Cigarette/Pica Cravings

[PyjamasLlamas]

I had a thread a couple of weeks ago about smoking half a cigarette after 9 years as a non-smoker. The craving was obsessive and consistent. I haven't had another and bought a nicotine free vape (which is rubbish and has done nothing to diminish the craving).

Anyhow the cigarette craving has now developed into a craving for licking and eating cigarette ash! Gross! So definitely pica.

The last time i was PG it was shoe polish and I would sit watching tv with a tub of shoe polish which I would occasionally sniff. I was very close to eating it too but refrained

So now I'm craving fag ash...anyone know an alternative?! I think about it all say long and want to smoke just so I can get to eat the ash at the end.

WTF??!

Isn't pica a sign of an iron deficiency?

Have you been tested for anaemia? I craved cigarettes for weeks until I started on iron tablets and now it's gone.

Yep have anaemia...also on iron

I think I remember reading cigarette/ash craving is potassium deficiency. Might be worth getting bloods done. Or try eating bananas/coconut water?