Quit 7 days ago
Ok 7 days of ups and downs first 3 days was the easiest, is this feeling of anger, being emotional and being unbearable to be around going to last forever im starting to feel is this really worth it i like the morning smoke with a coffee and then my day is constanly thinking about smokes im going insane its getting harder everyday im 33 been smoking 19 yrs quit because it started to affect me mentally and physically im a mother of 4 my son has asthma and doctors have all said best start for my son would be me to quit smoking and so here i am, i smoked 15-20 a day heavy smoker, my mind is all over the place as you can tell, i have so many questions to ask everyone but i will just start here i need all the help there is thankyou for reading my confusing all over the place rant.
Agree with Red. I tried nicotine gum and I feel they are not a good way to go as you are still addicted to the nicotine. I'm on Champix and the smokes taste absolutely disgusting when I have had one so I think this might be a good way to go. I'm reading Allan Carr as well. It's really worth reading. When I have given up "cold turkey" before all I could think about was cigarettes it drove me insane and I started again. This time I'm not thinking about them as much and the cravings are so much less.
Not sure if this helps or not bit, in regards to thinking about it constantly, (which I've been doing myself a lot so, understand there...) I've been trying a lot distract myself any way I can to not think about what I'm not doing... TV. Video games.books. Art. Writing. Building models. Anything. It may not be a fix-all method for it but, distracting yourself with whatever hobbies/interests you can has defnitly helped me a lot, or else I'm sure I wouldn't have even managed to cut back as much as I have so far... I've had a few smoke free days in the last week or so that I'm quite proud of, and most of them were due to managing to get myself so completely absorbed in things that I wasn't even thinking about smoking (or not smoking) at all... Particularly if you're not using Champix, (or in my case, can't use it on pain of super-bad-crazy-violent-insane-psychotic-terrifying-hallucinations, again because of my DID...)
Not sure if this will help at all but, really hope it does...
Hi there,
Congratulations on being 7 days smoke free!!
Lots of people experience what you're feeling but in time it does get better, or you yourself get better at coping with things.
I truly think it depends on what Quit method you're using and even then, what works for some, doesn't work for others and vice versa.
You know yourself better than anyone else. If you're in Australia, have you tried calling the Quitline? They were amazingly helpful for me.