I do! Frustrating it is. Every time I smell someone smoking these days I want one too. Would be so easy to bum one. But then what? I'd have to quit all over again. Probably not worth it.
Who still craves a cigarette?
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Every now and then I do get the urge to smoke. All I do is pick up my mod and make the biggest cloud I can make and then I am fine after that.
I get a craving once in a while, and it will be around for a day or two and then go away. I'm around smokers at work and could easily bum one as well. I just remember what smoking cost me health-wise and my commitment not to be a smoker and take a pass on the urge.
Know how it feels I fight it on a daily basis both people I work with smoke around me all day. Just pick up your device and vape some more and it will pass. At least with vaping the urge to do it is alot less than other "approved" methods of quitting. I've been analog free for 6 months now and still wonder if the urge will go away. But then agian with the way I feel I am not going back so don't really care.
After vaping enough to get a sense of smell back (less than a year) cigarettes smell digusting
I find that when depression strikes and the world seems to be full of <moderated> that's when I want to smoke the most.. I mean, cigarettes are pretty much the slowest way to kill yourself there is. BUT, I remember that these feelings will pass and just vape until the urge subsides. But they are definitely still there..
My husband still smokes and in the house (ugh) so I am around it all the time. The only time I give it a second thought is when I have a glass of wine or when I am run down. I guess my defences must be down or something. I have been smoke free for two years so I normally just shake my head and move on and that urge passes pretty quickly.
Don't crave cigarettes at all anymore, my wife smokes, every times she comes in after smoking I can smell burnt tar for half an hour, makes me want to stay away even more :X
Not once in the 6 years since I started vaping. The smell of burning death makes me feel slightly unwell.
I sometimes miss the convenience of cigarettes. When I'm really stressed out, it would be so easy to light up and get relief with all that nicotine(and other chemicals). But I worked too hard to get where I am. I feel so much better and I do not wish to backtrack.
I have one about once a month, or a half cig anyway, but never really know if I'll ever have one again. It is possible you can't have just one and then you'd "need to quit all over again". If I didn't have one for the last 6 months, I might fear that's true of me too, but having some experience in it, not so worried. I find the actual cig good, aftertaste bad, but the most noticable thing is the cig doesn't last long. It reminds me of the constant effort to smoke less, back when I was doing that.
I crave it sometimes but I like not smelling like a cigarette way more. That's enough to send me to a setup I have with the closest feeling to actual smoking and I'm good again. (For me it's Americano by Mountain Oak that sends the craving away.
cigarettes anonymous thread 
i'm going to try to say this with out glorifying smoke.
i crave them and sometimes when im on the sauce i'll have one or three lol. bottom line, they aren't as satisfying or pleasurable as when i was on a pack a day. after a cigarette i normally regret it immediately.
anyway, let's all hold hands and say the serenity prayer
i'm going to try to say this with out glorifying smoke.
i crave them and sometimes when im on the sauce i'll have one or three lol. bottom line, they aren't as satisfying or pleasurable as when i was on a pack a day. after a cigarette i normally regret it immediately.
anyway, let's all hold hands and say the serenity prayer
My husband worked with a few fellows that hadn't smoked in 40 something years...they claimed they still craved a cig from time to time. With that in mind, i've kinda come to expect it's something that never really ever goes away.
Even after over 4 years of being smoke free, the thought flits across my mind from time to time. Fortunately for me it isn't the same as the one time I quit smoking for 6 months. Not a single moment of a singe day of that 6 months did I not crave a smoke. I finally gave in to it and decided I would not put myself through that for the rest of my life and went back to full time smoking. Other times I would quit for a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, one time even 5 weeks but always went back. Cold turkey or patches. Neither worked for me. I even tried doubling up on patches and still smoked while wearing them. What a waste of money 
Fast forward to November 13th, 2011-- I haven't had a smoke since the day I came home from the smoke store with my usual 2 cartons of smokes and a little thing called a nic-stic. Hubby both smokes and vapes but has cut down from 2 to 3 packs a day to less than a pack a day. He doesn't smoke in the house. Neither of us ever smoked in here. we did in the old house but when we built this one we decided that we wouldn't ruin it by smoking in it. We both vape in here though.
I have read several posts here on the forum where folks do try one after being smoke free for a long while and they just tasted gross. Maybe that would work for you. I personally don't want to even do that though. Those things had me for 45 years. I fear that they would get their hooks back into me. When the thoughts started coming more often I raised the strength of my nicotine. I had gotten down to 10mg, even 6 in some of my mixes. I went back to 12 and even keep some 16 around for those times I feel I need it. I make my own so the adjustments are easy for me. If the urges are to strong maybe you need to do the same.
Fast forward to November 13th, 2011-- I haven't had a smoke since the day I came home from the smoke store with my usual 2 cartons of smokes and a little thing called a nic-stic. Hubby both smokes and vapes but has cut down from 2 to 3 packs a day to less than a pack a day. He doesn't smoke in the house. Neither of us ever smoked in here. we did in the old house but when we built this one we decided that we wouldn't ruin it by smoking in it. We both vape in here though.
I have read several posts here on the forum where folks do try one after being smoke free for a long while and they just tasted gross. Maybe that would work for you. I personally don't want to even do that though. Those things had me for 45 years. I fear that they would get their hooks back into me. When the thoughts started coming more often I raised the strength of my nicotine. I had gotten down to 10mg, even 6 in some of my mixes. I went back to 12 and even keep some 16 around for those times I feel I need it. I make my own so the adjustments are easy for me. If the urges are to strong maybe you need to do the same.
I am on day two of not smoking. I think the "idea" of not smoking is the worst. If I give in to one, it will definitely lead to another, etc. so I have a mind-set not to even have a drag (I smoked pipe). Been smoking for 55 years and have COPD so I NEED to stop smoking. I have tried to control the key triggers to smoke and stay away from those situations. I think the initial 3-5 days are going to be the hardest for me. Will try to hang in there. This forum is what motivates me and reading other posts from people that are having a difficult time quitting.
i've been smoking for 15 years (i admit i'll have one or two a week on avg to date) and when i started vaping last May i told myself i wasn't going to limit the cigarettes i smoked (with the intention of quitting in the back of my head) because i didn't want to make an unreasonable goal for myself.
it became very easy not to smoke as much and inadvertently tapering down from 20 to 3 or 4. then 1 or 2 a day, eventually one every few days. there is still a special place for tobacco in my heart (it might just be atherosclerosis though lol) but because my love affair with vaping, i fell ON the wagon with cigarettes and now they just don't taste as good as they should; which is great for my health, kind of pisses my psyche off. fair trade though.
it became very easy not to smoke as much and inadvertently tapering down from 20 to 3 or 4. then 1 or 2 a day, eventually one every few days. there is still a special place for tobacco in my heart (it might just be atherosclerosis though lol) but because my love affair with vaping, i fell ON the wagon with cigarettes and now they just don't taste as good as they should; which is great for my health, kind of pisses my psyche off. fair trade though.
Same here. I can smell my wife from 10 feet away after she come in for a smoke. No longer appealing to me at all. Smoking, not my wife.
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