Quit smoking cold turkey, it's killing me

Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

I've quit smoking cold turkey twice before, both times for about 6 months before I started again.

Obviously being unemployed I knew it was going to become uneconomical to continue, so again, I went cold turkey and this time round it's terrible.

Headaches, legs aching at night, lack of sleep, stomach pains.

What the hell?

I'm on day 3 and hoping it stops being so shit quite quickly, there's only so long I can do 4 hours sleep a night.

hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

You just have to stop thinking about fags, luv Cool

Actually ... although I'm much happier now I've given up, I'm starting to wonder if I ought to take it up again, as my sense of smell is now SO heightened, that its quite distressing. There was a Nigerian man on the train this morning who absolutely stunk of fish, it was filthy disgusting smelling, not like minge-fish smell, just like ghastly cooked-fish smell, urgh, made me think of fish-heads.
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

That's the real man's way of giving up. Thumbs Up

Stick with it, the shit will pass.
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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Will last for about a week. You'll be fine.
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Yeah ... patches are for pussies.
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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Patches make it worse. I went cold turkey and went through all that pain. Gobbed pain killers most the time and felt crap. Its gone now. Lasted a few weeks. I can breath better, I dont use my inhalers really at all now. I feel calmer, not pumped up all the time. But it does make you feel tired. I miss that adrenaline buzz sometimes and eat like a horse Crying or Very sad

it does get better as it goes along, just get past that rotten feeling and you will be fine.
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Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Yeah I've never believed in patches since you're just extending the addiction, this pain has just come as a bit of surprise since both other times there was none of it. Well, I constantly wanted a fag but I never had stomach cramps or legs the ached so bad I can't get comfy in bed.

It's all gay.

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pyx_e · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Karma :

Patches work.

If you stick them over your mouth.

Otherwise: keep it up! Never understood giving up a drug my taking more of it.
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Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Turns out the stomach cramps were my bodys way of telling me that I can no longer skip breakfast, apparently, fags provided my body with the sugar it needed until lunch, without them my insides shit themselves.

Now it's just the sore legs that need to fuck off.

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D O G · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Karma :

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Read Allan Carr's 'The Only Way to Stop Smoking'.

I don't know anyone who hasn't been successful in stopping after reading it, myself included.

McGee · O RLY? Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Karma :

Watch this
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phantomtek · Lil Joe Tek Joined: 20 May 2005 Karma :

Have some heroin, once you've finished kicking that you won't be addicted to smoking at all. Thumbs Up

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swampy · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Karma :

If its any help to anyone, I've just given up using a drug called Champix which you can get from the GP every 2 weeks. Its really helped me where nicotine replacement hasn't (I've tried patches, gum and sublingual tablets in the past). There were a few side effects for the first week or so (headaches and nausea mainly), but if you man up and take it, the effects become managable pretty quickly. Prior to this I was a dyed in the wool 20 year smoker at 20 + a day, so its come as a pleasant surprise how easy its been to stay of the cigs even though I've now stopped taking tablets as well.. Thumbs Up

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