Why do cigarette cravings vanish when I'm ill?!


Question: Why do cigarette cravings vanish when I'm ill?
I'm not a heavy smoker, maybe half a pack a day, but it's hard to quit. I have a throat infection at the minute (probably so hard to shake off because of the damn smoking), but the funny thing is I have no cravings. At all. Even when I'm doing my routines in which I smoke, there's just no urge. I'm not complaining, it's good for me, but I don't get why. Does anyone else lose their cravings when they're ill? Anyone know why this happens?

Answers:

I am a fairly heavy smoker. When I am sick my cravings don't exactly go away, but they do subside considerably. With any kind of throat pain or lung pain, it just irritates it further. Mentally you know that it is going to happen. It's like touching something hot, your mind doesn't transmit to your body that you have to touch it because you know it is hot and it will hurt. Same thing if you have nausea. Most of the time smoking will increase your nausea and your mind will not transmit the signals your body if it is going to.

Heavy smoker.



I was not a heavy smoker, 5or6 a day, and last year I got a bad throat infection for seven weeks, on two different antibiotics before it went away.
I was smoking and thought:"What am I doing this for"? What if I have throat cancer?"It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when, and I have not picked up a cigarette, nor do I intend to since last February, and now is your chance to quit also, when you are in pain, and you know cigs will only make it worse.
Keep the thought in your mind, and thank God that you don't have cancer, and "what am I waiting for?"



Yeah it happens with me too...however I don't smoke but use smokeless tobacco (the Swedish kind that comes in pouches - it's called Snus). Can't use it if I am sick with a fever or if I have some kind of stomach bug. I just always thought that when the body is ill, the craving is muted because your body is trying its best to repair itself. It's odd that once better your cravings come back with a vengeance.




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