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 Jacqui672 Gold |
The smoking dream | #241 | ||
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02/09/07 09:56 |
Too funny! I had a crazy smoking dream last night! I was smoking for a few weeks. It was utterly bizarre! Must be a full moon.
Ten months, one week, five days, 1 hour, 56 minutes and 5 seconds. 12723 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,499.34. Life saved: 6 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 15
minutes.
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ldnicolai |
The smoking dream | #242 | ||
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02/11/07 12:52 |
Thanks so much Roger. After I had my dreams/nightmares about smoking and wrote about them I felt much better!
I feel even more confident now that I know the reasons behind the dream! Yay for my lungs healing!!!! LaDonna. nicotine free for 12d, 17h and 51mins. I've not smoked 191 cigarettes and have saved $57.38. I will enjoy 15h and 55mins more of my life! Thank You Freedom! |
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dennyb2 |
The smoking dream | #243 | ||
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02/11/07 04:22 |
Joel starts off this thread informing us:
"The smoking dreams are common if not universal among ex-smokers."
I for one have had many of them thus far in my journey here at Freedom and I agree with one and all they are very vivid and I dare say nightmarish.
However, I believe the smoking dream experienced by those of us who participate in this worldwide community of Freedom From Tobacco IS very
different form the rest in one very significant way! We not only wake up feeling the guilt of having smoked, we believe we have lost our privledge to
participate here as well.
While still in my dreams, junkie thinking is telling me simply wait 72 hours after you fininsh however many you have smoked in that particular dream
and every thing will be just fine. Reminders of active addiction.
This may sound crazy but I actually have come to somewaht enjoy this now infrequent dream for me because now I wake up with a smile on my face knowing it was
just a dream and that it can not hurt me. I also believe it is a vivid reminder to stick to your resolve to Never Take Another Puff!
Welcome to all of you in the early stages of your journey here. Read, read and read some more you will find is very good advice. Educate yourself here and
enjoy your Freedom! Just one simple rule, No Nicotine Today.
Attitude is everything, keep it positive, move forward and live life to its fullest. NTAP
Denny B - After 38 years - Free and Healing for Ten Months, Sixteen Days, 7 Hours and 20 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 39 Days and 4 Hours, by
avoiding the use of 11281 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $2,857.86.
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LadyScorpio1 |
The smoking dream | #244 | ||
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05/29/07 10:16 |
I'm on day 37 of not smoking and I'm not having using dreams but I am having VERY weird
dreams...Just really weird and they have just started in the last week or so...Has anyone experienced these? Is it because of quitting smoking?
Suzanne - Free and Healing for One Month, Seven Days, 21 Hours and 15 Minutes, while
extending my life expectancy 3 Days and 6 Hours, by avoiding the use of 947 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $256.13.
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jakki8368 |
The smoking dream | #245 | ||
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09/22/07 01:20 |
i have woken this morning after having a 'smokers dream'. i must say that it did un steady me slightly - not so much the fact that i had dreamt of
smoking - this forum and website has educated me to the possibility of it happening - but i was amazed at my feelings during the dream.
The way the dream went, i had accepted a cigarette without remembering i dont smoke - this is one of my fears and i find i am constantly thinking of not
smoking to prevent this happening.
After lighting the cigarette i walk away from the people i am with - obviously so as not to allow them to see me - and i smoke the cigarette.
By the first puff i realise that i shouldn't be smoking and that i don't want to have the cigarette but i can't stop myself - i tastes awful and
it makes me feel dizzy and sick but i carry on - this is obviously showing me how adicted i am to nicotine.
The good thing about this dream is that it has just reinforced the fact that i don't want a cigarette, and has shown me my fears about forgetting i
smoked (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) how silly of me!
Any way i am determind to never take another puff so the dream can stay just where it is - as a reminder to me that i am an addict and i have to deal with
this adiction one day at a time.
jakki
 - Free and Healing for Eleven Days, 10
Hours and 47 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 1 Day and 4 Hours, by avoiding the use of 343 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me
£85.91.
