What does a ciggarette craving feel like?

[Emmaadams]

A few people I know smoke cigarettes and I've tried them but just don't
See the appeal of inhaling smoke from burning leaves into my lungs 🤔

What does it feel like to crave a ciggarette?
How many did it take to get cravings?
It is really that hard to stop smoking?
When did you first try a ciggarette?

[ChrisMaster69]

It can effect people in different ways,

they get addicted to the nicotine side of things, and that when stressed or anxious, they have a cigarette,

i was I think 11 first time I had a cigarette

then I guess properly started at 12 mainly as everyone else was 🤦

It’s a kind of vicious circle with stress and anxiety wanting you to smoke but then when you do it sort of makes it worse, so you have another…

I think it was more a habit at first than a craving, just everyone else was doing it and u sort of felt left out. Then it was what you did when hanging out with mates,

the craving likely started after a year or so, when you were the one smoking and not may others where.

it became a ‘feeling down, stressed etc have a cigarette”, then when you could not get one you became more stressed, anxious, even short tempered over it,

for me I found it really easy to stop, I was dating a girl that hated smoker, so it was not date and benefits that brings or smoke, easy choice, it took me a weekend to stop and then have not since apart from odd social weed things.

best bet is really not to do it, find something else to do, it’s bad for health and not sure how much they are where you are, but UK they are fucking expensive.

[ChrisMaster69]

Oh and

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/.../smoking-and-mental-health

[ChrisMaster69]

@emmaadams the other thing to think about, is the cost of cigarettes.

Then what you could spend that money on, such as clothes etc

Which you would you prefer?

[Emmaadams]

Clothes defo
My friends sister has sum ciggaretts from Spain she sells them for £5
But I wouldn't spend like double plus that no way

[ChrisMaster69]

@emmaadams yeah I can get plenty cigarettes coming in from Spain etc, however some are fairly shit copies.

Being able to use ur own cash for what you want to wear, rather than bought for you is a big move,

[Emmaadams]

Yeah sum are fakes

[ChrisMaster69]

@emmaadams lol yeah, u see some one coughing off their tits n you can put money on them being fakes.

There really is not a good reason to smoke.

Also smokers and non smokers find dating hard

[Ευδεμονια]

I think the point of craving a cigarette arrives only after a big period of heavy smoking. I was a smoker, I liked it and I smoked when I was underage (17 y. o., but it’s pretty common to start also earlier here).
It lasted almost 1 year, when I comprehended that I was only losing breath and years of life, I ended up and saved some money ☺️
I think the pleasure arrives only in some moments, when nicotine hits your brain and gives you a little moment of calm and pleasure.. but it’s so ephemeral. I can say in particularly stressing moments I think about have a cigarette to calm my nerves but I manage to suppress this thoughts, I think it’s something you have once you became a smoker… but it’s easy to overcome it since it’s been a past issue for me.
Don’t waste your money and your life on smoke, there’s a lot of better things to do.

[TheMajesticKing777]

It feels like a different but sorta similar type of hunger, it's much stronger to hunger, you know that craving you have in your throat for food, it's like that but you can eat something and it will still be there until you smoke a cigarette

[jahaims]

Kinda like being hungry and horny. You just have a strong urge.

[Wise4myage]

Its all you think about and it makes you feel anxious.

[In_Trance]

most likely the same as any other craving