I'm cigarette free for almost 1 1/2 yrs. The first year was pretty easy - I was SO thrilled to have quit!! I still am thrilled - and so thankful - but it's odd, I've had more cravings this 2nd year than I had the whole first year. I would LOVE to be able to just smoke one cig now and then! But I truly fear that I'd find it much too easy to redevelop the smoking habit. MUST REMEMBER how ENSLAVED I felt, not being able to quit, or even cut down without struggling hard, even though I knew after 47 yrs., those smokes were hurting me....It was such a huge blessing to become "freeatlast"!!
Long time smokers who have been quit for years and years say they still get cravings. My husband's been a nonsmoker for about 12-13 years now (he got lung cancer), and still, every now and then after dinner, he'll say jokingly "Let's have a cigarette!" These days I tell him, if there was a cigarette in the house, I'd smoke it.
Jmitch86, hang in there, be strong. We know that quitting cigs was probably the best thing we've ever done.