former smokers, do you ever have random moments months or years later where you just get textbook "cravings" symptoms? - eviltoast

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

  • mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

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