so i quit smoking...

ginger_hammer

Yesterday i stopped smoking, went cold turkey and now my stupid brain is in full nicotine withdrawal stage! Stupid niccotine with its zero positives and all negatives! At least smell and taste coming back online although thats not always a good thing!
Temper predictably short but it should pass soon enough. Screw ciggies ive had enough of them.

Majoca

Have you seen a cleric? it costs £10 for remove curse.

Majoca

good luck though! keep it up, its worth quitting.

ginger_hammer

Majoca said:

Have you seen a cleric? it costs £10 for remove curse.

Haha please pass on their number and I'll give them a call! Remove curse would be handy alright.

Cheers though, I'm looking forwards to better health and wallet Just need to get through the 'want to crush everybody' stage. Maybe I need to cast imprisonment on myself for a few days...

rexreg

congrats, @ginger_hammer...i quit about 12 yrs ago & did as you...cold-turkey...
in the end it's the only way to do it...
one day @ a time, baby...

Kristie83

Good luck and congrats on you decision and willpower!

ginger_hammer

Thanks guys. So far so good, playing some BF3 to get my stress relief :-)

bigdogchris

Like most withdraws, it probably will last 2-3 weeks until your body is used to not having the nicotine.

The human body will do everything in it's power to make you want more nicotine. It will make you depressed and have head aches until it gets what it wants, but eventually those feelings pass.

Don't give in!

Drugar

You'll want to read this;

http://www.cracked.com/article_19030_quitting-smoking-6-things-you-notice-about-stupid-world.html

From what I hear, it's very accurate. Might help with the "at least I'm not alone" thought.

Nathan

One thing a good friend of mine did when going through something similar was replace the desire for smoking with another action. No matter what was going on - if he had the desire to smoke a cig he'd chug a small glass of water instead.

It's just incidental though - I've never been through it and this seems to be a personal thing for a lot of people. Good luck, though, kicking the cancer sticks to the curb.

TJ_Hooker

@Drugar I haven't actually read the article, but you get an automatic "Like" for linking to Cracked.

Cheesebelly

Reminds me when I quit drinking coffee (yeah, it's remarkably possible, but with consequences XD )
I replaced coffee entirely with something similar but not as bad, something that would keep me "up" and strong, in my case, cocoa with cold milk. Eventually the need for coffee went away and so did the need for the cocoa.

Of course, the negative side being - I get tired very easily now and can't find a quick remedy to make that up.

I don't know what can be replaced by smoking, I hear chewing gums can work out. Either way I wish you, not luck, but rather a strong will and persevere in your final goal. And if you need some people to talk to, I'm sure you can find plenty right about here

rexreg

the Beatles wrote a song about quitting cigarettes...
http://youtu.be/-Tu2eZpA4yo

mch202

Cheesebelly said:

Reminds me when I quit drinking coffee (yeah, it's remarkably possible, but with consequences XD )

No way... Not possible...




NOPE.. NOT POSSIBLE!


Im not a big coffee junkie but I cant start the morning without coffee ( Or before classes ), The only replacement for coffee that I can take and stay awake is Reitalin.. which is probably f**king my brain from other angle

ginger_hammer

Must...stop...brain...from...imploding...i know i will play string with the cat to distract - all about the distractions and stubbon will. Thanks for all the well wishes. Next watch dexter to satisfy killing urges! Haha

sandmanCCL

When in doubt, masturbate. Best stress reliever I know of, personally.

In all seriousness, good on you man. It took my grandpa on his dying day (lung cancer) admonishing my uncle to quit that my uncle finally did.

Kitteh_On_A_Cloud

If there is one thing (amongst others, of course) I can thank my paranoid and overly worried parents for, then it is teaching me at a young age that drinking, smoking and drugs tend to ruin you and your body. I never smoked, tried drugs or alcohol and am perfectly fine with that. I cannot understand how people absolutely need coffee to get their engine running in the morning. I don't like to be physically dependent on any consumables either. Boring ol' me only drinks milk, fruit juice and water. I guess I'm the odd duck out here. XD

sarevok57

@Kitteh_On_A_Cloud im exactly the same way

Kitteh_On_A_Cloud

@sarevok57: And there's nothing wrong with it, although the occassional glass of wine can't do harm. The thing is, I dislike the taste of both coffee and alcohol, and when I don't like the taste, I don't drink it.
@ginger_hammer: I wish you a whole lot of perseverance into reaching your goal. Unlike John in @Drugar's article, I know you'll succeed!

Jalily

Good luck, @ginger_hammer!

ginger_hammer

Thanks above, well made it past day two. :-)

MedullaOblongata

Congratulations on your journey, and good luck! This is a fantastic choice to make! n_n

Ward

@ginger_hammer Smoking is their bread and butter. If you quit, well I guess they have to start a low carbohydrate diet.

rexreg

when you've completely cut tobacco out of your life, you'll need to find a replacement vegetable...

ARKdeEREH

I drank only caffiene with every meal during the last few weeks of school last year. When I finished finals I stopped drinking caffiene. The result was that I went to sleep Friday afternoon and woke up at 3am on Sunday, since my body had become accustomed to needing caffeine to stay awake.

ginger_hammer

Well my head feels like it has been roasted by some mind flayers, either that or same evil mage is trying mental domination on me. Sleeping is difficult but hopefully there isn't too much brain melt left. No pain no gain and all that.

Elzarath

Oohh dude this is awesome! Wished I had known earlier! Would have quit with you an been ya support buddy! Best of luck mate!!

Drugar

@Elzarath
You can still quit, you'll just be two days behind. The Hell Period lasts longer than two days though, so you can still share that.
No reason to not stop ;-)

ginger_hammer

@Elzarath Climb onboard the non-smoke bus and join me on the new journey!

I substituted my old cig breaks at work to check this forum instead. So far so good.

trinit

just wait until you get your sense of smell back up, and realize how bad the cigarette smoke, and consequentially you, stinks. i was very unpleasantly surprised...
i smoked for 8 years, and suddenly woke one morning with all my desire for smoking gone.
made a few drunken missteps since then, but otherwise clean for 5 years now

you can do it!

Gilgalahad

Good for you and don't give up. Better to do it when you're healthy rather than what happened to me. (The following is pretty graphic though i'll tone it down as much as possible). I was contemplating quiting ciggies and a week or so later after much procrastination i ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks with pneumonia and had to have a tube in my lungs to drain fluid. The specialist told me that often times, smokers get things like that because smoking ciggies screws up their immune systems. Long story short, it actually saved me from withdrawal as i was too busy fighting something more dangerous and potentially deadly than simply withdrawal. After my release i never smoked again(20 yrs ciggie free now)and my withdrawal was minimal and easily solved with Werthers.

Sorry for the length, i got started and couldn't stop lol. Bottom line, don't wait till it's almost too late like me. Hang in there, you can do it.