Any Quitters Dreaming of Smoking?

[Hoosier Mama?]

I don't know why I should know how many, but the other night I dreamed of smoking three cigarettes. My last cig was on Jan. 9th, and so I thought I was well past thinking about them so much.

It was a very real dream too...I woke up feeling as if I had cheated.:rolleyes: Now I'm finding that I keep thinking about that dream, and the urge to smoke is stronger than it has been in quite awhile.

I know I'll bust past this...it's just a little unsettling.

I guess my 'dream-self' didn't get the memo.

[teddiebears]

Congratulations on almost 3 months smoke-free!:D

I understand that a lot of people tend to dream about smoking when they are quitting. I have been quit for 12 years and 4 months now. I think it may be that a person's subconscious helps them work through some of the stress by having dreams about smoking.... Just my opinion. ;)

When I first quit smoking I never had any dreams about smoking at all. To be honest, I really didn't think about smoking all that much - awake or asleep!! ;) lol

They often say that around the 3 months mark a person might begin to have more cravings again or more thoughts (or dreams) about smoking or what they 'think' they're missing. It sometimes happens again around 6 months.

Edited to add: I meant to tell you that I have - just recently (in the past 5-6 months) - experienced a vivid dream of me smoking. It was weird and it really felt inappropriate. I didn't wake up feeling that I was 'missing' anything though to not be smoking anymore - I just woke feeling very perplexed that after all these years I would finally have that kind of dream. ?????

[Pamster]

I sometimes still dream about smoking and I know that feeling of waking up like you'd cheated...It's like it feel so real you feel the cravings again deeply rooting in your mind, you just have to fight it and remind yourself of how good you feel without them and find things to keep your hands busy. That's what I did to overcome it and it's going on my second year of being smoke free. So glad you quit Hoosier Mama, good for you! :D

[Hoosier Mama?]

Thanks for your replies and encouragements. :) It sounds like periods of increased cravings are relatively common among us quitters then...and apparently it rears its ugly head, even 12+ yrs. down the road.

That's interesting information about the three-month and six-month mark, teddiebears. I would have to say I believe it's true, based on my own experience so far. And it's good ammo for a quitter to have, because then they can at least be somewhat prepared for when it happens.

It didn't help matters much that at the same time I had this dream, my son found an old, unopened pack of my cigarettes that I didn't know was still in the house. He promptly proceeded to crush them with his bicycle....good boy! :cool:

And congratulations to you both for choosing to not smoke....May we all live to be 100!

[marijo]

I am three years down the no smoking road. I have not touched a ciggy since the day I stopped after having smoked for over 30 years, and tried every trick in the book to pack it in. Finally I went on a one day course, not really hypnotherapy, but a case of reprogramming the brain, so that I had some very good logical reasons not to smoke. However, most days I get a cig. moment. However I can see it for what it is. It passess pretty quickly. Its like a horse galloping at me, on a beach. (that is the cig, moment) At the precise instant that I think the horse is going to hit me full on, I step aside, and wide of the horse. and the horse passes by and misses me. That is how I deal with the urges. Well done you to get this far. I can tell you I do not feel a bit smug for getting through 3 years, because I know I am always at risk, but the longer I go, the better I feel about myself.

[Pamster]

That's a great way to look at it marijo. Thanks for sharing that analogy, that is about how I deal with it too. Going on two years, I smoked for a long time off and on, quitting when I was pregnant and nursing my son for about three years and then I went back, quit again and then went back and finally this time quit again. :)

I have a small cold right now and have been coughing up nasty stuff but it's really NICE to see it's not brown and yucky like what I used to cough up. Anytime I feel weak I just remember how my lungs felt when I used to see the nastier yucky stuff in the sink and I feel my resolve strengthen again. Hehehe. ;)

[Rozia]

Any Drinkers thinking about quitting . Alcohol kills too . Remember that

[Mudge]

Any Drinkers thinking about quitting . Alcohol kills too . Remember that

There are two forums actually, out on the main list. :)

[Jim59]

I quit in 1987 and for the first ten years or so I thought, would dream, and missed it all the time, but for me somewhere around year ten or so something happen. Whenever I walked through others smoke I became almost ill and totally repulsed by it. After that I never thought about it again. I'm just grateful I was able to free myself from my three pack a day addiction. Good luck and great results for everyone!!
Jim

[Junebug]

I quit smoking September 14, 2006.

I was at work getting ready to give a presentation on September 13, when suddenly, I didn't know who I was or where I was. No kidding. I was taken to George Washington University Hospital, Washington DC, and diagnosed with hypertension, as I had a blood pressure of 195 over 87 or something really stupid.

They did a CT Scan, got my body under control, and sent me home.

Of course the first thing I did was to light up when I got to my daughter's car (she picked me up from the hospital). I think I had maybe 4 cigeretts the rest of that night. Next morning, still not feeling very well, I decided to stay home from work. Poured my first cup of coffee, lit the cig. Poured my second cup of coffee, lit that cig. Twenty minutes goes by. Lit a cig. Half hour goes by, and now I am down to the last cig in my pack and none left in the carton. Lit the cig and asked my husband to go up to the store and get me a pack, since it was my last cig. Before he could go the phone rigns. It was GWU Hospital calling. Come to the hospital right away, we believe you have a brain Anuresym. The nightmare began.

Answer to your question. Yes, I do dream about smoking every now and then. but in the dream I am in my teens and nothing is wrong with me. I am healthy and happy go lucky. Oh, and I didn't have a 6cm brain Anuresym in my head.

Will I ever smoke again? Not on your life.