Gum
Hi after 3 days cold turkey and my irritability sky high,I phoned the lovely lady at the Quitline who advised me to get the gum, which I have now done.I don't want cigarettes, just to be rid of the withdrawal. It is intense no doubt about that. So still sticking with my determination that I will not smoke again. 4 days now and I don't ever want to have to go through this nightmare again. Keep up the good work everyone
Hi Now Time ,
Well done to you for not going back to smoking with being so irritable. Sounds like you did exactly the right thing for you getting some gum. And it definitely helps talking to the Quitline. Luckily the feelings pass with time it at least become much less severe.
Hi Now Time,
I read your comment on my latest post and wanted to return you a comment. I hope you are doing ok on your latest quit attempt. I know that in the early days it is really easy to give in to the cravings.
As time goes on it does get easier, but you have to really watch out because the nicotine beast is very very clever. It will try everything out on you to make you cave in. What you can do is work out exactly for what reasons YOU want to stop . Keeping this in your mind and even keeping a card handy with your reasons helps you greatly when you are faced with the choice.
Also I have started physical exercise to help me have a big extra reason. You can keep adding on reasons.
I wish you the best and please feel free to drop me a line again 🥳😊🙏
Also if someone in your social group lights up that might be too much of a trigger for you. At such a time either walk away for a little while or just watch the person smoking. Are they truly enjoying the smoking?
When you have been craving a cigarette feels good but that is because you are hitting your nicotine receptors with the drug it wants.
It’s possible to go cold turkey as I did but do what you think. If gums actually help you then do that but I found CT the best solution to set me up.
Yes NRT's are a crutch of sorts. But if that's what people believe they need to get them to the end result then all is good. The hardest part of the quit is psychological, missing the smokes for what we thought they did for us. We did it several times a day for years if not decades. We did it without thinking. We did it to appease the nicotine monster. That is what made us feel good. Funny how those on nicotine patches still crave.... they think they crave the nicotine, but it is much deeper than that.
Nicotine withdrawal is said to be barely perceptible. Nicotine is out of our systems in about 72 hours. Even if our bodies had to adjust to not having nicotine it may be like a flu for a portion of that time.
What price do you put on freedom?