I’m so fucking irritable right now, every little thing is annoying me and my chest is tight, I keep clenching my teeth. I’m very familiar with these things, these are how my body is telling me “go smoke a ciggy”

Problem is, I haven’t done that for a year and a half. I’ve had this happen before, sometimes years on into my quittings, its always random and it’s always insufferable, like I’m a former psychonaut who accidentally cracked his spine 20 years later. Does this happen to anyone else out there? Any tips? I had a glass of wine but it didn’t help take the edge off much

    • @yokonzo@lemmy.worldOP
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      31 year ago

      Interesting, also I learned a new word (contraindications: something that makes taking a drug inadvisable)

  • @7u5k3n@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    An ex of mine would only smoke when she was drinking.

    Nothing better with your 3rd beer than a cigarette… Apparently.

    If she didn’t have that 3rd beer. She’d never drink.

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍
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    51 year ago

    i often have cravings, especially when i’m angry or drinking beer, then i remembering myself how double hangover feels like and whole this stench

  • @rowinxavier@lemmy.world
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    I did in the first 3 or so years, but now I don’t have any cravings at all. I’m now 17 years on from quitting and it has gotten better over time.

    I found spite a great tool for keeping emotional investment. The tobacco companies are all steeped in slavery, abuse, scientific fraud, and general indifference to the suffering of others. Those companies are trying very hard to get kids addicted, to insulate themselves from legal accountability, and to stop governments from phasing smoking out. They are evil if that word is going to mean anything and if I am going to be able to do anything about them it is withholding my business.

    • @HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      Weird. I loved the taste. Even a decade after I quit for good, I still love the smell. I don’t get the cravings at all though.

  • I quit Easter Sunday, 1996. I don’t have any cravings when I’m awake, but I have dreams where I’m pulling a packet of cigarettes from my pocket, buying cigarettes, smoking, noticing that I only have a few left in my packet. Something’s going on subconsciously, not sure if it’s cravings or something else.

    • I have dreams like this too. In mine, I’ve always been coerced by friends to “just have 1” and then I do and I feel really guilty about it. Then I wake up feeling guilty for something I didn’t even do. I’m glad it’s only happening in my dreams!

  • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    It gets less and less but will never go away. The frequency and intensity of craving diminish, but it can still sneak up on you.

    I had one occasion where I spent some time in a smoky environment, and didn’t smoke myself. Next day the cravings where back full blow, through secondary smoke.

    So what I do now if I get cravings is think back to how long ago it’s been since I’ve had them, is nice to feel those horrible clutches lose their grasp over you. It does take dedication and time though and you’re never truly free of them.

  • @mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I do, the longer it’s been the shorter they are (almost 10 years now). My trigger is seeing someone, usually in a TV or movie, take that long, exaggerated drag.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      Oooh. That’s a big one. I’ll be fine and suddenly halfway through a movie: “Smoke break?”

  • @dracs@programming.dev
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    11 year ago

    I quit more than a decade ago now. I still occasionally get a craving for one. I don’t get the same physically reactions that you listed. Mostly get the cravings when I’m stressed.

  • My grandfather quit smoking after 70 years (he started when he was 6) and lived another 30 years. Apparently he would dream about smoking till he died, and they never smelled nasty to him.

  • Bizzle
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    71 year ago

    Alright so I quit vaping the Easy Way, and they explained to me that nicotine withdrawals are pretty much entirely psychological. It’s the “I want a vape, I can’t have one, AHHHHH!” feeling. Once you realize that you actually don’t want a vape because it does absolutely nothing for you and is complete waste of time, money, and energy, you won’t get irritable because you don’t want to vape. The physical withdrawal symptom- there is just one- is just an empty hungry feeling, and it goes away entirely after about 72 hours.

  • @Octothorpidiot@lemmy.world
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    Quit cold turkey in 2017 after 30 years of pack a day. More if drinking. Tried vaping, just ended up being a way to smoke more.Got a gnarly case of pneumonia and wadded up everything I had left for smoking and threw it all in the trash. No cravings anymore but I still dream about it.

    • @yokonzo@lemmy.worldOP
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      I feel that, 2015 or so when I was about 21 I got a spontaneous pneumothorax (basically a popped lung) everyone has these weak spots on their lungs called blebs, but I had just the right mixture, being white, being tall, being skinny, being male, and being a smoker, to be high risk for those blebs getting too weak and rupturing. Literally happened 3 times before in a row due to complications and my dumb ass still went back to vaping a year or so later. Did stop smoking pot though, so that’s something.

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    Not random moments, but intense anxiety is a trigger decades later. And it’s not just traumatic stuff, but positive anxiety like first dates.