Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

[Dumpster 0]

OK - Day Three without nicotine - (cigarettes) Around noon today I felt like I was about to start climbing out of my skin - Really weird sensation that lasted about five minutes.

Any other symptoms?? I haven't had the urge to kill anyone (yet), and my appetite has actually decreased a little.....

BTW - I stopped cold turkey on Sunday. Got really tired of it.

Easy Does It

[AggieDave 6]

I quit smoking nearly two months ago. I had the skin crawling thing once or twice, but so far it was just really intense cravings. Especially after lifting weights and after eating. So far so good, but really it comes down to motivation. A promise is a promise and I needed to quit anyways.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[BillyVance 34]

Good for you guys. Keep it up. And here's a good reminder to do so:

This past weekend I joined my dad for a long trip up to Indiana for the burial services of his first cousin. I did not know the cause of her death, but hospice was her last stop, and she'd been a smoker for a long time. On the way back, we stopped by to visit his old college buddy, whose kids I used to play with on visits during Thanksgiving week growing up. He too, smoked for years. It was a bit of a shock to see him carrying an oxygen tank with a hose to his nose and taking rapid shallow breaths. Then again, it was not really a big surprise.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[JohnDeere 0]

My best friend of all time passed at the age of 29 about 1.5 years ago from lung cancer. We were friends from school and both smoked by age of 14. I have finally quite smoking but should have done it along time ago. My nephew passed about a 2 mounth ago from cancer at the age of 21 It was colon cancer, but still just another reason to not help cause any more health issues

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You ignorant fool! Checks are for workers!

[JackC 0]

Boredom. I seriously underestimated how much of a passtime smoking is.

[micduran 0]

The sensation is because now you have enough oxygen so your blood can flow all the way to the ends of your veins.
I had the same thing. My doctor explained it in more medical terms but that was the basic reason.
Just wait until your full sense of smell returns.

Whatever happens it is worth it. Life is so much easier when you don't smoke.

Stay strong, good luck

Be patient with the faults of others; they have to be patient with yours.

[Dumpster 0]

Ah! Thats it!! Blood flow! Cool!
I'm already feeling better and it's Day Four now. Is it me or do I have seem to have more energy? I feel sharper mentally, too. Could that be from the lack of carbon monoxide in my blood? (And a whole host of other weird chemicals?)

Speaking of other weird chemicals, I know alot of them collect in different places on the body - I've been smoking for about 28 to 30 years - Without getting too carried away, is there a method, regimen, whatever to help flush all that crap out of my system?

Thanks everyone for your support - It's been great!

Easy Does It

[skydiverbry 0]

I'm at 38 days!!
Still want to kill something
Still crawling out of my skin
Still have the urge to....wait....maybe it wasn't the nicotine withdrawls after all


But I do feel alot healthier
Bry

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D.S.#13(Dudeist Skdiver)

[BillyVance 34]

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Without getting too carried away, is there a method, regimen, whatever to help flush all that crap out of my system?

Not that I know of. Nicotine has its own schedule, though it's not just that, most of the damage done to you is from the smoke and chemical byproducts. That you can easily spend a life-time recovering from, if you haven't gone past the point of no recovery.

It's one of those habits that's best never to start in the first place.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[GaVak 0]

Niacin and Vitiman C. You can do something called a 'Niacin Flush'. Essentially, you take 100-200mg of Nician. I highly suggest starting at 100 and going up only if it doesn't work. (I started at 500, and it was a bit intense.)

After about 15-20 minutes of taking the niacin the capilaries in your skin will widen. This will give you a red 'flush' as blood and nutrients to get to the hardest to reach areas in your skin. It will also itch like crazy as all the toxins from those same areas are cleaned out.

The info at the bottom of this page explains it better than I can: http://www.oralchelation.com/faq/answers24.htm

Vitiman C is good because the sila in your lungs will start to become more mobile and will start to repair themselves. You need plenty of Vitiman C to help with this cell repair.

~Gav

Life doesn't need reasons, just participants.

D.S.#21

[Dumpster 0]

Cool - Will check it out - The Vitamin C makes total sense -
Now I'm getting way hungry. Not good. But my energy levels are way up today. Very cool!!!

Easy Does It

[nerd137 0]

I used nicotine gum when I quit. Helped a lot. Just don't expect quite the same relief as you'd get from a cigarette.

The best way I can describe my withdrawal symptoms is this way: it was like having to piss REALLY bad, but being told not to go to the bathroom; eventually the sensation will go away. So just imagine walking around with a bladder on the verge of explosion for 6 to 12 weeks... and that's pretty much how I felt.