Smoking...

[susandennis]

Every once in a while I get a giant, powerful urge to have a cigarette. It's not often but when it hits, man, do I ever want to light up. A few weeks ago, I actually did. I had a half a pack in the freezer so when I got one of those powerful urges I figured one puff just to see if it was as good as I remembered.

I lit it and sucked in and UGH! It was horrible.

What in the world happened to the delicious release of the smoke that served me so well for sooooo many years? It feels like the phantom feelings an amputee describes. A few minutes ago, it hit again and now I know there's nothing I can do. Sigh.

Comments

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too, to all of the above.

[susandennis]

Kind of nice to know it's not just me. Thanks.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Oh not just you!! It has been 8 years for me and I still feel that way. Never tried a cigarette again though. Now I know it won't help. Dreamed I lit a whole pack at one time once. The worst part was that when I woke up, I wasn't even satisfied.

[susandennis]

It won't help. It's a sad thing indeed....

[geordie.livejournal.com]

As one of those self satisfied people who has never smoked anything...

Well I can sympathize, even if I have no clue what you are going through.

I used to work in a smoke filled environment, I was always surprised that the most rabid anti smokers were the reformed smokers.

It seems strange now that we used to have meetings where people would think nothin of lighting up. It seems so 50s now.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

I worked at Hunting Engineering and they made all the buildings non-smoking in about 1988. The funny thing was that the non-smokers didn't want to tell the smokers what to do. The former smokers had no such reservations. Perhaps the majority smoked once in a while, but even the majority of smokers voted to ban smoking because they thought it would help them stop.

I don't think people growing up these days would believe how heavy the smoke used to be on the busses we took to school. In the winter the uninsulated roof of the bus would be running with tar. When I was about 14 they banned smoking on busses.

28 years ago! My how time flies.

[victory-rose.livejournal.com]

For me it's been over 19 years, and occasionally I still feel like having a cigarette. Yet, walking through an area where there has been smoking or someone is still smoking, I get a sort of asthmatic feeling where I have to fight for breath.

I don't normally remember my dreams, but I do remember that I frequently smoke in them.