RE: Out For My Smoke Break Today I Decided To Quit Smoking Starting Now! - D00k13 Digest #355
Hey D00k13,
Good luck with the quiting. I have some advice which may help. Take any part of it that you think might be useful in your journey m8.
I've been through the giving up cigs thing b4 twice and it is a kicker for sure. Unfortunately, it often is ok for the first 3 days until the last of the chemical starts to leave the blood stream & that's when the real battle begins. Probably about a month to 6 weeks of really difficult cravings before they ease off somewhat.
What got me through was a combination of nicotine patches and daily exercise. The exercise is good for working out the anger and irritabiliy that comes with the cravings. I also found that giving up disturbed my sleep at first, I'd be up from 3am -7am so I used to go to the swimming pool first thing in the morning when it opened at 7am, swim for an hour and then go home for a few hours sleep before college.
I hope some of this is useful. I think the exercise thing is the most important. Psychologically you need to transfer the stress relieving properties that having a smoke can bring. The endorphin rush from exercise can help provide that outlet for some people. It worked for me.
It sounds like you've already got some gr8 ideas channeling the nervous energy that comes when you give up nicotine into hammering the content 🙂
Best of luck with it all m8
Thank you for the encouragement my friend.
Yeah that was exactly the kind of answers I was looking for, the personal experience with it so I have some idea what to expect. Good to know the first three days are the easiest that’s kind of what I thought even though I was told the opposite. I can’t say that I’ve ever really experienced a full on craving like some describe, in an odd way I am looking forward to know what that feeling is like 😅
So far I’m sticking with it but what I may do is go pick up some really low nicotine E juice if it gets too intense for me and just try to control my dosages so that I wean myself off same as what you did with the patch.
I guess we’ll see how I’m doing by Monday as I imagined I would be about when the cravings set in.
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