I am really badly hanging out for a fag at the moment. It’s been nigh on three months without a serious craving or any mad scramble to hunt down the but-ends on the street etc…
But for some reason, tonight, without any major stressors or triggers, I am so badly craving that I am almost tempted to head off to the shop to buy a pack.
Save me from myself, oh righteous Dopers. Lead me away from temptation, and deliver me from nicotine.
Don’t do IT!
Meh, I can’t now…you took so long with your supportive reply that all my local shops have since closed.
Thanks fer’ nothing!
Well, maybe you could go and NOT scavenge butts from the gutters.
You need to put up a positive resistance.
The craving is that “door” which opens and can never be closed.
Good on you for continuing to fight it.
So many of my patients (IANAD) who have stopped, start again because of the smell on someone else’s clothes or from a room recently occupied by a smoker.
Treat it as an allergy.
Quasi
Just my luck that I live in a non-smoking AND non-littering street innit?
Interestingly enough, I spent a few hours yesterday in the intimate presence of heavy smokers and didn’t have one iota of a whiff of a craving.
Today though, urgghhh. I must go to bed now to avert the temptation.
But before you do, reflect on the fact that even the worst cravings weren’t beyond your ability to resist. Well done.
Yes. If this is as bad as it gets every three months or so, you won’t have any problems.
Think of all the money you are saving by not buying drugs.
Spend time deciding what to spend it on.
Would it help to know I’m jealous?
I have no damn will power and I applaud yours!
Alcohol perhaps?
What about knitting? I hear that part of the allure of smoking is that it gives you something to do with your hands. Take up knitting and you won’t ever crave another fag. I’d like an “SDMB” scarf please.
Coffee!
LOTS O COFFEE!
Either that or become an amateur pro masturbator.
Don’t know what to say, except to send supporting thoughts your way! I hope you concur your craving!
Yes well, my wife has friends who are into some kind of online swinging! I think knitting would be more appropriate.
Knitting is the new smoking. All the cool kids are doing it! ( and it doesn’t stink.)
I don’t usually post to correct my typos - lordy, that would be a damn-near full time job.
But I just can’t let this one go: I want you to conquer your craving as in * to gain mastery over or win by overcoming obstacles or opposition*
I don’t want you to concur it. 
Good on ya for resisting the craving!
Take the money you don’t spend on smoking, stuff it in a piggybank, and go to someplace foreign and friendly in a year. When my dad was moving, we did a budget, and discovered that he was spending $250 a month on smoking. Over a year, that adds to a nice little holiday!
And there’s nothing wrong with knitting either.
Don’t do it! You’ll think, “Oh, just one cigarette after three months won’t hurt anything!” But it will – you’ll feel ashamed and dirty and weak and worthless afterward, and you’ll be horribly disappointed in yourself.
I’m not being facetious – that’s how I felt. It was awful.