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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNext month will be 31 years since I quit smoking. Last night I dreamed I was smoking.
I'm still dreaming about it. Go figure.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)But it's only been about 15 years since I quit.
I just had a dream about it last week - and, as usual, I was incredibly relieved when I realized it was a dream.
Subconscious is a weird thing.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I quite for the 2nd time in December and I'm getting the dreams again too. That damn little devil never dies, he just goes into hiding!
a kennedy
(29,606 posts)And I do miss it terribly...... But I know that if I EVER have a drag of a cigarette I'd start again. But what's funny is... I can smoke joints and not even think about a regular cigarette. I only smoke the MJ about once a month or so......
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)And the urge still pops up from time to time.....Even though I chew about 10 pieces of Nicorette a day.....I like what Nicotine does for my Brain......
whistler162
(11,155 posts)burned half way down.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Skittles
(153,104 posts)it lurks, waiting to pounce
sounds like you've done a terrific job denying it its jollies
rurallib
(62,373 posts)The one where we start smoking again.
For some it is quite vivid and real. It (was) is for me.
When I first quit I had it at a frequency of about once a month. It eventually tapered off to the point where I think it has been over a year.
- It was always the same dream almost in every detail and I would always wake up in a cold sweat, having returned to smoking.
I quite nearly 40 years ago. Everyone I have ever talked to who has quit remembers some form of the 'starting again' dream.
madamesilverspurs
(15,798 posts)Dreams now and then. And there are times, like when I'm really tired, when the phone ringing has one hand looking for the cigs while the other goes for the phone.
a kennedy
(29,606 posts)And he NEVER smoked. I think about smoking a lot...... D*mn.
Crewleader
(17,005 posts)I quit in 92' so that makes it 22 years for me.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Because I did a gradual taper-off method, I had almost no nicotine in my system when I quit, had no cravings after I did, forgot I ever smoked in a couple of weeks.
Cigarette smoke repulses me now, and has for a long time. I so rarely encounter it that I am shocked when I do. No attraction for me, whatsoever.
bluesbassman
(19,358 posts)Sometimes spontaneous combustion follows smoking.
Congrats on being smoke free all these years!