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Yep, this has happened to me. I understand that “using dreams” are fairly common among addicts of all kinds... opioid addicts, alcoholics, former smokers, etc. Knowing that it’s a common phenomenon is somewhat reassuring, but it’s still disturbing! I make sure to spend extra time on the Quit Train the morning after… to try and shake the dream remnants and reaffirm my smoke-free reality.

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Yes, it happened to me twice since I quit. The first one was the worst because it was so vivid. When I woke up I wasn't totally sure that it was just a dream. Finally when I realized that it was a dream I was very relieved!! Hopefully you won't get them again.

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I had smoking dreams a lot during the first year or two of my quit, I still occasionally wake up from a smoking dream years later. I think it is common for dreams to bring things from your past back at you and as former smokers, smoking was a huge part of our lives. These dreams are disturbing but don't let it bother you. I think they are common.

G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required.)

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Ever since I quit, I've had a handful of dreams in which I dreamed I broke my quit. I've woken up in a panic before, and one was so convincing I spent time going over my finances and looking around my apartment for evidence I'd bought cigarettes. My dreams are not usually that vivid, and it really irks me when I have those dreams. Does anyone else experience smoking nightmares that leave you in a funk? Let me know how you cope with them, please!

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Jealousy is not a good look Bakon 😁🐸

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We're on our fourth day of crappy weather here, so I'm inside working on our family history. Unfortunately, all the online resources are also having issues with the weather, so they're frequently going offline. It's been a bit frustrating, but also productive. I've managed to clean out a lot of the tangles and dead weight on the family tree--people that we thought might've been connected but aren't, duplicates, and so on. So far I've pared away 200 names, and finished the second draft of my dad's and my continuation of my grandfather's family book.

Glad you’re back! Be fierce in protecting your quit this time.

Thanks! It happened so fast I didn’t have time to post. I’m back on the train. Hopefully this time sticks.

How’s it going @MLMR? So glad that you have returned here! Drop us a note to let us know how you are doing with your quit.

Hello @MLMR... I do not suffer from clinical depression but I know a thing or two about situational depression. The biggest trigger I believe I have left in my practice to be a smoke free human being is thinking often that smoking can help me when I feel anger or depression. A death in the family or feeling really angry or under pressure always sends my mind racing, thinking that a cigeratte will somehow comfort me or make me feel better. One of the things that helped me is to deeply re-examine my belief system about smoking. As Dan1 says below in his post, " [a] cigarette is not capable of making us think, feel, or experience a single thing, other than a bit of nausea and a somewhat elevated heartbeat". I am still working on ignoring that background stinking thinking noice that pops up once in a while in my head that smoking can help me feel better when I feel depressed. As Dan1 says, that "wanna smoke... fades as the belief that 'smoking helps' fades." The fact that you are still coming here @MLMR says that your desire to to be a non smoker is much stronger than your belief that smoking can do anything to help you. You just have to give yourself more time to allow that false belief that smoking can help to fade into the background. Keep coming here and keep our quit. Kind Regards, Gene Dan1: 2007-03-17 on Quitnet Why is this so hard? It's a question worth asking, and I'm convinced that the usual answers aren't good enough. After all, continuing to smoke is easy - just ask anyone here. And being free of smoking is even easier - just ask anyone who's made it, or anyone who's never smoked, or simply consult your own common sense. So why is the path from 'easy' to 'easier' so hard? Maybe you're taking the wrong path. And no, I'm not engaging in the senseless debate about Cold Turkey vs meds. That has an answer as individual as your personality. How you answer that question is in no way related to how someone else did or should answer it. No, the wrong path is in thinking of this as a battle of will. It simply is not, and making it seem like one is the only thing that makes this difficult. “Will” can only do one thing: follow your own pre-existing values. You can use it to smoke or to not smoke with equal ease. The thing that you can't do for long is turn it against you - to make yourself act against your own self interests. If you struggle, there is one simple reason: You believe that smoking provides you with something you want or need - in short, you value smoking. When you struggle to not smoke, all you are doing is asking your will to act against your values. That is a source of tremendous stress and anxiety, and those in turn cause all of the 'quit symptoms' that make this so hellish. Every failed quit is simply willpower finding it's triumph - by re-aligning your actions to your values. In this state of affairs, smoking is a victory of the will, not a failure, No wonder we find that it feels so good. But it doesn't have to be this way. Instead of fighting against the thought to smoke, get to know it a little. Find out where it came from, what it's real purpose is. Your body and brain don't want to smoke - but they may desire some change that you incorrectly believe smoking can give. A cigarette is not capable of making us think, feel, or experience a single thing, other than a bit of nausea and a somewhat elevated heartbeat. It can't make us happy, contented, or relaxed. All these other things (and a thousand others) are strictly a question of the interpretation of that otherwise meaningless event. But by believing the myth that cigarettes have the power to change our thoughts, fears, wishes, or circumstances, we run from something that we needn't fear, and strengthen the very notions that have us reaching again and again for that little white tube of death. 21 months ago, I quit smoking with the assumption that I would smoke again. It was not that I wanted to, planned to, or thought I would need to. Instead, it was a confidence in my ability to be stupid. I simply assumed that sooner or later I would screw up. This turned out to be a great benefit. Instead of growing tense over an impossibly high-seeming perfection, I could instead think about how to prevent the inevitable stumble from turning into a fall. And on that path I found a signpost to freedom: That the "stumble" wasn't in actually smoking, but in thinking positively about smoking. The "fall" wasn't smoking the pack, not even taking a puff. The "fall" was in holding on to incorrect values. Smoking was simply the most obvious external sign that my beliefs were screwed up. At that point, it could hardly matter if I smoked or not - fighting was in itself a failure. That might sound like I'm setting the bar even higher than not smoking - that you're somehow not allowed to even think of smoking. But that's exactly wrong. I'm inviting you instead to think deeply about smoking, about what it means to you, about why you believe these things that the vast majority of the world can't even understand. Each thought of smoking becomes an opportunity to understand how and where your beliefs and values are wrong, and to realign them to your greater truth - that you do not want to smoke. That's why you started this journey, isn't it? Now, changing beliefs isn't easy, but it's not hard, either. Mostly, it just takes time. And you have plenty of time. Instead of spending time fighting with yourself, spend it understanding that the very thing you are fighting over is a mistake, an error. Suddenly, the fight is gone. Yes, it's still annoying listening to that endless 'wanna smoke?' mental drumbeat. But that fades as the belief that 'smoking helps' fades. And yes, you will from time to time experience symptoms. But as long as you recognize that quitting didn't cause them (at least, not in the sense of 'needing' nicotine) and that smoking has no way to help them (that power resides only in you, and always did), they will pass, and there will be no struggle. Yes, it can be hard. But it doesn't have to be. If you find too much 'hard' between 'easy' and 'easier', check your map. Either you've made a wrong turn, or you're using the wrong map. Dan. 640 days (21 months) smoke free. 12798 cigarettes not smoked. $2,240.00 and 3 months, 7 days, 18 hours of your life saved. "Life is either a great adventure, or it is nothing."

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-6, Bakon, go cook something on your new grill! You will need to be in practice when we come visit!!