Curiouser and Curiouser
I find it confusing and also frustrating that one day I will cruise along smoke free and quite normal and the next I am a teeth grinding, miserable, teary, snarly, people hating, impatient, sarcastic wreck. I mean really! If I was someone else watching me I would think that some serious therapy and possibly an exorcism was in order.... How is it that nicotine has such a hold that even after 25 days it still sticks it claws in wherever and however it can. It is seriously annoying. What a hideous drug, what a moron the person was that invented the cigarette and what an idiot I was to be slave to it for so many years.
On another note has anyone realised how stinky the world is? Now I get moments where I can actually smell things and I don't like it! I think I also can smell phantom odours as well. I often say - 'Eeww can anyone smell that?' and I get either weird or blank looks and the stench is so bad to me, like today it was the smell of old deep fryer oil and I was feeling nauseous in the end from it. No one else could smell it and there I was breathing through my mouth wishing that my sense of smell would go back to being 'out of order'. Very strange indeed. Not a fan of being able to use my nose!
Wow Cranky thought I was reading my post, it certainly could be I seem to be mirroring you, one day great next well least said. and yep the smell, there are some really stinky odours around hard to pin point them - but the smell of stale smoke is one of the worst
I hear you Cranky & I feel excatly the same way at day 39. I'm still waiting to feel great but I'm sure it's going to come and it is all worth it.
Your moods will plateau, don't worry. It will, of course, depend on whether or not you're using NRT but cold turkiers (I may have just made that word up) will be fine after a month or so. After that, it may actually be that you're in a bad mood. Imagine that! Ha ha ha, smoking masks and is blamed for so much, most of it is true but eventually your true self will appear. I've recently realised that sometimes it's that someone has just bloody annoyed me and tell myself to just "get over it" :) It's normal, people can be idiots :)
Hi Cranky76, you know what the most hideous smell is? For me it is the smoke from someone smoking and passing me on the footpath. Makes me gag... After that, it is the stench from the bins in the street... It has taken over 45 ears for me to come to this realisation ... I have reclaimed my sense of smell.