Dreams

[gramX2]

I'm a terrible sleeper, have been for years but I have noticed I have been having weird dreams since my quit. The one that keeps coming back is climbing stairs but than I drop something and have to climb again-now I know that this is a metaphor for the climb in becoming smoke free and dropping something is for the those times I have slipped or are thinking of having a cigarette. Do I ever get to the top or is it just a forever climb?

[YoungAtHeart]

I know it feels like a forever climb so early in your quit, but you WILL get there in real life (can't promise what will happen in your dreams!).  You smoked for a long time, and this quit thing IS a journey - but I promise there will come a day, maybe after a few months, when you look back and realize you didn't think about smoking at all that morning.  It is a gradual process and gets easier and easier.  After awhile, you will notice you went a whole DAY without thinking about it.  I don't remember when it finally happened for me, but eventually I didn't EVER think about smoking, except maybe in those rare instances where an association I hadn't relearned came up (like raking leaves) and I would think, "gee, a cigarette would be nice right now."  By that point it's only a memory, and easy to dismiss with a shake of the head and "nah!"

Hang in there!  Celebrate each day!  Notice what physical (and mental) improvements you see.

Nancy

[anaussiemom]

Sometimes dreams are just kinda jumbled up feelings.  Sometimes weird dreams are  from medications.   Your ok! You got this!! 

Keep taking one step at a time.  Smoking is an addiction, as I am sure you know.  A moment at a time...




Hugs

[Barbara145]

Good morning.  I know what you mean.  I smoked for 52 years.  I did not know what was going to happen in my quit but I KNEW what was going to happen if I didn't.  I wanted more life not less.  I hung in there and one day things started getting better (it took a while.)    You are doing this and one day you will experience the fruits of your labors.  It is such a different better life.  You will see.

[AnnetteMM]

I love this dream! You have fortitude and perseverance!

[gramX2]

Love this- I am going to print it off and put on my fridge! Thank you!

[elvan]

I, too, think it's a GREAT dream...if you keep going, you will, at the very least, get to a landing so you can stop and catch your breath. This journey goes on for as long as we do but it DOES get much easier.

Ellen

[maryfreecig]

Sometimes I like to belt fear in the stomach by saying things something like this...if, I must climb like this forever, that's ok, I't not too hard and I am willing. If I don't resize my worry, it grows and grows and grows.  No doubt if you keep building your smobriety--the dream will fade into the mist...ur...away.

[sweetplt]

I don't read too much into dreams gramX2...but I can say, like you, been having some weird ones too...it must be a forever climb, because we have to work on the Quit forever...being vigilant and always growing...~ Be well...and hoping no more dreams...Happy Saturday ~ Colleen