Many people who smoke would describe a craving as a heavy urge in your body that can only go away once you take a hit from a cigarette or whatever you smoke or chew on.
To crave a cigarette is the worst feeling for a smoker, to give in to that urge is the most wonderful feeling for that smoker, that is the illusion you have painted for yourself all these years of smoking.
In the end of the day that's exactly what these companies want, for you to come to a point of craving these nasty nicotine-stick so you would continue to buy them.
Because once you know that the only thing that can relieve you from these urges are cigarettes or whatever you are smoking, you will always keep buying them, and this will always secure their pockets.
Nicotine is a very addictive substance, if you smoke it, it will reach its final destination within 8 seconds, faster than when you inject it into your veins, in this case its final destination is the cranial nerve. In the beginning when you first started to smoke cigarettes the nicotine would increase the level of dopamine in the brain, dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for feelings of pleasure and well-being. That's the reason why most people think smoking gives them pleasure, but after a couple of weeks to months that 'feeling' will disappear, and only the memory of pleasure will stick around and this will keep you smoking.
It started out as a pleasurable thing and now it has become a hassle because now you need it to go through your day.
When you want to quit smoking, the first thing you notice that makes it hard for you are the cravings that hits you once you go a couple of hours without smoking. Craving a cigarette is what keeps you moving your quit date forward. When you go through this process its like you cannot think of anything else but to take a hit of a cigarette to calm your urges, now you know for sure that you need that cigarette because that's the only thing that can make these cravings disappear.
In actuality these feelings of craving cigarettes are nothing other than a withdrawal of your addiction, your body became addicted to it and now it wants it so called 'medicine' to keep it calm.
Now that you've realized what a craving really is and that this is what's keeping you addicted to these nasty cigarette, you can change your hole mindset about how to perceive this very bad habit.
The only way to beat these bad cravings, that feeling, that urge you get when you want a smoke is to face the reality of what they really are.
First of all, they are not something that you want because you like it, or because it relieves stress or make you concentrate better on your work, or give you a feeling of happiness, it's none of these things. The only thing these cravings has done to you is make you a slave to nicotine, and as long as you will give in to these cravings you will keep being addicted to smoking and it will always be a part of your life, maybe even the thing that will kill you in the end.
