26 years ago I quit smoking I have nightmares where I wake up sweating because I am smoking in my dreams. Anything is better than really smoking. Try to smoke only in your dreams Classicman.
Eat apples or oranges or prunes when you want a cigarette. Walk around the block. Just don't smoke. :eyebrow: |
Once, when I was 4 months non smoking, I dreamed that I was smoking on an elevator! The shame!
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It's easier to kick heroin according to a friend who's done both and still smokes.
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Only because you can buy smokes anywhere. You don't get painful diarreah and vomit for 5 days when you kick cigarettes.
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And cause most bars don't have a dozen or so people shooting up out front, etc, yeah.
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Thanks all...
I'm in the avoidance phase... If it doesn't exist, I'm good. Lets watcha movie - fuckers smoking. Meh, Lets watch some football... My neighbor comes over after obviously just having smoked & sits next to me to watch the game. Really? REALLY? Luv ya bud, but you gotta GTFO. I can't handle it right now. He left. That was awkward. Oh well. Oh, and those electric whatever fake cigarettes.... WORST THINGS EVER. |
Carrot sticks?
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Yuppers, by the dozens. I find myself craving salty snacks too.
I got some veggie sticks. Those are nice as well. Sunflower seeds and mints. All that seems to help keep the oral fixation at bay without being too unhealthy. |
teh smoking IS a bitch; that's the one thing I never got hooked on...everything else, from shopping to demerol-yes. Oh, gambling. I'm AFRAID I'll get hooked so I don't buy those scratch off cards.
It's funny classic----you notice cigs all around you- I notice drinking. Watch one episode of BBT and see how much they drink. It's almost in every scene. It's also put forward as a panacea to every problem; even Raj's problem talking with girls. Penney uses it nearly constantly at work and home. People BOND over alcohol, become friends, intimate, funny, etc. that's the message. I wonder what heroin's message would be? hey, you'll sleep really great for about 15 hours and then wake up having shat your pants and wanting to throw up!! meh. I'm just pissed off because AA isn't working and cannot envision a future and I'm lonely. so. sorry to hijack your thread :( |
I never got addicted to cigarettes. Lucky I suppose.
I can have one or two if I'm offered, but no worries, no craving afterwards. I can happily go outside to get fresh air with someone who wants to smoke and not be tempted to have one. But I dream about drink all the time now. The dreams are shameful. I am drinking neat spirits in a car at lunchtime with a colleague, worrying if I am safe to go back into school. I am drunk at a family funeral and slurring my words as I give a eulogy. I am having a bit of a session in a pub and the fire alarm goes off and I remember I am responsible for my class but I can't find them all because I am drunk. And so on. Addiction, whether medical or psychological is hard to break. Because your brain - the very organ who thinks for you, colludes against you. |
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No one understands that except those of us afflicted---and not always then, either. Sundae---I have those drinking/using dreams too. It's normal. it really, really, really is normal to have those dreams. |
Trill, I am seriously wondering what we here can do to help you. Your posts here and on fb are becoming very worrying. I use the term becoming very loosely. They've been worrying for weeks now.
Your desperation is clearly evident. What can we do? |
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