I know that if you don’t start, you’ll never be addicted to it. But if you quit smoking, is the urge to smoke much greater, does it get easier as time passes, is it really possible to be free of the addiction, or will it stay, make life hard forever?
After 48 hours, the physical craving for nicotine is usually gone. The desire to smoke after that is psychological. So practice mind over matter.
The urge to smoke doesn’t exist in people who aren’t addicted. If you have quit smoking, the urge to smoke decreases over time. It won’t always be a struggle. The time it takes to get over it varies from person to person.
I used to smoke 1/2 pack a day and I just quit years ago cold turkey. I did have a few puffs here and there but I don’t want nothing to do with smoking at all now though. My father passed away from a pancreatic tumor from smoking and drinking alcohol for 40 some years. I didn’t wanna go the same path . My Dad was 57 years old young I think .
Four years ago, I quit smoking after doing so for ten. It wasn’t easy at first, pacifying myself with other’s second hand smoke and wanting to buy a pack. Eventually, it got easier. Six months in, though, with things that were going on in my life, I wanted one and second hand smoke didn’t seem to be cutting it. Twice I was thisclose buying a pack. The first time, we were in New York City and the price of the cheap packs were about $5– about $3 more than what I paid for my last pack. The second time, in the same month, I just talked myself out of it.
Now, I LOATHE the smell of smoke. I literally choke up and cease breathing when I smell it, even if it’s "just" on somebody’s clothes, which means it can be difficult to have a conversation with some people, including my husband’s sister, her husband, and my husband’s brother’s wife. I don’t’ even like having my daughter’s 17-month-old daughter around them because I don’t want her to smell it and for her to breath in the poison.
Of course, there are some who have never smoked and, smartly, don’t have the urge to.
im a non smoker so can only speak form a non-smoker point of view, though literally every other member of my family is and they have tried to quit so from my observation point its like letting go of someone special. no amount of "you’ll be healthier for it" will make it any easier (it will make you fitter) but its still just as hard to let go. for me its like missing something i never had, i don’t know what its like to have it so i can’t miss it, but i like coffee and i have a habit of biting my nails, they say its as clean as licking the toilet seat(my toilet is clean actually) but its a habit none the less and its really hard to break