittently with a sudden powerful jab. It is not all in your mind. It is a very real addiction to a highly addictive substance. Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever did.

[smolloy]

As a long time smoker who has been quit for over 10 years, I disagree. The physical cravings for nicotine are horrendous and can last many months and sometimes over a year. Nicotine craving is very painful. It is as if every cell in your body cries with agony. Just one cigarette will make the pain go away. It's so easy to say to yourself, "nothing is worth this!" and yield to smoking a cigarette to make it go away. When I quit, the pain stayed with me for several months. It comes intermittently with a sudden powerful jab. It is not all in your mind. It is a very real addiction to a highly addictive substance. Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever did.

Your experience was quite different from mine. For me the physical withdrawl peaked at about ten days after quitting, and the pangs fell away after about 3 weeks. During that time my lungs felt very constricted in a way I knew would be relieved by smoking, I had headaches, and I was moody and generally unpleasant to be around. But after that first month I was only left with the psychological addiction, and the memory my body has of how relaxing it was to smoke.

It's amazingly hard to break the psychological addiction, and even today, the first thing I do when I start my car is wind down the window -- just as if I was gonna light a cigarette!

Sometimes I wish I had never started, but at least I can tell my future kids with authority that they are dumb to even think about starting.

[Dapper Dan]

Hi smolloy,
Your experience sounds like mine the FIRST time I tried to quit. The hell of it is, with each cycle of quitting, it gets much harder the next time around. I tried unsuccessfully to quit five or six times before I was able to for good. That last time was murder!

[George Harrison]

hmm.. this thread has changed my thinking a bit.. I stopped smoking, and will continue this sobreity for at least for a few months. After smoking heavily for a few months I'm going to slow down. OK, well I am broke, but yeah the thread helped and stuff.

I've never smoked a cig and I don't plan on doing so, but really quitting weed can seem both easy and difficult. The first two or three days of sobreity sucked. I was always in two moods: pissy and cheery, the moods changed many times throughout a given day, it was weird. No real urges but it made me feel weird.. like it was sitting in my head and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Especially if it's in a boring setting (the post office was hell today).

Well, it's been almost a week. I plan on going for at least a month or two. I will say that my lungs are feeling nice and I might be able to jog if I had any motivation to do so.