Bear,
VERY few things make me "crave" nowadays. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had an actual craving. All I get now is the occasional smoking thought where I think "I'd like a cigarette right now" and then it's gone as quick as it came and it doesn't come back for days, weeks or months. But I can tell you that the most difficult situation for me to deal with smoke free was drinking with smokers. I don't have any problems anymore, but as recently as December or January, I was still struggling with this. In fact, I remember posting on here that this trigger was so hard for me that I didn't want to go out with my friends anymore because I was MISERABLE every time that I did!
Perhaps part of the reason I struggled so much was that from June 17, 2005 until July 2006, I'd almost completely quit drinking, with very few exceptions. So, I hadn't really conquered this trigger yet. Then, when I started going out a lot in July of 2006 and for several months after that, I really struggled hard with staying quit while drinking; especially when drinking with smokers. Smoking and drinking went so well together for me that it was hard to disassociate those two things. And, 2 out of my 3 slips were while drinking, so that made it even harder.
I'm proud to say that now, I can go out drinking with smokers and non-smokers alike without any hint of a craving or smoking thought. In fact, the idea of smoking doesn't even cross my mind! It took a while to get there, but once I did, that trigger faded completely! So have no doubt that whatever your worst trigger is, with time, it will go away too!
Crave the Quit!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/17/2005
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 699
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,475
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,886.87
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 49 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 5 [B]Seconds:[/B] 14
