# Cigarette cravings **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319 "2001-01-04T00:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/1 "2001-01-04T00:23:27Z")
Resolution smokers don’t read further! It’ll only depress you… I have been smoke-free for 7 years, and still get the most god awful cravings from time to time. Not only that but I sometimes DREAM about smoking and wake up feeling guilty. I have never cheated, and when I have cravings they are strong but (thankfully) brief. Does anyone else still crave like this after so many years? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/2 "2001-01-04T01:36:44Z")
I quit smoking about 7 years ago too. And I still get the most God-awful cravings. Which is probably the biggest reason why I resumed my smoking habit 6 years ago. But at least dealing with the cravings is tolerable now. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/3 "2001-01-04T02:55:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*I quit smoking about 7 years ago too. And I still get the most God-awful cravings. Which is probably the biggest reason why I resumed my smoking habit 6 years ago. But at least dealing with the cravings is tolerable now. \*\* Jack, damn that’s funny! 😃 I quit on March 7th 1997 at 5.30am. The cravings never went away, but the did abate some over time. Certain things would trigger a craving…talking on the phone, long car rides, big meals. It took _months_ before I could pick up a phone without reaching for a smoke. I started again this past June and plan to quit again by March. I am not looking forward to going through all that again. And thanks for letting me know that even after seven years it won’t end. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/4 "2001-01-04T12:35:03Z")
I do not experience cravings. But I still drool when I smell a freshly lit Marlboro. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/5 "2001-01-04T13:02:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anonymous Coward \* > > I have been smoke-free for 7 years, and still get the most god awful cravings from time to time. Not only that but I sometimes DREAM about smoking and wake up feeling guilty. I have never cheated, and when I have cravings they are strong but (thankfully) brief. I’m with you on yhat one Coward. I’m going on two years and some of my most vivid dreams are of smoking. I wake up from them pissed that I gave in. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/6 "2001-01-04T20:13:31Z")
after 26 years of 2 packs a day. And I get virtually no cravings, apart from an instant here or there. It can be done, folks. It’s all about your mindset… (And I am not crediting myself, just the source I used for quitting) stoid ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/7 "2001-01-04T20:51:36Z")
Bad Jack, NO biscuit! I quit a 20+ year habit ‘cold turkey’ 13+ years ago after a friend of mine died of throat cancer. I was a 3+ pack-a-day smoker. In my case, the _serious_ cravings lasted three to four years, diminishing over time. I still get an occasional craving, but it’s nothing I can’t handle. I had a dream about a month ago where I lit up a cigarette, but I hadn’t had one (the dream) for a year before that. I guess what we’re all telling you is, YMMV, but if you’ve gone 7 years, you **know** you can do it. It just gets easier from here on. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-cravings/48319/8 "2001-01-04T22:05:19Z")
I remember my friend telling me about her husband. He quit smoking about 10 years before he died, and I guess he craved a cigarette everyday for the rest of his life. He didn’t die of smoking related causes. I wonder if he would have quit if he’d known he only had 10 years left anyway.