When i smoke....

I want to quit smoking cuz I know how bad it is but I really enjoy smoking. I think its just how addictions work. I love to smoke after a big meal, its great. I couldnt see my life without them anymore. It sucks! your normal

yes smoking is like part of your personality, especially these days where its so restricted. your friends are smokers, you go out for smokes together. you do it when youre waiting for the bus. it does become part of you.

I get the feeling because it makes you feel as if you look good doing it. Stupid reason for wasting your health. I'm 30 and I've got trouble breating (even with an inhaler) and I've smoked for around 13 years (though I quit for an year or two inbetween). Main thing is to not have any alcohol for me. If I drink...I need to smoke. If you hang out with friends you need to drink...so basically limit hanging out with friends who drink (which limits your friends to around 10% of whom you usually hang out with). It's a bitch, but that's the truth

When we satisfy our basic needs - air, food, water, sleep & sex - so easily, it's not surprising that we like to add an addiction to something we enjoy (even if all we actually 'enjoy' is relieving the craving, which is a valid pleasure). Just as it's pleasurable to eat when hungry, it's pleasurable to smoke when nicotine levels have dropped.

The poster made it quite clear they enjoy being addicted to nicotine, and as things to be addicted to go, it's a good one - as long as you're OK with the fact that you have to do it all day, every day, and that the addiction only gets stronger unless you actively fight it.

The problem comes from how you get your nicotine - smoking tobacco is extremely harmful, and is getting less and less socially acceptable as it can harm others, or at least piss them off with stinky smoke! Nicotine patches, gum, lozenges etc are OK when you're seriously trying to quit, but they don't give you a decent nicotine 'hit', which makes them useless for the addict - and even if you quit smoking with them, you're still hooked on nicotine but without the pleasure of quick relief.

Try an electronic cigarette - they give a pretty good hit, and are certainly much healthier despite concerns (which are mostly because they are unregulated so no-one's making a ton of money out of them!) The only danger as far as I can see (other than cheap ones breaking and spilling toxic nicotine solution) is that you might end up increasing your nicotine addiction, possibly to dangerous levels. So have a care, but otherwise go for it!

Major addiction

Normal for an addictive-type person. Most addicts that are re overing move forwRd to find only that some thing different than before is ruining their lives. Many claim they have a hole in their souls as if the wind could blow through them. The key is to fill that void with something lasting and helpful such as spiritually.

I am a smoker. I enjoy everything about it. From the feeling, the anticipation of a cigarette after a meal, to the almost sort of...ritualistic manner behind it. I can go without a cigarette. If I do not have any, or don't feel the need to buy any, I wont. I sometimes crave them when I don't have them. Would I have started had I known that I would be spending this much money? Negative. I've started, I cannot, nor do I want to stop. BUT I do not feel that the addiction completes me. I would much rather have a healthy addiction to something that actually takes me somewhere. I'm not telling you to quit smoking, although it is in everyones best interest to do so. But maybe you could work on finding something productive to become addicted to rather than something that by fact, destroys you. You'll spend much less money on cigarettes if you keep yourself occupied with something productive.

I'm not a smoker, but I've always felt that's it's just something that I've always thought would be a nice addition to my person, but then, I always thought about the consequences.

I'd say it's normal, but it's because of the addiction, because s lot of things can fill that same space.

That is the addiction in itself. That's just how you feel it.

God people are insecure

I think it is OK to be addicted to an addiction; the idea of pain leading to growth is most likely responsible for this "addiction-craving." I'm not saying quit smoking, but maybe try something "healthier" like working out too hard reading too much. Then pay attention to how/if your addiction to smoking changes at all. That way you can find out if you are addicted to addiction in general or smoking :)

and if i find u ill make u smoke 4 ciguratts and i'll put the ashes in a cup fill the cup wit water ler the cup wit ashes and water sit for a day or two and make u drink that'!remember hole and burn!!

guess what...my parents are smokers and i always yell at them for smoking and mi dad almost died so quit now or u can go die in a hole and burn!!

Ok. Well Ive read the above and I have a couple things to say. First of all, if youve only been smoking for 6 months than do yourself a favor and stop while the withdrawl isnt horrible.
I had my first ciggarette at 11 and was addicted to cigarettes by the time I was 12. Ive been a full time smoker since then.
You might think it completes you now, but 40 years down the road all it will have done for you is waste your money and fill your body with toxins.
I have quit smoking twice in my entire life. The first time was managable. I had only been smoking for 7 months. Simalar to you. The second time I quit for 3 months, with a carton in my bedside table. I regret picking up a cigarette and lighter to this day. I have yet to quit for good.
Im telling you that you want to quit while you can, because before to long, your world will stop turning if you are without cigarettes. Its honeslty rediculous how people of all shapes and sizes become addicted to tiny tubes filled with a dried leaf.
You dont want to be on the outside looking in. Stay on the couch while you can dood. Save your money and buy a hot car. Do yourself a favor.

i have to have something that i'm addicted to or everything feels all wrong. currently, if i'm not smoking or so caffeinated that i make gir from invader zim look sane, i get really anxious. so i get where you're coming from.

ask a shrink

saying that you dont crave after 3 days is a lie, i am currently quiting and havent smoked for just over a week. i am still craving. the best time to quit or cut down is to start when you are ill, its alot easier to not smoke whilst you are ill, and say to yourself that you are only going to have 2 this week or something, set targets, thats the key

i know what your saying but if you want to quit or just cut down quit for 3 days you'll stop getting cravings after then