Hello fellow travellers!
These are some thoughts about cravings that I am going to add into the mix! I�ve had education in this area, but I�m by no means an expert, so please take my thoughts with a grain of salt. If my ideas are meaningful for you, that�s great. And please bear with me as I haven�t articulated these thoughts yet and I�m just feeling my way through them.
It is a matter of record that some people on this site have reported cravings at the one month mark, at the one year mark and at other different milestones. Other people state that they haven�t noticed anything of the sort. Viva la difference!
All people are both wildly and subtly different in their physiological and psychological make up and the connections between the two. And your innate individual starting point is further altered by experiences, exposure to different chemicals and habituation to situations.
As a part of these differences, it follows logically that the interactions between mind/brain and body are also different for different people. What started me thinking about this mind/body linkage is the fact that over the last few days (one month into my quit) I�ve experienced some very powerful, physical detoxification symptoms. I won�t go into details! I guess that the first rush of chemicals was out of my body in the first couple of weeks, and maybe I�m going through the second wave of a slightly different range of cigarette chemicals. Noxious #@%#ng stuff!
Now, here�s my thought. Depending upon your individual makeup, could mental/emotional cravings be created by a physical detox from cigarette chemicals? Your body experiences a certain level of distress with any detoxification, and your body is not stupid. It knows that the original imbalance is caused by cigarettes, it got it�s �fix� from cigarettes every time it felt unbalanced (craving) when you were a smoker. Now that a natural, healthy balance is being slowly restored the body has moments of distress (perhaps especially during a detoxification process) and craves the poison to get it back to it�s habitual unhealthy balance.
After reading all the posts and experiencing my own, as yet, short quit, I believe that we will have to detox from these chemicals for some time to come. The crests of detoxing (Eg one month, thr
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