(April 10, 2014 at 3:34 pm)DarkHorse Wrote: It's been more than a year since I had my last cigarette. I still got the occasional craving from time to time, especially during moments of stress or sadness. Other times it came from standing with a smoker and having a drink. It never lasts very long though. Until about two days ago. It's constant, and I feel I'm going crazy. It's such a battle. I never thought it would be this bad again. Especially not after such a long time. My life is all over the place at the moment, big changes and decisions I need to make, so that fact's making it 100 times worse.
Does anyone know of any healthier alternatives? I even thought of a cigar, but that's basically the same thing, and I've heard is actually worse. Gum, food, etc doesn't help. I thought of electronic cigarettes, but as I'm not addicted to nicotine anymore, and it's all a mind thing now, I'm afraid I become addicted to the nicotine in that thing, lol.
Also, if anyone else here has been an ex smoker for longer than a year, please tell me if this is normal?
I've done exactly what you're doing now and it made me start smoking again. I looked for any excuse to smoke something again and I bought a hookah (big pipe oriental pipe thing) and smoked that but then I got drunk while smoking it and in the end just thought fuck this and then started smoking again.
I tried so many things like only smoking while drunk or just smoking weed or whatever but then I realized the bottom line was that I just needed to quit.
I haven't smoked anything for 4 years or so now and I won't even touch the vaporizers that have just come out either. I've vowed to never smoke anything ever again.
I don't really have any advice except for DON'T FUCKING SMOKE ANYTHING, nothing, whatsoever.
It's a ridiculously difficult challenge of will power but you will feel better each year that goes by that you haven't smoked.
Some things that helped me was watching documentaries about drug addiction, think about how bad some people smell after smoking especially in damp weather.
Do anything to distract yourself even if you have to just masturbate, go online and argue, rabidly play computer games over and over.
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