Eli5: how come a smoker can sleep all through the night without their cravings waking them up? But as soon as they are awake they need to smoke!
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While it seems like that may be the case, it’s often not. Many smokers wake up during the night to smoke. I personally know people who are like that. I can also say from my own experience with nicotine addiction that cravings can make it hard to fall asleep and stay asleep. Even when I was asleep I’d often dream about vaping or smoking cigarettes and sometimes even just the dreams would wake me up.
Much in the same way people have sleep for dinner, the body is great at shutting down its own signals when it needs to sleep. Think about how you’ll sleep through a full bladder and even have pee dreams, but you’ll still sleep through until your bladder reaches a point of pain
The interesting thing is that we’ve evolved to sleep through almost anything that the body doesn’t deem dangerous, but pain wakes people up and keeps people awake. Obviously some pain can be slept through, but the body treats pain as a threat to survival and wakes us up
As a smoker, I wake up in the middle of the night often and always have a cigarette when I do.
My father was a smoker and a drunk. He got up about every three hours for a smoke and a beer.
I was able to quit after 20 years by eliminating the need for the morning cigarette, then it was the after eating cigarette, finally the boredom cigarette.
Having gone from a pack a day from zero in an instant without any cravings, I can say, it’s mostly in the head.
How do you sleep all night without having to eat?
There’s a book called “it’s easy quit smoking “ or something, but that was THE Quote that makes me quit . Was so logical. How can you be 8 hrs without smoking ? Now do the same awake
well to smokers it goes as follows
* stressed cig
* sad two cigs
* angry cig
* happy cig
* woke up cig
* go to bed cig
* good food cig
* got done drinking cig
* bored cig
I always knew which corner of the sheet went to my dad’s head because every set had multiple cigarette holes in them. He’d wake up in the middle of the night, light up his cigarette and fall back asleep with it in his hand. Only to wake up to the stinging of having rolled on top of it. He got one mattress pretty good though once. Said when he woke up he had to pour his soda on it. Luckily it was flame retardent at this point in time and it only sorta melted a hole in his pillow top.
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