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RJW118 |
The smoking dream | #246 | ||
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11/08/07 07:14 |
Had a bad one the other night on about day 45 or so.
Dream of smoking within a dream of not smoking, dreamed of waking in the not smoking dream, upset that I was smoking in the non smoking dream. I finally woke up, took a while to sort out out why I was not tearful which I had been in the non smoking dream when I dreamed I lost the quit. weird, but still free..... |
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joeb769 |
The smoking dream | #247 | ||
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12/02/07 09:57 |
I'm glad you've set up a forum for sharing info on dreams about smoking. I've had a few of these dreams lately, and like you said, they seemed
very real and were unsettling when I woke up. Each time when I woke up, I was just certain I'd been smoking, but it was only in my dream. But when
I'm awake, and I realize that I only smoked in my dream, I felt so much better to learn I hadn't blown my quit!
I'm now 10 weeks as a non-smoker. That's 1400 cigarettes avoided and a savings of about $250!
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AbOlivigail |
The smoking dream | #248 | ||
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12/04/07 11:02 |
The smoking dream I had around week 2 was amazing. Not good amazing, but amazing in it's realism. As a previous poster mentioned, I felt worse than awful
when I suddenly realized that I was holding a cigarette in my dream, and that I had apparently been smoking it. It took me a few moments to realize that it WAS
a dream when I awoke. The great thing is, thanks to that bizarrely realistic dream, I now know exactly how it would feel to "give in" and take a
puff.
Jenny - Free and Healing for One Month, Eight Days, 10 Hours and 31 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 2 Days and 16 Hours, by avoiding the use of 769 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $231.00. |
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pdquit |
The smoking dream | #249 | ||
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03/17/08 06:36 |
I had a different kind of smoking dream. I had a dream it started to snow and there was a blizzard coming. So I jumped in my truck and headed for the store
cause I was out of cigarettes. I was kinda in a panic and I drove like a maniac to get there. I ran into the store and up to the counter and then I stopped
and laughed and said "Wait a minute. I dont smoke!!! I turned around and left. I take that as a good sign that I am strong enough and determined
enough to make it an NTAP!
PD
quit 24 days and 19 hours ago and I'm feeling great!
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JoeJFree Gold |
The smoking dream | #250 | ||
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09/29/08 03:19 |
If you had imagined yourself smoking a cigarette in a dream before you quit it would not have registered. Smoking was an every day
occurence.
It is what you did, it was how you lived - dose to dose.
Now, when we show up in our dreams & we are smoking it does not mean we want to smoke a cigarette or use some tobacco, it only
means that was a normal activity for quite some time during our lives. Much like conscious thoughts - Dreams
cannot harm you. Actions speak louder than words - or thought
More than anything the panic and confusion when waking up after one of these dreams thinking you've relapsed and thrown away your
quit is a sign of deep psychological healing. You even believe you're an ex-smoker in your dreams.
 That is the mindset of a committed ex-smoker. As Joel so
correctly states:
In regards to smoking, no matter what you do in your dreams, you will be OK as long as you remember in your waking state to Never Take Another Puff! Joel
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EtherBunny73 |
The smoking dream | #251 | ||
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11/12/08 05:36 |
I had the smoking dream last night.
In my dream, I smoked with a girl that I knew when I first started smoking... Very strange, I hadn't though of her in at least 15-17 years. Hopefully she has quit too. In the dream I kept thinking "Why am I doing this?" and I kept looking at my hands thinking that they smelled bad. It's odd how so many of us have this dream. |
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03/19/09 08:40 |
Freedom...you must be deep in my head!
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08/18/09 07:21 |
Just wanted to say I have had 2 smoking dreams also.....within the 1st month of my quit. They were very strange. Last night I had a wierd dream about an old
friend that smoked, she still smoked but I did NOT in the dream. woohoo
Luckily I had read about these smoking dreams HERE and was not suprised or threatened by them  Thanks again FREEDOM!
Renee - Free and Healing for One Month, Twelve Days, 21 Hours and 20 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 3 Days and 19 Hours, by avoiding the use of
1097 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $192.36.
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