Do the cravings ever go away?

[b.m.]

The funny thing is I still enjoy the smell of a lit cigarette. The great thing is it has no power over me now

That's where i am with it.My wife still smokes,and i like the smell from a bit of a distance,if i get too close it is overpowering and doesn't smell so great anymore haha.
I went my first 4 months of vaping,and never got 1 craving,then i dropped my nic from 24mg to 18mg and the cravings were horrible for about a week.Since then though,i never get them anymore.

 

[HauntedMyst]

I get more cravings for pipes than cigs. As great as stainless steel mods are for looking at and nothing, nothing beats a nice briar pipe for the experience. Briar is one of the most beautiful woods. Used pipes don't smell stale, they retain the best qualities of the pipe smell.

 

[mattiem]

I smoked for 45 years, have been vaping for 4 1/2 years. I guess I am fortunate because I've not had any cravings at all. I was a smoker one day and smoke free the next. I do get fleeting thoughts occasionally though. It is not a craving. It is just wondering how one of my Misty Menthol 120's would taste after all this time. Guess I will never know

 

[b.m.]

It is just wondering how one of my Misty Menthol 120's would taste after all this time. Guess I will never know

I can tell you from experience,the way your cigarettes tasted for all those years is not what you would experience now.I had only been vaping and off cigarettes for a few weeks,and my ego broke in my pocket while at work,so i had to bum a few cigarettes from a coworker to get me through the day.He smoked the same brand i had been using for 20 years.All that time i never really got any bad taste from them,but after just a few weeks of not smoking,they were the most foul thing i have ever tasted.

 

[VHRB2014]

I noticed I was getting less and less emotional about the cravings at about a year. Seeing smoking in public and on media was no longer having that deep emotional impact it had had on me for the first year. Now at two years, it is GONE, totally GONE. I can see a smoker in the wild, or on TV, and the only feeling I get is for the person doing it, a sad foreboding feeling, like seeing a junky fix.

 

[englishmick]

I can remember the cravings early on, mostly in moments of stress. Don't think I've had that for quite a while. I can't even remember when they stopped happening.

 

[Vandal]

I had read that it was possible to go through some withdrawal from the chemicals in burning tobacco, and I think I did a bit, for 2-3 weeks or so. But I knew as long as I had my nicotine, I would be fine. It was nothing compared to the nicotine withdrawal I went through when I tried cutting back on cigarettes once. What a nightmare that was.

I don't think I've had any real cravings for cigarettes, though I do love the smell of the smoke when someone walks by with one. My sister is the same way, and she quit smoking many years ago (long before there was vaping).

I think the closest I come is when I'm not getting a satisfactory throat hit on my vaping device. TH seems to be a huge part of the process for me. But I had not been satisfied with the taste or smell of cigarettes for many years. I was just a slave to them even though I hated them, and that seems to stay with me.

 

[gingertalk196]

Hmmm, I think I am finally over it. Didn't actually realize it till I began typing this after reading everyone's responses. The first year was probably the hardest and I never thought I would make it through that but I did. Subsequently, the cravings got fewer and fewer and with vaping it was nothing I couldn't handle. Been vaping almost 3 years come this summer.

 

[cocacola31173]

I kept a cig a like around with a heavy nic for the first few months. This was mainly for when my kids stressed me out. The hardest was the after dinner smoke. But after a while that went away as well.

Now I am at 2 mg of nic and haven't had a nic craving in over a year. I vape cause I want to...not because I have to. LOVE IT!

 

[rice721]

once an addict always an addict, some people are more prone to addiction than others.

 

[Saintskinny51792]

once an addict always an addict, some people are more prone to addiction than others.

SO TRUE! My parents both had addiction going wayy back into the gene pool... My Mom always said "Your'e genetically screwed" when it came to addiction... she was right... boy was she right.

 

[b.m.]

The hardest was the after dinner smoke. But after a while that went away as well.

My hardest was that first one in the morning.For the first week,it was horrible waking up and not lighting a cigarette,but instead puffing on that little ego haha.After about a week,it was fine,but those first few days were horrible,after getting past that initial part of the day,the rest was fine until the next morning.

 

[CountBoredom]

After two years being smoke-free, I don't really experience too many cravings (outside of going out drinking), but I've found from time to time that I have dreams in which I still smoke. It doesn't freak me out when I wake up, though, nor do I find myself reaching for my vape to fight the memory of the dream. I guess it's just one of those things...

 

[b.m.]

After two years being smoke-free, I don't really experience too many cravings (outside of going out drinking), but I've found from time to time that I have dreams in which I still smoke. It doesn't freak me out when I wake up, though, nor do I find myself reaching for my vape to fight the memory of the dream. I guess it's just one of those things...

Yeah,after around a year,i didn't get any more cravings,but i can definitely relate to those dreams.For me,i think maybe i'm smelling my wife's cigarette if she walks in the room while i'm still sleeping,and maybe the smell is triggering them haha.

 

[mightymen]

I got two bad cravings during first and second years. Up the nicotine content for a week and they left. Somewhere after the two years mark all cravings left. Now I vape because I want to.